Robin Bist's unbeaten century to beat Punjab in Alur was a good primer of how to overcome top-order trouble and it led Himachal Pradesh to the Vijay Hazare Trophy semi-final

With no international cricket being played currently, the quarter-finals of the Vijay Hazare Trophy will include a host of stars and a pitch for their return to the national side

ESPNcricinfo looks at the domestic cricket journeys of Rishi Dhawan, Hardik Pandya and Manish Pandey, after they were picked in India's ODI and T20 squads for Australia

Axar Patel has come into his own as an ODI bowler, but Ravindra Jadeja's irrepressible form means India's selectors have a tough job on their hands

Apart from a scratchy 44 from MS Dhoni, there were few meaningful contributions from Jharkhand's batsmen as they set Gujarat a target of 178 that they easily chased down

The likes of MS Dhoni, R Ashwin, Shikhar Dhawan, Ishant Sharma taking part in this year's tournament will pull more eyeballs

ESPNcricinfo looks at the various factors that affected the run of the eight-time champions

A look at what each team must do to secure a berth in the Ranji Trophy quarter-finals

Assam's resurgence despite sub-standard infrastructure, absence of big names, limited talent pool and lack of a proper club culture within the state is inspirational

Sudip Chatterjee has scored four hundreds already this Ranji season and his insatiable hunger for batting long is flourishing in an age where IPL influences many batsmen's strokeplay

Jalaj Saxena, who produced the joint second-best figures in the Ranji Trophy, hoped to carry Madhya Pradesh into the knockouts

Shreyas Iyer on his initiation to cricket, going for big bucks in the IPL auction, and the impact Zlatan Ibrahimovic has had on his career

Karnataka players will have to live with "appalling" crowd behaviour in Mysore when they take on Odisha in their Group A Ranji Trophy match starting Saturday

It's not often that cricket hogs the limelight during the festive season in Mysore. Unless, of course, Virender Sehwag is in town