Shubman Gill scored a century for Punjab in Ranji Trophy match against Karnataka before being dismissed in a controversial manner.

Ravichandran Smaran's knock was the highlight of the day, with the next best score being Abhinav Manohar's 34.

Shubman Gill will turn out for Punjab against Karnataka in a Ranji Trophy Elite Group C match in Bengaluru from Thursday.

Karnataka ended their five-year title drought with the Vijay Hazare Trophy triumph last week.

Hours after his omission from Team India's squad for the Champions Trophy, Vidarbha captain Karun Nair dream run in the Vijay Hazare Trophy also came to a sad end.

Apart from the sensational Karun Nair, Mayank Agarwal is the only other batter to have aggregated over 600 runs in the season so far.

Shreyas Iyer is hoping to get back into the team after beind dropped from the central contract list by the BCCI earlier this year.

Recently bought by CSK for Rs 30 lakh in the IPL auction, the player turned the game on its head with a hat-trick.

Samit Dravid, son of Rahul Dravid, finally got some runs under his belt, scoring 33 off 24 balls for Mysuru Warriors in their match against Gulbarga Mystics.

Samit Dravid scored 25 off 45 balls to help Karnataka post 356 on the opening day of the practice match.

Jofra Archer looked in good rhythm as he dismissed two of his Sussex teammates and one of them was an absolute ripper.

Karnataka U-23 opener Prakhar Chaturvedi was given out caught-behind by the on-field umpire, despite the wicketkeeper grassing the ball.

Vidarbha completed a 128-run hammering of Karnataka to cruise to the Ranji Trophy semifinal, riding on splendid four-wicket hauls by Harsh Dubey and Aditya Sarwate in Nagpur

Having obtained a slender lead of 36 runs in the first innings which might eventually send Mumbai into the semifinals provided this contest ends in a draw, the hosts drove home the advantage to get to a commanding position.

K was administered CPR on the spot and was then rushed to the nearby Bowring Hospital but doctors declared him brought dead.

Aditya Sarwate produced another impressive show as Vidarbha registered a comfortable 115-run win over Haryana on the fourth and final day to qualify for the Ranji Trophy quarterfinals from group A.

Jalaj Saxena now has 439 wickets and has 6600-plus runs from 138 matches in first-class cricket.

Prakhar Chaturvedi became the first player to score 400 runs in the final of the U19 Cooch Behar Trophy