Veteran Gautam Gambhir continued his dream run in the Vijay Hazare Trophy with a career-best 151 off 104 balls as Delhi made short work of Kerala, winning the Group B encounter by a whopping 165-run margin here on Friday.
In the twilight of his career and two weeks shy of his 37th birthday, Gambhir smashed his 21st List A hundred that had 18 fours and four huge sixes.
Gambhir has now scored 298 run in four games with a century and a half century.
With Unmukt Chand (69 off 88 balls) and Dhruv Shorey (99 no off 69 balls) also making handsome contributions, Delhi scored a mammoth 392/3 and then restricted Kerala to 227 for 8 in 50 overs.
Left-arm spinner Pawan Negi (3/41) was the most successful bowler for Delhi while Navdeep Saini and Nitish Rana also picked up a couple of wickets.
However the day belonged to Gambhir, who took the depleted Kerala attack to cleaners.
Gambhir was fluent on both sides off the wicket as he peppered the off-side field with monotonic regularity.
He completed his hundred off 74 balls and once Chand was gone, he added added 123 runs in just over 14 overs with Dhruv Shorey before getting retired after having completed his 150.
Elsewher in Bengaluru, Mumbai continued its winning streak after they defeated Punjab by 43 runs in an Elite Group A match.
Asked to bat, opener Jay Bista top-scored for the domestic giants with a patient 68 off 75 balls.
Courtesy his knock, Mumbai managed to put 245 on the board in 49 overs.
Akhil Herwadkar (32), one down Siddesh Lad (35) and experienced Surya Kumar Yadav (31) got desired starts but were unable to convert them to big scores as Punjab bowlers struck at regular intervals.
For Punjab, Manpreet Singh Grewal (2-28), Mayank Markande (2-25) and Mandeep Singh (2-40) were among the wickets.
Mumbai bowlers, who came out all guns blazing, bundled out Punjab for 202, with pacers Dhawal Kulkarni (3-18) and Thakur (3-53) doing the bulk of the damage.
For Punjab, batters Shubman Gill (40), Anmolpreet Singh (35), Mandeep Singh (32) and Yuvraj Singh (26) got starts but faltered at crucial moments in the game.
Wicket-keeper Abhishek Gupta (33 not out) showed some resistance but ran out of partners at the other end and could not take his side home.