Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy: Baroda, Rajasthan Win, Enter Semis

An unbeaten 71 off 46 deliveries, including a match-winning last-ball six, by Vishnu Solanki, helped Baroda beat Haryana by eight wickets in a quarter-final match and storm into the semi-finals of the

In the second quarter-final match of the day, Mahipal Lomror's 78 off 37 balls helped Rajasthan win under floodlights. His innings helped Rajasthan score 164/5 wickets and Bihar was restricted to 148/4 wickets at the Motera Stadium.

Mangal Mahrour led the Bihar chase with an unbeaten 68 off 58 balls while Ravi Bishnoi, Chandrapal Singh and Aniket Choudhary all chipped in with a wicket each for Rajasthan.

Bihar, the only Plate team to qualify for the knockout stage of the tournament after topping their pool, were behind the required run rate for much of their chase. Rajasthan kept them in check in the last four overs of the chase, thus leaving them needing a whopping 27 runs from the final over. Vikash Yadav's six off the second last ball helped Bihar take 10 runs from the over.

Brief scores:

Haryana: 148/7 in 20 overs (H Rana 49, S Chauhan 35, K Kakade 2/7, A Sheth 1/27, B Pathan 1/34) lost to Baroda: 150/2 in 20 overs (V Solanki 71 not out, K Devdhar 43, Y Chahal 1/15, S Kumar 1/37) by 8 wkts.

Rajasthan: 164/5 in 20 overs (Mahipal Lomror 78 not out, Bharat Sharma 38; Suraj Kashyap 2/28) beat Bihar: 148/4 in 20 overs (Mangal Mahrour 68 not out, Vikash Yadav 27 not out; Chandrapal Singh 1/21) by 16 runs.