<div align="justify">Karnataka bowlers, led by Ronit More (4/20), produced a disciplined effort to drub Saurashtra by 73 runs for their third straight victory in the Vijay Hazare Trophy here on Tuesday. <br /><br />In their Group D encounter, Karnataka, put into bat, were bowled out for a modest 201 in 47.1 overs. Mayank Agarwal top scored with 89 and forged a fifth-wicket stand of 49 runs with Stuart Binny (32). Kushang Patel impressed for Saurashtra with figures of four for 36 while Chirag Jani bagged three for 40. <br /><br />In response, Saurashtra lost wickets at regular intervals and were bundled out for 128 runs. More’s fine performance was complemented well by Binny (2/37) and Prasidh Krishna (2/19). <br /><br />Brief scores: Group A: At Delhi: Assam: 207 all out in 48.2 overs (Kunal Saikia 29, Arun Karthik 56, Jamaluddin Syed Mohammad 53, Amit Sinha 26; Basant Mohanty 5-26, Deepak Behera 3-47, Dhiraj Singh 2-36) lt to Odisha: 213/1 in 35.3 overs (Anurag Sarangi 104, Govinda Poddar 100 n.o.). Odisha: 4; Assam: 0.<br /><br />Baroda: 249 all out in 48.3 overs (Aditya Waghmode 54, Krunal Pandya 78, Irfan Pathan 37; Sandeep Sharma 2-40, Siddharth Kaul 3-57, Baltej Singh 4-47) bt Punjab: 174 all out in 40.4 overs (Mandeep Singh 43, Gurkeerat Singh 62; Hardik Pandya 3-26, Soaeb Tai 3-36, Atit Sheth 2-24). Baroda: 4; Punjab: 0.<br /><br />Railways: 199 all out in 41.4 overs (Asad Pathan 46, Manjeet Singh 54; Akshay Karnewar 3-32, Ravikumar Thakur 2-47) lt to Vidarbha: 200/2 in 45.2 overs (Faiz Fazal 53, Jitesh Sharma 84, Ganesh Satish 36). Vidarbha: 4; Railways: 0. <br /><br />Group B: At Cuttack: Maharashtra: 367/8 in 50 overs (Vijay Zol 35, Naushad Shaikh 52, Kedar Jadhav 113, Nikhil Naik 63, Ankit Bawne 29; Kulwant Khejroliya 2-35, Navdeep Saini 2-76, Nitish Rana 2-42) bt Delhi: 172 all out in 33.4 overs (Gautam Gambhir 53, Milind Kumar 38; Pradeep Dadhe 2-48, Jagdish Zope 5-19). Maharashtra: 4; Delhi: 0. <br />Himachal Pradesh: 216 all out in 49.5 overs (Robin Bist 57, Ankit Kaushik 62, Pankaj Jaiswal 30; A Aswin Crist 5-31, Antony Das 2-64) lt to Tamil Nadu: 217/2 in 42.2 overs (Kaushik Gandhi 107 not out, Baba Aparajith 52, Dinesh Karthik 45; Akshay Chauhan 2-39). Tamil Nadu: 4; Himachal Pradesh: 0. <br /><br />At Bhubaneswar: Uttar Pradesh: 197 all out in 41.2 overs (Sarfaraz Khan 100; Abhijit Sarkar 3-14, Ajoy Sarkar 4-47, Udiyan Bose 2-31) lt to Tripura: 198/8 in 43.2 overs (Udiyan Bose 45, Smit Patel 53, Gurinder Singh 64 not out; Ankit Rajpoot 2-28, Kuldeep Yadav 2-32, Piyush Chawla 3-37). Tripura: 4; Uttar Pradesh: 0. <br /><br />Group C: At Chennai: Goa: 213/9 in 50 overs (Sumiran Amonkar 30, Amogh Sunil Desai 49, Saurabh Dandekar 32; Kanishk Seth 3-50, Aamir Gani 2-48) lt to Bengal: 214/2 in 35.5 overs (Abhimanyu Easwaran 68 not out, Manjot Tiwary 116 not out). Bengal: 4; Goa: 0. <br /><br />Rajasthan: 183 all out in 47 overs (Arjit Gupta 