Put in to bat, 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. 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.
In reply, Karnataka showed Delhi the way as R Samarth (53) and Mayank Agarwal (56) put up a solid 87-run opening partnership.
Making a comeback after a bout of Chikungunya, India frontline pacer Ishant Sharma returned wicket-less and bowled just 10 overs in four short spells.
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Sharma was expensive with the new ball giving four runs an over and Samarth, fresh from his career-best 235, hit the India pacer for six with a clean pull en route to his second half-century from as many matches.
Leading in his first match, Karun Nair was batting on three with night watchman Abhimanyu Mithun on seven.
Earlier, Nair won the toss on a pitch with some green tinge to invite the star-studded Delhi line-up 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.
The leading run-getter of the season, Pant, who has a triple century and a century, got a reprieve on the first ball after being dropped at second slip by Mithun.
But he failed to make it big choosing to go for big shots and was dismissed for 24 which included a boundary and three sixes.
Delhi's previous lowest against Karnataka was 138 in 2005-06 season in Bangalore.
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).
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