Indian senior batsman KL Rahul showed his experience and class in this match. He was dismissed for just 28 runs in the first innings but turned around brilliantly in the second innings. He played a brilliant innings of 130 runs off 182 balls. His innings had 14 fours and a six. This century is his 24th career century, a testament to his consistency in the Ranji Trophy.

Karnataka won this match by 4 wickets. Mumbai could score only 120 runs in the first innings at the BKC ground. In reply, Karnataka also failed to make a big score and stopped at 173 runs. Mumbai struggled a bit in the second innings. Akash Anand top scored with 70 runs and in the end Tanush Kotian’s innings of 40 runs made the team a total of 377 runs. The target of 325 runs in front of Karnataka is 325 runs. Karnataka lost 6 wickets and reached the target of victory thanks to the excellent batting of KL Rahul.

KL Rahul is known as one of India’s most mature batsmen in red ball cricket. He has so far scored 4,053 runs in 118 innings in 67 Test matches, including 20 centuries. His total runs in first class cricket are 8,599 in 117 innings. Evident in this performance, KL Rahul is the mainstay in taking Karnataka to the semi-finals.