Chahal's six wickets guides Haryana to win

Yuzvendra Chahal might be despondent after the selectors snubbed him for the T20I series against Australia but the legspinner channelised his angst positively with a sixwicket burst against Uttarakhand as Haryana started their Vijay Hazare Trophy campaign with a sixwicket win here on ThursdayThe 33yearoldrsquos sixwicket haul 102266 saw Haryana bundling out Uttarakhand for 207 in their Group lsquoCrsquo match and along the way Chahal also completed 200 List lsquoArsquo wicketsAlso ReadStill hurts KL Rahul and Kuldeep Yadav after World Cup lossIt might just help him to stay visible on the selectorial radarFor Uttarakhand wicketkeeper batter Aditya Tare made 67 while opener Kunal Chandela chipped in with 47 as Chahal ran through the rest of the orderThe chase was pretty nonfrilled as openers Yuvraj Singh 68 and Ankit Kumar 49 gave them a sound platform while captain Ashok Maneria contributed an unbeaten 44Pacer Deshpande takes 319In a Group lsquoArsquo match at Alur in Bangalore pacer Tushar Deshpandersquos threewicket haul helped Mumbai steamroll Sikkim by seven wicketsDeshpandersquos 319 proved vital as Mumbai shot out Sikkim for 89 in 381 overs and then they chased it down in 12 overs with opener Angkrish Raghuvanshi making a 28ball 30Also ReadRavichandran Ashwin Australia were tactically outstandingKerala pip SaurashtraIn another Group lsquoArsquo encounter Kerala went through some struggles before eking out a threewicket win over Saurashtra at AlurKSCA Oval in BangaloreCourtesy a gritty 98 off 121 balls by Vishvarajsinh Jadeja Saurashtra recovered from a precarious 65 for 7 to post a competitive 185 under cloudy skies on a freshlylaid pitchDebutant Akhin took 4 for 39 for Kerala to rock their opponents top order generating good pace and bounceKerala nearly messed up the chase and were at 614 in the 17th over but a composed fifty by Abdul Bazith 60 off 76 balls and an unbeaten 21 by Shreyas Gopal carried them past target with 14 balls to spareDelhirsquos Harshit Ishant shineIn a Group lsquoCrsquo match at Motera lsquoArsquo in Ahmedabad veteran pacer Ishant Sharma 330 his younger colleague Harshit Rana 417 and legspinner Suyash Sharma 319 combined to bowl out Bihar for 149Skipper Yash Dhull and openers Anuj Rawat and Priyansh Arya made welltimed knocks as Delhi cantered to the target in just over 22 oversAllround show by BengalIn a Group lsquoErsquo match at BKC Mumbai captain Sudip Kumar Gharami who made a 44ball 62 and opener Abhimanyu Easwaran who struck 57 off 63 balls assisted Bengal to overcome a mediocre target posted by Nagaland for a ninewicket victory Earlier pacers Saksham Chaudhary 323 and Akash Deep 224 shared five wickets among them to bowl out Nagaland to a lowly 139 in 47 oversTons for Mayank SamarthOpeners Mayank Agarwal and Ravikumar Samarth fired in tandem to make big hundreds as Karnataka started their campaign with a big 222run win over Jammu and Kashmir at Motera lsquoBrsquo ground in Ahmedabad in a Group C matchSamarth 123 off 120 balls 11x4 2x6 Agarwal 157 off 133 balls 11x4 8x6 and Devdutt Padikkal 71 35 balls 4x4 5x6 spurred Karnataka to a mammoth 4022This story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever