Balachandra Akhil

Had allrounder Balachandra Akhil been picked in place of Stuart Binny for the final, the Ranji Trophy would have journeyed southwards to Bangalore

Mumbai have retained the same squad that helped them progress to the final

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A round-up of the fourth day of the Karnataka Premier League

Vinay Kumar's double-strike at the fag end of the day leaves Saurashtra with a daunting task on a fourth-day pitch at the Brabourne Stadium

Karnataka, led by Sunil Joshi, breezed to a quarter-final berth by overwhelming Maharashtra by 155 runs on a spinners' paradise at the RSI Ground in Bangalore

While all around him batsmen were losing their heads, and their wickets, Piyush Chawla kept his composure to score a crucial 96 and take Uttar Pradesh a step closer to the quarter-finals

Karnataka's lower order took full toll of a supremely benign Chinnaswamy Stadium pitch to post in excess of 500; their first 400-plus total of the season

The home jinx for Deccan Chargers continued, as Bangalore Royal Challengers powered to a five-wicket win to register their fourth victory of the IPL and assure themselves of seventh place in the points table

Rajasthan went past Karnataka in their Ranji one-day quarterfinal at the Ferozshah Kotla in Delhi

Captain Yere Goud rescued Karnataka from a perilous 36 for 5 and set up a 32-run win over Bengal in the preliminary quarter-final of the Ranji Trophy one-day tournament in Dharamsala

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