Overview
- The 22-year-old left-hander registered his second double hundred in three games and his highest first-class score.
- Karnataka recovered from 13 for 2, with a 119-run stand as Karun Nair made 95 before falling five short of a century.
- Shreyas Gopal scored 62 and Shikhar Shetty added 59 as the lower order bolstered the total to 547 for 8 declared.
- Smaran moved to fourth on this Ranji season’s run charts with 595 runs at an average of 119, and he now has 1,179 first-class runs at 78.6 with four hundreds, three of them doubles.
- Chandigarh closed on 72 for 4 in reply, with leg-spinner Shreyas Gopal taking 3 for 18 late in the day.