Vijay Hazare Trophy 2018: Hooda, Unadkat shine as Delhi, Karnataka suffer shock defeats

Despite a few rain-truncated games, the action continued in the Vijay Hazare Trophy, with a couple of high-scoring games and tight finishes lighting up the day. Delhi lost their first game of the tournament, losing out to Odisha in a tight game despite an unlikely 10th wicket stand between Suboth Bhati and Navdeep Saini.

Elsewhere, out of favour India pacer Jaydev Unadkat took a four-wicket haul in Saurashtra's win, while CSK and IPL player Ankush Bains starred with an unbeaten 173 for Himachal Pradesh.

Karnataka skittled to yet another loss, despite a star-studded line-up, to hand Baroda a win.

Here's the summary of the day's action:

Group A

Karun Nair

Karnataka 237 (R Samarth 102, A Sheth 4/42) lost to Baroda 230/3 (K Devdhar 123, Hooda 62)

Karnataka's hopes of qualifying for the quarterfinals took another hit as they lost to Baroda in a rain-affected game in Bangalore. Despite R Samarth's century, Karnataka managed only 237, a target that was reduced to 227 from 47 overs for Baroda.

Kedar Devdhar's scintillating ton and Deepak Hooda's 62 ensured that the side won the match inside 44 overs.

Vidarbha 297/7 (A Taide 148, F Fazal 91) lost to Himachal Pradesh 298/6 (A Bains 173*, P Khanduri 63)

Railways 180 (M Devdhar 64, A Sanklecha 2/16) lost to Maharashtra 186/3 (R Gaikwad 84, A Yadav 2/39)

Group B

Gambhir's Delhi lost their game against Odisha

Madhya Pradesh 136 (SS Jain 32, J Unadkat 4/23) lost to Saurashtra 137/3 (Pujara 36)

Odisha 249/4 (B Samantray 63, S Singh 1/27) beat Delhi 240 (G Gambhir 44, D Bhera 2/25)

Odisha edged past Delhi in a closely fought Group B encounter at Delhi. The match was reduced to 44 overs a side. 4 of the top 5 Odisha batsmen posted fifties, taking their side close to 250. In reply, Gambhir held fort from one end even as wickets tumbled at the other.

Rishabh Pant gave a brief glimmer of hope in the middle and so did S Bhati, but the rest of the batsmen couldn't rise to the occasion.

Chattisgarh 248/8 (A Singh 110, D Siva Kumar 2/42) lost to Andhra 249/8 (K Sharma 55, P Rao 2/49)

Plate

Vineet Saxena scored his second fifty of the tournament

Mizoram 252/6 (T Kohli 113, P Tamang 3/62) beat Sikkim 210 (P Tamang 47, S Khadir 4/35)

Taruwar Kohli carried on his good form by hitting his second century of this Vijay Hazare Trophy, helping his side notch up an easy win over Sikkim.

Plazor Tamang took three wickets and was the highest run-getter for his team but his efforts couldn't take his side over the line.

Uttarakhand 127/1 (V Saxena 52) beat Manipur 125 (Y Singh 76, S Rana 3/27)

Bihar 211/9 (A Gautam 40, G Singh 2/32) beat Meghalaya 103 (Y Nagar 22, SS Quadri 5/22)