69, KL Nagarkoti 56 n.o.; Ishwar Chaudhary 2-20, Jasprit Bumrah 2-38, Chirag Parmar 2-25) bt Gujarat: 169 all out in 43.1 overs (Samit Gohel 28, Bharghav Merai 51, Rujul Bhatt 49; Pankaj Singh 3-23, Nathu Singh 2-31, KL Nagarkoti 3-30). Rajasthan: 4; Gujarat: 0. <br /><br />Madhya Pradesh: 214 all out in 45.1 overs (Akit Dane 46, Sohraab Dhaliwal 51; Shardul Thakur 3-27) bt Mumbai: 134 all out in 38.4 overs (Chandrakant Sakure 5-25, Saransh Jain 3-30). Madhya Pradesh: 4; Mumbai: 0. <br /><br />Group D: At Kalyani: Services: 276/9 in 50 overs (Gaurav Kochar 50, Nakul Verma 48, Abhijit Salvi 31, Shamsher Yadav 54 n.o., Rahul Singh 40; Shahbaz Nadeem 3-52, Rahul Shukla 2-58) lt to Jharkhand: 279/3 in 46.2 overs (Ishan Kishan 33, Saurabh Tiwary 102 n.o., Ishant Jaggi 116 n.o.). Jharkhand: 4 points; Services: 0.<br /><br />At Kolkata: Chhattisgarh: 235/9 in 50 overs (Amandeep Khare 57, Abhimanyu Chauhan 90 n.o., Ashutosh Singh 31; Mohammed Mudhasir 6-33) bt Jammu & Kashmir: 231 all out in 48.2 overs (Shubham Khajuria 26, Parvez Rasool 51, Puneet Bisht 68; Pankaj Rao 4-35). Chhattisgarh: 4; Jammu & Kashmir: 0.<br /><br />Karnataka: 201 in 47.1 overs (Mayank Agarwal 89, Stuart Binny 31; Jaydev Unadkat 2-38, Kushang Patel 4-36, Chirag Jani 3-40) bt Saurashtra: 128 all out in 36.2 overs (Jaydev Shah 38, Chirag Jani 25, Shaurya Sanandia 31 n.o.; Ronit More 4-20, Stuart Binny 2-37, Prasidh Krishna 2-19). Karnataka: 4; Saurashtra: 0.</div>
<div align="justify">Karnataka bowlers, led by Ronit More (4/20), produced a disciplined effort to drub Saurashtra by 73 runs for their third straight victory in the Vijay Hazare Trophy here on Tuesday. <br /><br />In their Group D encounter, Karnataka, put into bat, were bowled out for a modest 201 in 47.1 overs. Mayank Agarwal top scored with 89 and forged a fifth-wicket stand of 49 runs with Stuart Binny (32). Kushang Patel impressed for Saurashtra with figures of four for 36 while Chirag Jani bagged three for 40. <br /><br />In response, Saurashtra lost wickets at regular intervals and were bundled out for 128 runs. More’s fine performance was complemented well by Binny (2/37) and Prasidh Krishna (2/19). <br /><br />Brief scores: Group A: At Delhi: Assam: 207 all out in 48.2 overs (Kunal Saikia 29, Arun Karthik 56, Jamaluddin Syed Mohammad 53, Amit Sinha 26; Basant Mohanty 5-26, Deepak Behera 3-47, Dhiraj Singh 2-36) lt to Odisha: 213/1 in 35.3 overs (Anurag Sarangi 104, Govinda Poddar 100 n.o.). Odisha: 4; Assam: 0.<br /><br />Baroda: 249 all out in 48.3 overs (Aditya Waghmode 54, Krunal Pandya 78, Irfan Pathan 37; Sandeep Sharma 2-40, Siddharth Kaul 3-57, Baltej Singh 4-47) bt Punjab: 174 all out in 40.4 overs (Mandeep Singh 43, Gurkeerat Singh 62; Hardik Pandya 3-26, Soaeb Tai 3-36, Atit Sheth 2-24). Baroda: 4; Punjab: 0.