Vijay Hazare Trophy HIGHLIGHTS, Quarterfinals: Indrajith ton helps TN beat Mumbai; Haryana edges Bengal; Rajasthan sets Karnataka semi

Semifinal 1: Tamil Nadu vs Haryana - December 13, Wednesday

Semifinal 2: Karnataka vs Rajasthan - December 14, Thursday

Final: December 16, Saturday

Rahul Tewatia braves a middle-order wobble to remain unbeaten again and lead Haryana over the line by four wickets. Haryana will take on Tamil Nadu in the first semifinal as we mark a close on the quarterfinals. 

Ishan Porel comes around the wicket and slides the ball in to Tewatia’s pads as he misses out on a swipe across the line. The umpire raises his finger with the scores level. Tewatia starts to walk back but takes a review anyway. And it is not a bad call anyway as the decision is overturned with the impact outside off-stump. Tewatia rushes back from the boundary to the centre. 

Nishant Sindhu slaps a short ball straight to mid-wicket. He falls for 27 as Kaif strikes. 

Baba Indrajith brings up his second List A hundred and Tamil Nadu’s comprehensive seven-wicket win with a four. Tamil Nadu marks its spot in Wednesday’s first semifinal.

Ankit Kumar falls for a run-a-ball 102 as Shahbaz finds a vital breakthrough. Can Bengal still a force a match of this?

R Samarth’s unbeaten 72 leads Karnataka to a seven-wicket win to seal the semifinal spot. Mayank Agarwal’s men will take on Rajasthan in the second semifinal on Thursday. 

Two days after recording its highest List A total, Kerala registers its second-lowest List A score (67) in the Vijay Hazare Trophy quarterfinal. Superb from the Rajasthan seamers in a 200-run win, led by Aniket Choudhary’s third consecutive four-wicket haul.

Sachin Baby falls for 28 and that must signal the end for Kerala. It remains to be seen if Vishnu Vinod will be able to take the field after retiring hurt early on

Nikin Jose falls against the run of play. Umesh Yadav dismisses him caught-behind for 31.

Basil is castled by Aniket for his fourth wicket. Kerala loses its eight wicket. Silver lining is that it has crossed its lowest ever VHT score of 49 against Karnataka in 2015.

Hundred up for Haryana in the chase of 227. Ankit Kumar completes his fifty. Captain Menaria unbeaten on 33 at the other end. 

Mohit Avasthi gets Aparajith for 45. Nidhish Rajagopal follows soon after for 1, bowled by Tanush Kotian. TN still need 125 runs to win. 

Arafat Khan removes Vaishakh Chandran first ball to further derail Kerala’s chase. Basil Thampi manages to thwart the hattrick.

Akhil Scaria’s stay at the crease ends after just two balls. Kerala in danger of being folded for a paltry score here.

Abdul Bazith departs for 1 off 17 balls. Wicket number 3 for Aniket Choudhary. 

Ankit Kumar and Ashok Menaria complete a 50-run stand to rebuild the innings after two early wickets. 

Mayank Agarwal perishes after completing his fifty. He is trapped in front by offie Harsh Dubey. Nikin Jose joins Samarth at the crease.

From bad to worse for Kerala. Shreyas Gopal is dismissed for 0. Aniket picks his second wicket.

Karnataka motors on in the chase versus Vidarbha. Samarth and Mayank playing a slow but solid innings so far.

Vishnu Vinod has retired hurt after facing just one ball. Shreyas Gopal comes in to bat.

More trouble for Kerala as captain Kunnummal perishes for 11 off 21 balls. Aniket Choudhary with the wicket. Crisis men Sachin Baby and Vishnu Vinod at the crease. 

Dhruva: N. Jagadeesan is caught behind trying to cut square of the wicket. Tamil Nadu 50/1 in the 12th over. Indrajith joins Aparajith.

Khaleel Ahmed removes Mohammed Azharuddeen for 3. Kerala in a bit of trouble. 

Vidarbha in urgent need of wickets as Karnataka races to 41 within 12 overs in the chase of 174. 

Openers B Aparajith and N Jagadeesan give TN a strong start against Mumbai.

Yuvraj Singh and Himanshu Rana are dismissed early for Haryana. Mohammed Kaif and Ishan Porel with the wickets. Captain Ashok Menaria walks in at number 4.

Centurion from the previous game Krishna Prasad is dismissed for 7 off 16 balls. Early setback for team in the chase of 268.

Lomror smashes Akhin for 18 in the last over. He finsihes on 122 off 114 balls. Kerala with some work to do to chase this down.

Dhruva: Mumbai 227 all out. Three wickets each for Sai Kishore and Varun. Mulani and Mohit Avasthi probably had the most sensible partnership of the innings. TN should get this.

Shahbaz holes out to long off right after completing his century. He has stood up and delivered when his team required. Tewatia with the wicket.

Ishan Porel is bowled first ball trying to tonk one down the ground. Bengal finishes on 225.

Mahipal Lomror brings up his century with a four. Just 106 balls to breach the thre-figure mark.

