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[caption id="attachment_25053" align="alignnone" width="580"] K Gowtham and S Arvind took seven wickets among themselves to skittle Delhi for 90 runs in Ranji Trophy clash at Eden Gardens. Image Source: Xtra Time[/caption] Internet Desk: Delhi put up a reckless batting display to be bundled for 90 runs, their lowest ever against Karnataka who took a healthy 41 first innings lead to be in command in the Ranji Trophy cricket at Eden Gardens on Thursday. Put in, the group B leaders Delhi lost their first wicket for zero and skipper Gautam Gambhir (2) was the second to go with an atrocious pull, while the inform Rishabh Pant, fresh from his 308 against Maharashtra, seemed to be in a hurry and got out for 24. Delhi lost their top five batsmen for 65 runs with no intent to occupy the crease as Karnataka bowlers did not have to do anything extraordinary to dismiss them in 35.5 overs in two hours and 38 minutes in the extended first session. Left arm pacer Sreenath Aravind, who replaced the injured skipper R Vinay Kumar, returned with 4/12 in his first match of the season while offspinner K Gowtham scalped 3/26 and Abhimanyu Mithun 2/29. In reply, Karnataka showed Delhi the way as R Samarth (53) and Mayank Agarwal (56) put up a solid 87 opening partnership. The duo was in no hurry and played every ball to his merit during their patient partnership that helped them wipe out the deficit. Making a comeback after a bout of chikungunya, India frontline pacer Ishant Sharma returned wicketless and bowled just 10 overs in four short spells. Sharma was expensive with the new ball giving four runs an over and Samarth, fresh from his careerbest 235, hit the India pacer for six with a clean pull en route to his second half-century from as many matches. It was Vikas Tokas (2/35) who gave the breakthrough when Samarth took an edge, before Karnataka lost two wickets for 10 runs in the fag end of the day to close the day for 124 for three at stumps on day one. Leading in his first match, Karun Nair was batting on three with night watchman Abhimanyu Mithun on seven. Earlier Nair won a good toss on a pitch with some green tinge to invite the star-studded Delhi to bat and got the breakthrough in the fourth ball of the day. Chand was hit on his pad by a rising ball from Mithun to be adjudged lbw. Playing his first Ranji match after making a Test comeback after two years, Gambhir failed to hold the innings together as his mistime pull took a topedge to be caught by Nair at wide mid-on. The leading run-getter of the season, Pant, who has a triple century and a century this season, got a reprive on first ball after being dropped at second slip by Mithun. But he failed to make it big choosing to go about his innings in sixes and boundaries and was dismissed for 24 which included a boundary and three sixes. There was complete lack of application from the Delhi batsmen as Karnataka found little difficult in wrapping up the first innings. Delhi's previous lowest versus Karnataka was 138 in 2005-06 season in Bangalore. Brief Scores Delhi: 90 all out in 35.5 overs (Arvind Sreenath 4/12, Gowtham 3/26, Mithun 2/29) Karnataka: 131/3 in 52 overs (Mayank Agarwal 56, R Samarth 53)