With Vidarbha pacer Rajneesh Gurbani (4/70) doing the primary job of dismissing the top-order, left-arm spinner Aditya Sarwate (3/97) polished the lower-order despite Hanuma Vihari's gutsy 183 for Rest of India.
Vidarbha's approach made it clear that they wanted to convert the match into a one-innings battle with Rest of India having a maximum of 180 overs to achieve the target.
The Mumbai-born batsman also becomes the fifth Indian first-class cricketer to score a double ton after the age of 40 and the first Asian player to register 250-plus score after the age of 40.
Fazal was a part of the second-string Indian team that toured Zimbabwe in 2016 and opening the innings for men in blue in his only international game.
Young Vidarbha pacer Gurbani returned with career-best figures of 7/68 in the second innings and a match-haul of 12/162 in the semifinal of Ranji Trophy to bag the Man of the Match award.
After reaching their maiden final, Vidarbha will take on seven-time winners Delhi who beat Bengal in the other semi-final.
Chasing a modest total with more than a day to spare, Karnataka were off to a disastrous start as they lost Mayank Agarwal (3) quickly.
At stumps, Satish was going strong on 71 for Vidarbha while Akshay Wadkar was batting on 19, pacer Sreenath Aravind was the pick of the Karnataka bowlers, claiming two wickets.
Nair's unbeaten 148 ensured Karnataka take a vital 109- run first innings lead over Vidarbha.
The minister said it's difficult to check farmer suicides in the region unless 50 per cent of its land is irrigated.
Maharashtra government has declared drought in over 29,000 villages of the state, most of them in parched Marathwada and Vidarbha regions.
Amid the debate over creation of Vidarbha, the RSS ideologue recently said Maharashtra could be divided into four states, inviting sharp rebuke from Thackeray at his party's 'Gudhi Padwa' rally
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