Lomror running out of partners as Rahul Chahar is sent back for four by Basil Thampi.

Natarajan breaks the 35-run partnership. Shams Mulani is dismissed for 27 off 35. 

Two in a trice for Rajasthan as Ajay Kookna is dismissed by Akhil Scaria. Lomror batting on 94 at the other end.

Akhin removes Rathore for 66 off 52 balls. Third wicket for him. Kerala finally manages to break the 116-run stand.

Mohammed Kaif is cleaned up by Yuzvendra Chahal for 2. Fourth wicket for Chahal. 

Vyshak dismisses Yash Thakur for 1 off 6 balls to pick his fourth wicket as Vidarbha folds for 173.

Kunal Rathore brings up his fifty with a six. The partnership with Lomror is now 97.

Chahal gets the wicket of Pramanik for 21 off just 19 balls. Third wicket off the innings for the wrist spinner. Mohammed Kaif in at 9 and he is welcomed with a no-ball. Just a single off the free hit.

The last recognized batter Shubham Dubey is dismissed for 41 off 59 balls by Vyshak. Yash Thakur joins Umesh Yadav at the crease.

Dhruva: Varun Chakravarthy cleans up Tanush Kotian for 1. Third wicket for the spinner.

Fifty up for Shahbaz Ahmed. Pradipta Pramanik giving good support at the other end as Bengal look to put up competitive total with ten overs left. 

Fifty partnership up between Mahipal Lomror and Kunal Rathore at almost run a ball. Lomror currently batting on 72. 

Bhandage gets his second wicket. Nalkande falls for a 25-ball 20. 

Mahipal Lomror notches up a half-century as he continues to lead the attack against Kerala.

Dhruva: Dube and Prasad Pawar looking solid. Dube has hit two sixes and has been severe down the ground. He has looked solid in defence too. 

Bengal 120/5 in 33 overs vs Haryana

Vidarbha 126/7 in 33 overs vs Karnataka

Mumbai 141/4 in 32 overs vs Tamil Nadu

Rajasthan 113/4 in 31 overs vs Kerala

Jagadeesha Suchith gets two wickets in two balls as Yash Kadam and Akshay Karnewar fall in succession. 

Vaisakh Chandran removes Karan Lamba for 9. Another catch for skipper Rohan Kunnummal as Kerala finds its fourth wicket.

Mahipal Lomror leads the recovery for Rajasthan. He has struck two fours and as many maximums to move into the 40s.

Chahal snaps up another with the quicker one. He zips in the slider and it hits flush on Ritwik’s pads. Second wicket for the leggie.

Shreyas Gopal finds the big wicket for Kerala. He traps Rajasthan skipper Deepak Hooda leg-before for 13.

Akshay Wadkar’s vigil is undone by Manoj Bhandage. He is trapped leg-before for 32 off 41 deliveries. 

Nishant Sindhu strikes for Haryana. Abhishek Porel throws away a start and Bengal finds itself in a rough spot now.

Yuzvendra Chahal strikes with his third ball. He puts Anustup Majumdar in trouble and induces a tame chip over the circle to long-on. Big blow for Bengal.

Bengal 67/2 in 15 overs vs Haryana

Vidarbha 57/4 in 15 overs vs Karnataka

Mumbai 73/3 in 18 overs vs Tamil Nadu

Rajasthan 53/2 in 14 overs vs Kerala

Dhruva: Rahane is gone as Varun snaps him up. The ball looped up as he pressed forward to defend and Karthik caught it in front of the stumps. Mumbai 51/3. 

Koushik has his first wicket. Harsh Dubey’s rearguard ends for 1 off 14 deliveries.

Akhin Sathar redeems himself with two wickets in the over. He removes Chauhan as well for 18. Skipper Deepak Hooda walks in.

Abhishek Porel and Sudip Gharami have played some delectable strokes to rebuild Bengal from the early jolt against Haryana.

Bista and Tamore have stabilised the innings for Mumbai and taken the side to 50 in 13 overs.

Akhin finds the breakthrough for Kerala. He removes Abhijeet Tomar for 15 off 27 balls.

Tomar and Chauhan build a stable foundation for Rajasthan in the opening PowerPlay. Six fours between them with Akhin Sathar going for 22 in his four overs.

Dhruva: Bista and Hardik Tamore have looked at ease. Varun replaces Siddharth in the attack. 

Former Karnataka batter Karun Nair is castled by Vyshak for five off three deliveries. Karnataka takes the upper hand within the first PowerPlay. 

Vyshak gets the second wicket for Karnataka. Mokhade falls for a three-ball duck. Vidarbha in early trouble. 

First wicket for Karnataka. It comes off a run out and captain Atharva Taide is dismissed by his counterpart Mayank Agarwal. 

Dhruva: Natarajan started well but has strayed a bit on the pads now. Spinner Siddharth gets Divyaansh in the second over.

Skipper Atharva Taide and Akshay Wadkar start smoothly against Karnataka’s new-ball attack of Koushik and Vysakh.

