In a modest run chase gone awry, Mahendra Singh Dhoni put up a fight for Jharkhand, but with negligible support at the other end, ended up on the losing side. Delhi marched into the semis of the Vijay Hazare Trophy with a 99-run victory, courtesy a stellar performance from their pace troika of Navdeep Saini, Ishant Sharma and Subodh Bhati at the Chinnaswamy stadium in Bangalore on Thursday (December 23).

After a lacklustre batting performance that saw Delhi crawl to just 225, the Gautam Gambhir-led side began their time in the field with an extra spring in their steps as the stumps were sent tumbling early.

A length delivery from Navdeep Saini managed to go past Ishank Jaggi's tiny bat-pad gap to uproot the middle stump in the opening over while Ishant Sharma sent Ishan Kishan's -