http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 Domestic: Ranji Trophy Elite - 2nd Quarter - Final - Karnataka v Haryana – 3rd Day’s Update
Karnataka 151 & 262 v Haryana 272 & 144 - Haryana won by 6 wickets
On Wednesday, January 04, 2012 Haryana qualified to play the first semi-final of the ongoing http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Kumar-Shri-Ranjitsinhji-c71870 Trophy Elite by winning the second quarterfinal of the tournament against Karnataka by six wickets, at M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore.
Earlier in the day, Karnataka resumed their second innings after hammering 122 runs for three wickets a day earlier.
Disaster struck early for the batting side as they lost the wicket of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Amit-Verma-c44057, who failed to add a run to his overnight tally of one.
They suffered their second loss with just 154 runs on the board, when http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ganesh-Satish-c58368 fell on 33 runs.
It was then some heroics from all-rounder http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Muralidharen-Gautam-c2039 as they batted superbly against the bowlers to avoid the fall of another wicket.
With 169 runs on the board, it was time for Binny to take a bow as he lost his wicket after smashing 34 runs.
Gautam then followed suit as he departed after playing a well-tamed knock of 16 runs. At the time of this wicket, Karnataka had posted 183 runs on the board.
It was then time for http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sunil-Raju-c2604 to shine as he played with zeal and confidence against the bowling attack and hammered 31 runs before losing his wicket. The batsman played a vital role in helping his side amass 262 runs on the board.
From Haryana, medium-pacer http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sachin-Rana-c87801 was the top bowler from his side with three wickets to his name in the second innings.
Needing 142 runs to win, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Haryana-c790 had their eyes set on the prize and batted aggressively to put pressure on the fielding side early on.
Openers http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Rahul-Dewan-c83327 gave their side an opening stand of 75 runs, before Saini lost his wicket in the 17th over, after hammering an innings of 52 runs.
Then with 79 runs on the board, they lost their second wicket as Dewan found his way back to the pavilion after scoring 25 runs.
Middle-order batsman Prateek Pawar and Priyank Tehlan played an important role in guiding their team to victory by hammering unbeaten knocks of 27 and 25 runs as their team won the match for the loss of four wickets.
Medium-pacer, Harshal http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Karnataka-c801.
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