India keeper Rishabh Pant’s detached kind coupled with Delhi’s main batters failing to fireplace noticed their unbeaten run being interrupted by Odisha, who carved out an enormous 79-run victory in a fourth-round Group D match of the Vijay Hazare Trophy right here on Wednesday.
With the nationwide selectors set to announce the squad for the three-match ODI sequence in opposition to New Zealand in first week of January, it was the charismatic India keeper-batter and Delhi skipper Pant, who was the main focus of consideration.
However the feisty cricketer may rating solely 24 because the much-vaunted Delhi batting imploded, managing simply 193 in 43.3 overs within the chase of an immensely gettable 272/8 scored by Odisha after being despatched in to bat first.
Delhi’s innings have largely been constructed round one strong batting efficiency to this point this season. However the absence of 1 on Wednesday price them not simply the match but additionally their prime place on the factors desk, which may come again to hang-out them because the event progresses.
Odisha went prime of the desk with 12 factors and a wholesome web run fee (NRR), whereas Delhi, regardless of being on the identical variety of factors, slipped to fourth, with even Railways and Haryana getting forward of them on higher NRR.
It was additionally the primary time to this point this season that Delhi couldn’t cross 200, one thing which appeared really easy when Virat Kohli slammed a century in opposition to Andhra within the opener, and opener Priyansh Arya scored a positive 78 within the earlier sport in opposition to Saurashtra.
Pant, following scores of 5, 70, 22 may solely handle 24 off 28 balls earlier than he was dismissed by pacer Debabrata Pradhan (3/28), who together with younger right-arm pacer Sambit Baral (3/34), hastened Delhi’s collapse.
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Odisha’s aggressive whole was constructed round veteran skipper Biplab Samantray, who scored a 74-ball-72 after they misplaced three wickets earlier than their scored crossed the 100 mark.
Odisha’s decrease rung made small however helpful contributions to frustrate the Delhi bowling assault, led by India gamers Navdeep Saini and Nitish Rana, although off-spinner Hrithik Shokeen returned wonderful figures of 4/27 in his 10 overs.
Delhi’s batters have been off to an terrible begin shedding openers Priyansh Arya and Sarthak Ranjan on single-dight scores to be two down for simply six runs on the board. Pant’s dismissal noticed Delhi teetering at 50/3 in solely the eleventh over, which rapidly grew to become 55/5.
A restoration from this stage was subsequent to not possible however due credit score to Harsh Tyagi (43) and Hrithik Shokeen (32) for delaying the inevitable with some gritty batting.
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In the meantime, Saurashtra defeated Andhra by 74 runs with right-arm pacer Ankur Panwar taking a five-for and dismissing the rivals for 180 within the chase of 255.
Pink scorching Sarfaraz smashes 14 sixes in 75-ball-157 as Mumbai beat Goa by 87 runs
Sarfaraz Khan ended 2025 with an impressive 75-ball 157 studded with 14 sixes as Mumbai inched nearer in direction of knock-out with a 87-run victory over Goa in a gaggle C sport of the Vijay Hazare Trophy right here on Wednesday.
Sarfaraz, who was additionally in prime kind throughout the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy, hit a 56-ball century, his third in Record A as Mumbai posted an insurmountable 444 for 8 after which restricted Goa to 357 for 9.
That is Mumbai’s fourth successive win within the group league stage and yet one more win out of the remaining three video games will nearly guarantee a clean passage into the quarter-finals.
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On a day when Yashasvi Jaiswal (46) made his comeback after being laid low by gastritis throughout the opening week of the Nationwide One Day Championship, Sarfaraz owned the stage on the Jaipuria Vidyalaya floor the place he made a mincemeat of the Goa assault with 9 fours and 14 sixes.
A many as 10 out of his 14 sixes have been hit of off-spinner Lalit Yadav (2/93 in 9 overs) and left-arm spinner Darshan Misal (3/98 in 9 overs). He hit Lalit for 4 sixes, whereas Misal was dispatched for half-a-dozen maximums.
Legendary Sachin Tendulkar’s son Arjun was hammered for 78 runs in eight overs.
Whereas Sarfaraz was dismissed within the forty second over when he was trying good for his maiden double hundred in Record A cricket, Mumbai didn’t lose the tempo with greater than 100 runs coming off the final 8 overs.
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Musheer Khan (60 off 66 balls), wicketkeeper Hardik Tamore (53 off 28 balls), Shams Mulani (22 off 15 balls), Tanush Kotian (23 not out off 12 balls) and skipper Shardul Thakur (27 off eight balls) wielded the lengthy deal with to good impact because the winners hammered 35 fours and 25 sixes.
In reply, Goa have been by no means within the chase however Lalit Yadav (64), Abhinav Tejrana (100) and Deepraj Gaonkar (70) did bat properly throughout the center overs nevertheless it was by no means going to be sufficient.
Skipper Shardul Thakur (3/20 in 6 overs) as soon as once more confirmed his wares on a flat deck, whereas Yashasvi Jaiswal, bowling his leg-breaks, received smashed for 52 in simply 3 overs however received a few wickets within the discount.