Batting		R	B	M	4s	6s	SR
Ravikumar Samarth	c Gandhi b Natarajan	11	42	70	2	0	26.19
KL Rahul	c Aparajith b Natarajan	4	3	9	1	0	133.33
Kaunain Abbas	c Shankar b Aswin Crist	0	24	31	0	0	0.00
Manish Pandey	c Gandhi b Aswin Crist	28	52	86	4	0	53.84
Abhimanyu Mithun	c †Karthik b Natarajan	6	14	22	1	0	42.85
Karun Nair	c †Karthik b Aswin Crist	14	38	55	3	0	36.84
Stuart Binny	lbw b Aswin Crist	0	5	8	0	0	0.00
Chidhambaram Gautam †	c Indrajith b Aswin Crist	2	12	25	0	0	16.66
Vinay Kumar (c)	c Natarajan b Aswin Crist	14	27	32	2	0	51.85
Shreyas Gopal	c †Karthik b Vignesh	1	4	7	0	0	25.00
Sreenath Aravind	not out	1	4	14	0	0	25.00
Extras	(b 4, nb 2, w 1)	7
Total	37.1 Ov (RR: 2.36, 186 Mins)	88
Fall of wickets: 1-4 (KL Rahul, 1.3 ov), 2-10 (Kaunain Abbas, 8.4 ov), 3-31 (Ravikumar Samarth, 14.3 ov), 4-44 (Abhimanyu Mithun, 18.4 ov), 5-61 (Manish Pandey, 25.6 ov), 6-61 (Stuart Binny, 27.5 ov), 7-72 (Karun Nair, 31.1 ov), 8-77 (Chidhambaram Gautam, 33.1 ov), 9-82 (Shreyas Gopal, 34.3 ov), 10-88 (Vinay Kumar, 37.1 ov)

Bowling	O	M	R	W	ECON	0s	4s	6s	WD	NB
Aswin Crist	13.1	5	31	6	2.35	-	-	-	0	0
T Natarajan	9	3	18	3	2.00	-	-	-	0	2
Krishnamoorthy Vignesh	11	3	32	1	2.90	-	-	-	1	0
Vijay Shankar	4	1	3	0	0.75	-	-	-	0	0

Tamil Nadu 1st Innings

Batting		R	B	M	4s	6s	SR
Kaushik Gandhi	c Rahul b Aravind	15	41	64	1	0	36.58
Laxmesha Suryaprakash	c †Gautam b Aravind	15	29	53	2	0	51.72
Baba Indrajith	c †Gautam b Binny	1	7	5	0	0	14.28
Dinesh Karthik †	c †Gautam b Vinay Kumar	31	75	126	5	0	41.33
Vijay Shankar	run out (Kaunain Abbas)	34	61	96	3	0	55.73
Abhinav Mukund (c)	c Binny b Mithun	17	48	73	2	0	35.41
Baba Aparajith	c †Gautam b Aravind	0	3	3	0	0	0.00
Aswin Crist	c †Gautam b Vinay Kumar	5	26	39	1	0	19.23
Aushik Srinivas	not out	6	22	34	0	0	27.27
Krishnamoorthy Vignesh	lbw b Gopal	6	8	25	1	0	75.00
T Natarajan	b Gopal	0	2	3	0	0	0.00
Extras	(b 19, lb 2, nb 1)	22
Total	53.3 Ov (RR: 2.84, 265 Mins)	152
Fall of wickets: 1-30 (Laxmesha Suryaprakash, 11.2 ov), 2-31 (Baba Indrajith, 12.3 ov), 3-33 (Kaushik Gandhi, 13.2 ov), 4-103 (Vijay Shankar, 32.4 ov), 5-111 (Dinesh Karthik, 37.6 ov), 6-112 (Baba Aparajith, 38.6 ov), 7-136 (Aswin Crist, 47.5 ov), 8-136 (Abhinav Mukund, 48.2 ov), 9-152 (Krishnamoorthy Vignesh, 53.1 ov), 10-152 (T Natarajan, 53.3 ov)

Bowling	O	M	R	W	ECON	0s	4s	6s	NB
Vinay Kumar	16	4	52	2	3.25	-	-	-	1
Abhimanyu Mithun	10	0	43	1	4.30	-	-	-	0
Sreenath Aravind	17	10	16	3	0.94	-	-	-	0
Stuart Binny	9	3	19	1	2.11	-	-	-	0
Shreyas Gopal	1.3	0	1	2	0.66	-	-	-	0

