The RCB captain also admitted last season's marketing campaign - this year the cup is ours - may not have been the wisest move

The RCB captain feels responsibility for managing workloads would lie with the players themselves, a view shared by coaches Ashish Nehra and Gary Kirsten

Warne says he is "still working out" whether the India captain is better than Tendulkar and Lara and "more destructive" than Viv Richards

Vidarbha's senior players, and Pandit himself, share what makes a unit that's always hungry for success

The allrounder's journey to domestic cricket's highest peaks has been all about two words tattooed on his arm: 'Carpe Diem'

Faiz Fazal and Chandrakant Pandit, Vidarbha's captain and coach, speak about what it took for the team to win back-to-back Ranji Trophy titles

The left-arm spinner picked up his maiden ten-wicket match-haul as Saurashtra were bowled out for 127, losing by 78 runs

Aditya Sarwate's third wicket of the day could well be the most important of the final

Vidarbha offspinner Aditya Sarwate ran through Saurashtra's top order, also accounting for Cheteshwar Pujara for just 1

Saurashtra chipped away steadily at Vidarbha on a day of attritional cricket, ending the first day of the Ranji Trophy 2018-19 final in a position of advantage

Rarely do you get a battle that checks every box - the best teams in the competition, top stars available, and evenly matched

On the eve of the final on Saturday, there were two sets of a pair of players engaged in animated conversation in the nets sessions in Nagpur

Opportunities at the higher levels have been hard to come by, but the Saurashtra stalwart has no grudges

With many of their stalwarts busy elsewhere or fading away, the Ranji Trophy powerhouses find themselves at a crossroads

Players and coaches involved in the game between Karnataka and Saurashtra have indicated that they would welcome the use of technology in domestic cricket, especially in knockout matches.

They put on an unbroken 201 runs for the fourth wicket to deflate Karnataka, who at one stage had reduced Saurashtra to 23 for 3 in their chase of 279

From being insecure about his place in the Saurashtra side, Dharmendrasinh has carved out his own identity both with bat and ball this Ranji Trophy season

The ninth-wicket pair added an unbroken 61 to extend Karnataka's lead to 276 and give them the edge on a pitch with inconsistent bounce

In the silence of the Ranji Trophy venues, the players pump each other up with their mini orchestra

The batsman was adjudged not out despite having nicked one off Abhimanyu Mithun, but couldn't build on the slice of luck too much