Vijay Hazare Trophy: Minnows Tripura Shock Defending Champions Saurashtra

Experienced Indian batsman Cheteshwar Pujara’s presence didn’t assist Saurashtra as a gritty Tripura humbled the defending champions by 148 runs of their Group A match of the Vijay Hazare Trophy in Bengaluru on Monday. Fifties by Bikram Kumar Das (59 off 76 balls), Sudip Chatterjee (61 off 93 balls) and Ganesh Satish (71 off 74 balls) fuelled Tripura to a difficult 258 for 8. Veteran left-arm pacer Jaydev Unadkat led Saurashtra’s bowling with a five-wicket haul (5 for 35).

In reply, Saurashtra may solely muster 110 earlier than getting bowled out in 31.4 overs as part-timer Joydeb Deb grabbed a fifer (5 for 15).

They had been in early hassle at 13 for 3 after Harvik Desai, Sheldon Jackson and Chirag Jani went again in fast succession with pacer Mura Singh inflicting the blows.

Pujara (24) and Arpit Vasavada (16) tried to revive Saurashtra’s innings with a 37-run stand for the fourth-wicket.

However, pacer Bikram Debnath trapped Pujara in entrance of the wicket to finish the alliance and the hopes of Saurashtra to make a fist of the chase.

Warrier wrecks Bengal

Pacer Sandeep Warrier grabbed 4 wickets (4/23) as Tamil Nadu bundled out Bengal for a paltry 84 in a Group E match.

Tamil Nadu stumbled by way of rocks earlier than reaching the goal in 19.1 overs shedding 5 wickets.

Padikkal powers Karnataka

Middle-order batter Devdutt Padikkal made a fluent 70 off 69 balls as Karnataka chased down 144 with out a lot fuss to beat Delhi by six wickets in a Group C match.

Earlier, pacers Vidwath Kaverappa (3/25) and Vasuki Koushik (3/19) shared six wickets equally amongst themselves as Delhi had been bowled out for 143.

Ayush Badoni singlehandedly led their batting with an unbeaten 100 off 106 balls that contained 12 fours and 4 sixes.

MP drub Punjab

In a Group E match, Punjab’s robust batting unit containing the likes of Abhishek Sharma, Prabhsimran Singh and Mandeep Singh suffered a lightweight out, taking place to Madhya Pradesh by 89 runs.

Akshat Raghuvanshi (62) and Rajat Patidar (31) guided MP to 177 earlier than Kumar Kartikeya Singh (3/20) and Arshad Khan (3/9) bundled out Punjab for 89.

Brief scores:

Group A: Tripura: 258/8 in 50 overs (Bikram Kumar Das 59, Sudip Chatterjee 61, Ganesh Satish 71; Jaydev Unadkat 5/35) beat Saurashtra: 110 all out in 31.4 overs (Cheteshwar Pujara 24; Joydeb Deb 5/15, Mura Singh 2/13) by 148 runs.

Mumbai: 324/5 in 50 overs (Jay Bista 144, Suved Parkar 57, PY Pawar 41) beat Railways: 298/9 in 50 overs (Upendra Yadav 102, Vivek Singh 95; Mohit Avasthi 4/53, Tushar Deshpande 3/62) by 26 runs.

Group B: Maharashtra: 255/8 in 40 overs (Om Bhosale 82, Ankit Bawane 82, NS Naik 47; Darshan Nalkhande 5/34) misplaced to Vidarbha: 261/5 in 39.1 overs (Atharva Taide 60, A. Mokhade 61, Harsh Dubey 56 not out, SB Dubey 62 not out; AN Kazi 3/29) by 5 wickets.

Group C: Delhi: 143 all out in 36.3 overs (Ayush Badoni 100, Vidwath Kaverappa 3/25, Vasuki Koushik 3/19, Vysakh Vijayakumar 2/27) misplaced to Karnataka: 144 for 4 in 27.3 overs (Devdutt Padikkal 70, Manish Pandey 28 not out) by 6 wickets.

Group D: Rajasthan: 211 all out in 48.3 overs (Abhijeet Tomar 50, Mahipal Lomror 33; Bhuvneshwar Kumar 4/30, Kartik Tyagi 3/38, Nitish Rana 3/59) beat Uttar Pradesh: 151 all out in 41.5 overs (Priyam Garg 46; Rahul Chahar 5/41) by 60 runs.

Group E: Bengal: 84 all out in 23.4 overs (Sandeep Warrier 4/23, T Natarajan 2/20) misplaced to Tamil Nadu: 85/5 in 19.1 overs (N Jagadeesan 30; Mohammad Kaif 2/12) by 5 wickets.

Madhya Pradesh: 177 all out in 26.5 overs (Akshat Raghuvanshi 62, Rajat Patidar 31; Siddharth Kaul 4/41) beat Punjab: 89 all out in 18.4 overs (Arshad Khan 3/9, Kumar Kartikeya Singh 3/20, Venkatesh Iyer 1/11) by 89 runs.

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