Bodapati Sumanth

It would be hard to pick a team in the domestic circuit who have shown the uncanny knack of making a meal out of seemingly winnable positions time and again other than Kerala.

Mayank and Lokesh scored an unbeaten fifty each to power Karnataka to a nine-wicket win over AP in their last South Zone league match of Mushtaq Ali Trophy.

Sheldon Jackson struck his sixth List A hundred, overshadowing Shivam Mavi's hat-trick on his Uttar Pradesh debut to guide Saurashtra to a 25-run win in a Group B match of the Vijay Hazare Trophy on Wednesday.

Ravindra Jadeja (56) and Arpit Vasavada (58) added 113 for the fifth wicket which helped Saurashtra tide over the early setbacks. Towards the end, Prerak Mankad's (40) late onslaught helped Saurashtra reach a competitive 255.

Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) president Sourav Ganguly - a great advocate of sporting wickets in domestic circuit - should have been here to see the ground reality of pitches in Ranji Trophy. As many as 24 wickets fell on Day 1 in the Punjab versus Andhra Ranji Trophy group A clash on a sandpit at the Dhruv Pandove Stadium.

Mandeep Singh-led Punjab face a do-or-die situation when they take on table-topper Andhra in their Ranji Trophy Group A clash at the Dhruv Pandove Stadium from Tuesday.