Karnataka 2nd Innings

Batting		R	B	M	4s	6s	SR
KL Rahul	c †Karthik b Natarajan	77	94	181	13	0	81.91
Ravikumar Samarth	run out (†Karthik)	10	11	21	2	0	90.90
Kaunain Abbas	b Vignesh	15	46	64	3	0	32.60
Manish Pandey	c Indrajith b Vignesh	0	9	11	0	0	0.00
Stuart Binny	run out (sub [V Ganga Sridhar Raju])	0	5	10	0	0	0.00
Chidhambaram Gautam †	lbw b Aswin Crist	0	1	2	0	0	0.00
Shreyas Gopal	c †Karthik b Vignesh	2	4	5	0	0	50.00
Karun Nair	c †Karthik b Vignesh	12	18	29	2	0	66.66
Vinay Kumar (c)	lbw b Natarajan	6	28	43	0	0	21.42
Abhimanyu Mithun	c Shankar b Natarajan	8	10	20	1	0	80.00
Sreenath Aravind	not out	10	5	9	2	0	200.00
Extras	(b 4, lb 2, nb 2, w 2)	10
Total	38.1 Ov (RR: 3.93, 202 Mins)	150
Fall of wickets: 1-13 (Ravikumar Samarth, 3.5 ov), 2-74 (Kaunain Abbas, 16.5 ov), 3-76 (Manish Pandey, 18.6 ov), 4-82 (Stuart Binny, 21.1 ov), 5-83 (Chidhambaram Gautam, 21.3 ov), 6-86 (Shreyas Gopal, 22.4 ov), 7-112 (Karun Nair, 28.1 ov), 8-130 (KL Rahul, 34.4 ov), 9-137 (Vinay Kumar, 36.2 ov), 10-150 (Abhimanyu Mithun, 38.1 ov)

Bowling	O	M	R	W	ECON	0s	4s	6s	WD	NB
Aswin Crist	14	2	51	1	3.64	-	-	-	1	0
T Natarajan	11.1	2	40	3	3.58	-	-	-	1	2
Krishnamoorthy Vignesh	13	1	53	4	4.07	-	-	-	0	0

Tamil Nadu 2nd Innings (T: 87 runs)

Batting		R	B	M	4s	6s	SR
Baba Aparajith	c Kaunain Abbas b Aravind	18	33	41	3	0	54.54
Laxmesha Suryaprakash	c †Gautam b Binny	9	8	13	2	0	112.50
Kaushik Gandhi	c †Gautam b Mithun	2	11	14	0	0	18.18
Baba Indrajith	not out	16	35	57	1	0	45.71
Dinesh Karthik †	not out	41	30	44	5	2	136.66
Extras	(b 1)	1
Total	19.3 Ov (RR: 4.46, 86 Mins)	87/3
Did not bat: Abhinav Mukund (c), Aswin Crist, Aushik Srinivas, Vijay Shankar, Krishnamoorthy Vignesh, T Natarajan
Fall of wickets: 1-18 (Laxmesha Suryaprakash, 3.1 ov), 2-23 (Kaushik Gandhi, 6.4 ov), 3-35 (Baba Aparajith, 9.3 ov)

Bowling	O	M	R	W	ECON	0s	4s	6s
Sreenath Aravind	6	0	27	1	4.50	-	-	-
Stuart Binny	7	1	26	1	3.71	-	-	-
Abhimanyu Mithun	2	0	7	1	3.50	-	-	-
Vinay Kumar	2	1	2	0	1.00	-	-	-
Shreyas Gopal	2.3	0	24	0	9.60	-	-	-

Close of Play

Fri, 23 Dec - day 1 - Tamil Nadu 1st innings 111/4 (Dinesh Karthik 31*, Abhinav Mukund 3*, 36 ov)

Sat, 24 Dec - day 2 - Tamil Nadu 2nd innings 87/3 (19.3 ov) - end of match

Match Details

Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium, Visakhapatnam
Toss	Tamil Nadu, elected to field first
Series	Ranji Trophy
Season	2016/17
Player Of The Match	Aswin Crist
Series result	Tamil Nadu advanced
Hours of play (local time)	09.30 start, Lunch 12.00-12.40, Tea 14.40-15.00, Close 16.30
Match days	23,24 December 2016 - day (5-day match)
Umpires	Navdeep Singh Nikhil Patwardhan
Match Referee	Prakash Bhatt

Match Coverage

Young seam attack impresses Abhinav

Vignesh, Natarajan fire Tamil Nadu into semi-final

The TN-Karnataka rivalry through the ages

Crist's 6 for 31 puts Tamil Nadu in command

Karthik's roller-coaster ride to 100 Ranji games

Instant answers to T20 questions

Tamil Nadu Innings

Player Name	O	M	R	W	Econ
S Aravind	6	0	27	1	4.5
STR Binny	7	1	26	1	3.71
A Mithun	2	0	7	1	3.5
R Vinay Kumar	2	1	2	0	1
S Gopal	2.3	0	24	0	9.6

Group B