thiruvananthapuram tamil nadu had a batting debacle in their 41run defeat at the hands of baroda in their final group b league match of the vijay hazare trophy but that didnt stop them from qualifying for the knockout stage of the competitiondefending champion mumbai stumbled to a fourth defeat in five games to finish with four points after a humiliating 18run loss to unfancied pondicherrythough tamil nadu 12 points was well beaten by baroda its healthy net runrate of 1052 helped the team take the top spot ahead of karnataka 12 points nrr 0789 and bengal 12 points nrr 0235 and puducherry 12 points nrr 1360 after four teams finished equal of pointstamil nadu entered the quarterfinals as it finished on top of the group while karnataka will play the prequarterfinals as the second qualifier from group bit was a forgettable tournament for the shams mulaniled mumbai as it managed only one from five matches to finish last with 4 points after having won the delayed tournament 202021 earlier in the year their solitary win came against barodaon a day of topturvy results tamil nadu could not chase down a target of 115 in 50 overs and was shot out for 73 in 202 overs as the baroda spinners bhargav bhatt 327 krunal pandya 216 and gurjindersingh mann 27 strangled the strong opposition batting lineupbatting first after skipper kedar devdhar won the toss baroda lost wickets at regular intervals and only krunal pandya 38 82 balls 3 fours with his uncharacteristic and slow knock made a significant contributionfor tamil nadu spinners m s washington sundar 215 m siddharth 225 and r sanjay yadav 213 grabbed two wickets apiece as did mediumpacer sandeep warrier 220after a bright start by opener c hari nishaanth 11 8 balls 1 six 1 four things went downhill for tamil nadu as the rest of the batters simply fell like a pack of cards and were all out in the 21st over only three batters managed doublefiguresnone of the big gunscaptain vijay shankar 1 dinesh karthik 1 washington sundar 8 and b indrajith 0 apart from powerhitter m shahrukh khan 9 could make an impact in the lowscoring gamemeanwhile karnataka went down to bengal despite making 252 for 8 in 50 overs thanks to manish pandeys enterprising knock of 90 skipper sudip chatterjee 63 and opener abhisek das 58 fashioned bengals victory with shahbaz ahmed 26 not out finishing off the jobin the mumbaipondicherry match spinner fabid ahmed turned the match the latters way with an impressive spell of 4 for 16 in 10 overs with the wickets of talented young yashasvi jaiswal 2 py pawar 11 skipper mulani 6 and tanush kotian 0replying to pondicherrys 157 riding on paras dogras 58 mumbai batters save for aakarshith gomel 70 127 balls 5 fours never came to grips with the situation and perished in the face of some accurate bowling a 49run ninth wicket stand between gomel and dhawal kulkarni 18 gave pondicherry the jitters before sagar