Overview
- Vidarbha chased 281 to win by six wickets in Bengaluru, finishing 284/4 in 46.2 overs after Karnataka were dismissed for 280.
- Aman Mokhade top-scored with 138 off 122 balls, adding 99 with Dhruv Shorey and 147 with Ravikumar Samarth, who remained 76 not out.
- Darshan Nalkande’s 5/48 checked Karnataka after fifties from Karun Nair (76) and KL Shrijith (54), and the hosts also lost pacer Vijaykumar Vyshak to a concussion with Manvanth Kumar as substitute.
- Mokhade equalled Graeme Pollock’s benchmark by reaching 1,000 List A runs in 16 innings and tied the Vijay Hazare single-season record with five hundreds.
- The victory was Vidarbha’s first over Karnataka in this competition and set up a January 18 final against the Punjab–Saurashtra winner, with Mokhade on 781 runs and 50 short of the single-season record.