Flashes of individual brilliance but inadequate as a group might best describe Karnataka's senior cricket team over the past couple of seasons. The evidence is stark. They have been trophy less since the 2019-2020 season when they won the Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 and the Vijay Hazare trophies.
This season too, the side looked as if they would be in the reckoning for silverware after delivering in most of their league encounters in the Syed Mushtaq Ali. But then, old faults surfaced, and they faltered at the finish in a high-scoring quarterfinal against Punjab last month.
