Ahmedabad: Abhimanyu Mithun's (3-40) brilliant bowling at death enabled defending champions Karnataka to edge out Bengal by six runs in a thrilling semi-final of the National One Day Championship for the Vijay Hazare Trophy, here yesterday. Karnataka will meet Punjab in the final scheduled on Tuesday.


Abhimanyu Mithun

Batting first, Karnataka scored 268-9 in 50 overs after being down at 222 for nine. It was skipper R Vinay Kumar's long handle that took the score past 265 with the India discard contributing 39 off 30 balls with six fours.