<br /><br />Railways: 199 all out in 41.4 overs (Asad Pathan 46, Manjeet Singh 54; Akshay Karnewar 3-32, Ravikumar Thakur 2-47) lt to Vidarbha: 200/2 in 45.2 overs (Faiz Fazal 53, Jitesh Sharma 84, Ganesh Satish 36). Vidarbha: 4; Railways: 0. <br /><br />Group B: At Cuttack: Maharashtra: 367/8 in 50 overs (Vijay Zol 35, Naushad Shaikh 52, Kedar Jadhav 113, Nikhil Naik 63, Ankit Bawne 29; Kulwant Khejroliya 2-35, Navdeep Saini 2-76, Nitish Rana 2-42) bt Delhi: 172 all out in 33.4 overs (Gautam Gambhir 53, Milind Kumar 38; Pradeep Dadhe 2-48, Jagdish Zope 5-19). Maharashtra: 4; Delhi: 0. <br />Himachal Pradesh: 216 all out in 49.5 overs (Robin Bist 57, Ankit Kaushik 62, Pankaj Jaiswal 30; A Aswin Crist 5-31, Antony Das 2-64) lt to Tamil Nadu: 217/2 in 42.2 overs (Kaushik Gandhi 107 not out, Baba Aparajith 52, Dinesh Karthik 45; Akshay Chauhan 2-39). Tamil Nadu: 4; Himachal Pradesh: 0. <br /><br />At Bhubaneswar: Uttar Pradesh: 197 all out in 41.2 overs (Sarfaraz Khan 100; Abhijit Sarkar 3-14, Ajoy Sarkar 4-47, Udiyan Bose 2-31) lt to Tripura: 198/8 in 43.2 overs (Udiyan Bose 45, Smit Patel 53, Gurinder Singh 64 not out; Ankit Rajpoot 2-28, Kuldeep Yadav 2-32, Piyush Chawla 3-37). Tripura: 4; Uttar Pradesh: 0. <br /><br />Group C: At Chennai: Goa: 213/9 in 50 overs (Sumiran Amonkar 30, Amogh Sunil Desai 49, Saurabh Dandekar 32; Kanishk Seth 3-50, Aamir Gani 2-48) lt to Bengal: 214/2 in 35.5 overs (Abhimanyu Easwaran 68 not out, Manjot Tiwary 116 not out). Bengal: 4; Goa: 0. <br /><br />Rajasthan: 183 all out in 47 overs (Arjit Gupta 69, KL Nagarkoti 56 n.o.; Ishwar Chaudhary 2-20, Jasprit Bumrah 2-38, Chirag Parmar 2-25) bt Gujarat: 169 all out in 43.1 overs (Samit Gohel 28, Bharghav Merai 51, Rujul Bhatt 49; Pankaj Singh 3-23, Nathu Singh 2-31, KL Nagarkoti 3-30). Rajasthan: 4; Gujarat: 0. <br /><br />Madhya Pradesh: 214 all out in 45.1 overs (Akit Dane 46, Sohraab Dhaliwal 51; Shardul Thakur 3-27) bt Mumbai: 134 all out in 38.4 overs (Chandrakant Sakure 5-25, Saransh Jain 3-30). Madhya Pradesh: 4; Mumbai: 0. <br /><br />Group D: At Kalyani: Services: 276/9 in 50 overs (Gaurav Kochar 50, Nakul Verma 48, Abhijit Salvi 31, Shamsher Yadav 54 n.o., Rahul Singh 40; Shahbaz Nadeem 3-52, Rahul Shukla 2-58) lt to Jharkhand: 279/3 in 46.2 overs (Ishan Kishan 33, Saurabh Tiwary 102 n.o., Ishant Jaggi 116 n.o.). Jharkhand: 4 points; Services: 0.<br /><br />At Kolkata: Chhattisgarh: 235/9 in 50 overs (Amandeep Khare 57, Abhimanyu Chauhan 90 n.o., Ashutosh Singh 31; Mohammed Mudhasir 6-33) bt Jammu & Kashmir: 231 all out in 48.2 overs (Shubham Khajuria 26, Parvez Rasool 51, Puneet Bisht 68; Pankaj Rao 4-35). Chhattisgarh: 4; Jammu & Kashmir: 0.<br /><br />Karnataka: 201 in 47.1 overs (Mayank Agarwal 89, Stuart Binny 31; Jaydev Unadkat 2-38, Kushang Patel 4-36, Chirag Jani 3-40) bt Saurashtra: 128 all out in 36.2 overs (Jaydev Shah 38, Chirag Jani 25, Shaurya Sanandia 31 n.o.; Ronit More 4-20, Stuart Binny 2-37, Prasidh Krishna 2-19). Karnataka: 4; Saurashtra: 0.</div>
