The Ajit Agarkar-led selection committee will soon announce the squad for the upcoming ICC Champions Trophy 2025. Some of the players have shown form and class in the Vijay Hazare Trophy, and it will not be easy for the national selection committee to ignore them for the global tournament in Pakistan and Dubai. Devdutt Padikkal played another good knock for Karnataka in the fifty-over competition to take his team to the final.
Chasing 238 runs against Haryana at the Kotambi Stadium in Vadodara, Karnataka lost their captain, Mayank Agarwal, in the first over. However, Padikkal, who joined the state team after returning from Australia, where he played in the series opener in Perth, scored a well-compiled 86 runs and added 128 for the third wicket with Smaran (76) as Karnataka completed the target with 16 deliveries left.