Bengaluru, Feb 2: Ravichandran Smaran gave another reminder of his immense talent with an unbeaten hundred as Karnataka ended the Ranji Trophy season with a draw against Haryana in their Elite Group C match here on Saturday.
However, Haryana have already qualified for the knockouts from the group, starting from February 8, along with Kerala.Haryana are also the group-toppers with 29 points from seven games and Kerala finished second with 28 points.Karnataka were fourth (20) behind Bengal (21) on the table.Starting from overnight 108 for 3 and 38 runs behind, Karnataka had some work to do to ensure that they would not end up with a defeat in their final league match.However, they lost Devdutt Padikkal (43), KL Shrijith (2) and Yashovardhan Parantap (12) in the space of 12 overs to slip to 164 for six.The home side was just 16 runs ahead at that time, but Smaran (133 not out, 217 balls, 14×4, 2×5) and Hardik Raj (40, 78 balls, 4×4) shared an alliance of 98 runs for the seventh wicket to shore their side up. (PTI)
