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Vignesh, Natarajan fire Tamil Nadu into semi-final
- Updated: December 24, 2016
Tamil Nadu 152 (Vijay Shankar 34, Aravind 3-16, Gopal 2-1, Vinay 2-52) and 87 (Karthik 41*) beat Karnataka 88 (Pandey 28, Crist 6-31, Natarajan 3-18) and 150 (Rahul 77, Vignesh 4-53, Natarajan 3-40)Scorecard
On a manic day in which 20 wickets fell and three innings unfolded, Tamil Nadu toppled a full-strength Karnataka side inside two days on a green Visakhapatnam track to march into the semi-final of the 2016-17 Ranji Trophy.
The day began with Dinesh Karthik, playing his 100th Ranji match, nicking behind in the second over of the day, and ended with him launching a straight six to secure Tamil Nadu’s first outright victory over Karnataka in the Ranji Trophy since 2003-04. Karnataka’s current coach J Arunkumar was the captain, and L Balaji, the Tamil Nadu bowling coach, was only playing his 15th Ranji match then.
KL Rahul made a fluent 77, Manish …
