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