Sumit finds the first wicket for Haryana. A tame dismissal for Ranjot as he brushes a ball sliding down leg to the keeper. 

Karthik starts with spin from M Siddarth at the other end and he dismisses Divyaansh for a six-ball duck in the second over. Top start for Tamil Nadu.

Basil Thampi starts off with a maiden. Abhijeet Tomar and RB Chauhan open for Rajasthan.

T Natarajan starts off with a maiden over against the Mumbai batters.

Anshul Kamboj opens the bowling for Haryana. Eight runs come off the first over after Anshul finds the outside edge off Bengal’s Ranjot Khaira from the last ball of the over. It trickles past first-slip down to third for a single. 

Rajasthan XI: AA Khan, AB Kookna, AV Choudhary, Abhijeet Tomar, Deepak Hooda (c), KS Rathore (wk), Karan Lamba, Mahipal Lomror, RB Chauhan, Rahul Chahar, Khaleel Ahmed

Kerala XI: Rohan Kunnummal (c), Krishna Prasad, Md. Azharuddeen (wk), Vishnu Vinod, Sachin Baby, Akhil Scaria, Abdul Basith, Shreyas Gopal, Akhil Scaria, Akhin Sathar, Basil Thampi

Mumbai XI: Ajinkya Rahane, Dhawal Kulkarni, Divyaansh, Hardik Tamore, Jay Bista, Mohit Avasthi, PY Pawar (wk), Royston Dias, Shams Mulani, Shivam Dube, Tanush Kotian.

Tamil Nadu XI: Baba Indrajith, Baba Aparajith, Dinesh Karthik (c, wk), M Siddarth, N Jagadeesan, Nidhish Rajagopal, Sai Kishore, Shahrukh Khan, T Natarajan, Varun C, Vijay Shankar

Karnataka XI: Mayank Agarwal, R Samarth, Nikin Jose, Abhinav Manohar, Manish Pandey, Manoj Bhandage, KL Shrijith (wk), K Gowtham, J Suchith, V Koushik, V Vyshak.

Vidarbha XI: A Karnewar, A Mokhade, Akshay Wadkar (wk), Atharva Taide, Darshan Nalkande, Harsh Dubey, Karun Nair, SB Dubey, Umesh Yadav, Yash Thakur, Yash Kadam

• Haryana vs Bengal: Haryana won the toss and opted to field
• Karnataka vs Vidarbha: Karnataka won the toss and opted to field
• Mumbai vs TN: Mumbai won the toss and opted to bat
• Rajasthan vs Kerala: Kerala won the toss and opted to field

Karnataka

• Beat J&K by 222 runs
• Beat Uttarakhand by 52 runs
• Beat Delhi by six wickets
• Beat Bihar by seven wickets
• Beat Chandigarh by 22 runs
• Lost to Haryana by five wickets
• Beat Mizoram by six wickets

Vidarbha

• Beat Meghalaya by 32 runs
• Beat Manipur by eight wickets
• Beat Maharashtra by five wickets
• Beat Jharkhand by 10 wickets
• Beat Chhattisgarh by nine runs
• Lost to Hyderabad by 30 runs
• Beat Services by 15 runs

Rajasthan

• Beat Arunachal Pradesh by 161 runs
• Beat Gujarat by five wickets
• Beat Uttar Pradesh by 60 runs
• Beat Andhra by 38 runs
• Beat Himachal Pradesh by 43 runs
• Beat Assam by eight wickets

Kerala

• Beat Saurashtra by three wickets
• Lost to Mumbai by eight wickets
• Beat Odisha by 78 runs
• Beat Tripura by 119 runs
• Beat Sikkim by seven wickets
• Beat Puducherry by six wickets
• Lost to Railways by 18 runs
• Beat Maharashtra by 153 runs

At 38, Dinesh Karthik is still leading Tamil Nadu’s quest for another white-ball title, and he will be without the services of Sai Sudharsan and Pradosh Ranjan Paul, who are touring South Africa, when his side takes on 41-time Ranji Trophy champion Mumbai in the Vijay Hazare Trophy (VHT) quarterfinal at the Sanosara Cricket Ground ‘B’ here on Monday. READ MORE

Haryana - Road to QFs

• Beat Uttarakhand by six wickets
• Beat Bihar by 10 wickets
• Beat Chandigarh by 84 runs
• Beat Mizoram by 190 runs
• Beat Delhi by 53 runs
• Beat Karnataka by five wickets
• Beat J&K by four wickets

Bengal - Road to QFs

• Beat Nagaland by nine wickets
• Beat Baroda by 95 runs
• Lost to Tamil Nadu by five wickets
• Beat Madhya Pradesh by 193 runs
• Beat by Goa by eight wickets
• Beat Punjab by 52 runs
• Beat Gujarat by eight wickets

• Quarterfinal 1: Haryana vs Bengal
• Quarterfinal 2: Rajasthan vs Kerala
• Quarterfinal 3: Karnataka vs Vidarbha
• Quarterfinal 4: Mumbai vs Tamil Nadu