In the Ranji Trophy quarterfinals Delhi will take on Madhya Pradesh while Gujarat clash with Bengal. Kerala will be up against Vidarbha, while Karnataka have set-up meeting with Mumbai.
Karnataka, Delhi, Gujarat, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Mumbai, Vidarbha and Bengal have made it to the quarterfinals of the Ranji Trophy 2017-18. The last round of group fixtures of the Ranji Trophy concluded on Tuesday and the eight quarterfinalists have been decided.
In the quarterfinals Delhi will take on Madhya Pradesh while Gujarat clash with Bengal. Kerala will be up against Vidarbha, while Karnataka have set-up a mouth-watering clash with Mumbai. The line-up knockout matches will be played from December 7 to 11. The match between Mumbai and Karnataka will be telecast live.
Quarterfinals line-up:
Gujarat v Bengal in Jaipur
Delhi v MPCA in Vijaywada
Kerala v Vidarbha in Surat
Karnataka v Mumbai in Nagpur
Here is are the highlights of last day of group fixtures of the Ranji Trophy.
Group A
Delhi, who finished second in Group A after their game against Hyderabad ended in a draw, will meet Madhya Pradesh in their last-eight clash. Delhi picked up three points from the game by virtue of taking the first innings lead at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium. Delhi drew the match against the hosts after being made to bowl over 150 overs in the second innings.
Forced to follow on after conceding a lead of 210, Hyderabad's batsmen came good in the second innings, with Akshath Reddy (107), Rohit Rayudu (103) and B Sandeep (93) helping them to 442 for eight at stumps. Delhi used nine bowlers through the second innings, with the left-arm spinner Vikas Mishra picking up his fifth five- wicket haul. He took four wickets on the final day, including those of the set batsmen Rayudu and Sandeep.
Group A topper Karnataka will lock horns with Group C runners-up Mumbai in their last-eight clash. Karnataka thrashed Railways by 209 runs after offspinner K Gowtham returning figures of 7 for 72.
Group B
Gujarat thrashed Jharkhand by 10 wickets after left-arm spinner Hardik Patel starred with the ball with an impressive four-wicket haul to help his side top the group.
Meanwhile, the Kerala cricket team has made history by reaching the quarter-finals of the Ranji Trophy for the first time, joining Gujarat from Group B.
In Rohtak, Kerala picked up an innings and eight-run win against Haryana to join Gujarat in the quarterfinals.
Group C
Tamil Nadu ended it's campaign in this year's Ranji Trophy tournament by losing its final Group "C" match to Baroda by 102 runs. Requiring 233 for a win, the visiting team was all out for 130 in 65.5 overs on the final day today. Baba Aparajith was the only one to offer resistance, scoring 60.
For Baroda, Lukman Meriwala and all-rounder Swapnil K Singh took four wickets each.
Tamil Nadu thus finished the Ranji season with 11 points from six games, having failed to even win a match.
It was an abject surrender by the Tamil Nadu batsmen on the final day as none showed the inclination to fight.
Meriwala ripped the Tamil Nadu top-order apart, removing captain Abhinav Mukund, N Jagadeesan and B Indrajith to leave them tottering at 16 for 3.
It was downhill for TN as wickets kept falling at regular intervals with only Aparajith and V Yomahesh (23) hanging on for a significant period.
Madhya Pradesh, which outclassed Odisha in another game at Indore by seven wickets, qualified for the quarterfinals along with Mumbai.
MP's win knocked out Andhra Pradesh, which finished with 19 points.
Group D
Anustup Majumdar struck a second century in the match as Bengal drew their Ranji Trophy Group D match against Goa to advance to the quarterfinals.
Resuming at 108 for three, Bengal, who had a first innings lead of 69 runs, lost Abhimanyu Easwaran (21) and Shreevats Goswami (20) cheaply. But Majumdar held fort and followed up his first innings century with an unbeaten 108 (183 balls; 11x4), while Writtick Chatterjee also matched his partner with a 102 not out as Bengal declared their second innings for 334 for five.
Chasing an impossible 404 target on the final day, Goa were 86 for two in their second essay at close. With the drawn result, Bengal progressed to the quarterfinals on the basis of their first innings lead with 23 points from six matches.
Vidarbha led Group D with 31 points.
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