Experienced Indian batsman Cheteshwar Pujara’s presence did not help Saurashtra as a gritty Tripura humbled the defending champions by 148 runs in their Group A match of the Vijay Hazare Trophy in Bengaluru on Monday. (Streaming and Schedule | Cricket News)
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 challenging 258 for 8.
Veteran left-arm pacer Jaydev Unadkat led Saurashtra’s bowling with a five-wickeܫt haul (5 for 35).
In reply, Saurashtra could only muster 110 before getting bow💎led out in 31.4 overs a🐟s part-timer Joydeb Deb grabbed a fifer (5 for 15).
They were in ear𒆙ly trouble at 13 for three after Harvik Desai, Sheldon Jackson and Chirag Jani went back in quick succession with pac🔯er 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 front of the wicket to end the alliance and the hopes of Saurashtra to make a fist of the chase.
Warrier Wrecks Bengal
Pacer Sande💮ep Warrier grabbed four wickets (4/23) as Tamil Nadu bundled out Bengal for a paltry 84 in a Group E match.
Tami🍸l Nadu stumbled through rocks before reaching the target in 19.1 overs losing five wickets.
Padikkal Powers Karnataka
Middle-order batter Devdutt Padikkal made a fluent 70 off 69 bal﷽ls as Karnataka chased down 144 without much fuss to beat Delhi by six wickets in♊ a Group C match.
Earlier, pacers Vidwath Kaverappa (3/25) and Vasuki K🅘oushik (3/19) shared six wickets equally among themselves as Delhi were bo🌳wled out for 143.
Ayush Badoni singlehanded🐟ly led their batting with an unbeaten 100 off 106 balls that contained 12 fours and foꦆur sixes.
MP Drub Punjab
In a Group E match, Punjab’s strong batting unit containing the likes of Abhishek Sharma, Prabhsimran Singh and Mandeep Singh suffered a ligh𒐪t out, going down to Madhya Pradesh by 89 runs.
Akshat Raghuvanshi (62) and Rajat Patidar (31) guided🔥 MP to 177 before Kumar Kartikeya S🌞ingh (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) beat𝓀 Saurashtra: 110 all out in 31.4 overs (Cheteshwar Pujara 24; Joydeb Deb 5/15, Mura Singh 2/13) by 148 runs.
Mumbaಞi: 324/5 in 50 overs (Jay Bista 144, S💮uved 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) lost 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 wi♔ckets.
Group C:
Delhi: 143 all out in 36.3 overs (Ayush Badoni 100, Vi൲dwath Kaverappa 3/25, Vasuki Koushik 3/19, Vysakh Vijayakumar 2/27) lost to Karnataka: 144 for 4 in 27.3 overs (Devdutt Padikkal 70, Manish Pandey 28 not out) by 6 wicke🐻ts.
Group D:
Rajaꦐsthan: 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) lost to Tamil Nadu: 85/5 in 19.1 overs (N Jagadeesan 30; Mohammad Kaif 2/12) by 5ღ 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, Kuma💃r Kartikeya ღSingh 3/20, Venkatesh Iyer 1/11) by 89 runs.
