Overview
- Delhi crushed Haryana by nine wickets to finish atop Group D, with Ishant Sharma taking 3/17 and Nitish Rana hitting an unbeaten 57 as Rishabh Pant captained but is expected to miss the knockouts due to national duty.
- Saurashtra claimed the other Group D berth by routing Gujarat by 145 runs after piling up 383/4 in Alur.
- Vidarbha thumped Assam by 160 runs to qualify ahead of Baroda on superior net run rate, despite Baroda’s 147-run win over Chandigarh.
- The quarterfinals are Karnataka vs Mumbai and Uttar Pradesh vs Saurashtra on January 12, followed by Delhi vs Vidarbha and Punjab vs Madhya Pradesh on January 13 at the BCCI Centre of Excellence.
- Already-qualified Group C sides met as Punjab edged Mumbai by one run, with Sarfaraz Khan’s fastest List A fifty by an Indian not enough to prevent a late Mumbai collapse.