Shreyas Gopal produced another of his typical clutch-moment cameos to close out a nervy five-wicket win over Haryana that puts Karnataka in the Vijay Hazare final. The highest wicket-taker of this edition, his unbeaten 23 off 20 balls stubbed out the last flickers of Haryana’s fight-back hopes, by wrapping up the chase of 238 with 16 balls to spare. But the overriding theme of this game was how Devdutt Padikkal furnished another account of his 50-over mastery. The 24-year-year cursed his adrenaline-burst moment when he stepped out to heave Nishant Sidhu and skied the ball to mid-off, leaving him 14 runs short of what could have been his third hundred on the spin in this format. He kept the door slightly ajar for defending champions Haryana to script a late heist. They did lose the wickets of Krishnan Shrijith, the wicket-keeper who endured a horrid game behind and in front of the stumps, and Ravichandran Smaran with a belligerent 76, only for the battle-scarred hands of Shreyas to stave off late twists. Tricky pitch Until …