Vijay Hazare Trophy 2023 HIGHLIGHTS, Round 5: Karthik’s 93 in vain as PUN beats TN; MAH wins thriller vs HYD; Karnataka, Mumbai win

Mumbai vs Saurashtra - MUM 150/5 beat SAU 144 all out by five wickets (C Pujara 55 not out)

Kerala vs Sikkim - KER 84/3 beat SIK 83 all out by seven wickets (Akhil Scaria 3/12, Abhijith Praveen 3/20, S Midhun 3/10)

Railways vs Tripura - Railways 286/6 beat Tripura 282/7 by four wickets(Sudip Chatterjee 83)

Odisha vs Pondicherry - Odisha 234/3 beat Pondicherry 230/6 by seven wickets (P Dogra 77* | S Senapati 77*)

Hyderabad vs Maharashtra - Maharashtra 316/7 beat Hyderabad 315/5 by three wickets (Tanmay Agarwal 103 | Ankeet Bawane 113)

Jharkhand vs Manipur - Jharkhand 286/5 beat Manipur 163/8 by 123 runs (Virat Singh 128, Varun Aaron 4/25 | Langlongyamba 86)

Meghalaya vs Services - Services 236/9 beat Meghalaya 207 all out by 29 runs (PS Poonia 51, 4/35)

Chandigarh vs Karnataka - Karnataka 299/6 beat Chandigarh 277/7 by 22 runs (Devdutt Padikkal 114 | Arslan Khan 102)

J&K vs Mizoram - J&K 332/6 beat Mizoram 150 all out by 182 runs (Vivrant Sharma 144)

Delhi vs Haryana - Haryana 293/6 beat Delhi 240 all out by 53 runs (Rahul Tewatia 99* and 3/53)

Bihar vs Uttarakhand - UTK 191 all out beat Bihar 116 all out (Rajan 5/28)

Punjab vs Tamil Nadu - Punjab 251 all out beat Tamil Nadu 175 by 76 runs(Mandeep Singh 68, Siddarth Kaul 5/50 | Dinesh Karthik 93)

Baroda vs Madhya Pradesh: Madhya Pradesh 266/6 beat Baroda 263/9 by four wickets

Goa vs Nagaland - Goa 383/6 beat Nagaland 151 by 232 runs (Suyash Prabhudessai 132 not out)

Arunachal Pradesh vs Himachal Pradesh - HP 64/0 beat AP 63 all out by 10 wickets (A Vashist 3/3)

Chhattisgarh vs Vidarbha - Vidarbha 282/6 beat Chhattisgarh 273/9 by nine runs (Dhruv Shorey 101 | Shashank Singh 154)

Assam vs Uttar Pradesh - UP 145/4 beat Assam 139/7 by six wickets

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Shashank Singh scored 154 but Chhattisgarh failed to reach the 283-run target by nine runs. 

A thriller but Kedhar Jadhav finishes it easily. Ankeet Bawne set up the chase with his 113 along with Kazi’s 80. Kartikeya Kak’s fifer and Tanmay’s ton in vain. 

Two wickets in two balls for Kartikeya. Completes his fifer. Naik holes out to deep mid wicket and Prashant Solanki is castled first ball. MAH need 5 from 4 balls.

Riding on Padikkal’s 114, Karnataka defeats Chandigarh by 122 runs. Arslan Khan’s 102 couldn’t help Chandigarh’s case. 

A comfortable 123 runs win for Jharkhand over Manipur who could only manage 163/8 in its 50 overs. Virat Singh scored 128 before Varun Aaron picked up a four-fer for Jharkhand.

Delhi is all out for 240 chasing 294. Rahul Tewatia is the star, scoring 99 not out and then picking three in his 10 overs. 

A last-over win for Railways as it chases down the 283-run target on the fifth ball of last over with four wickets in hand. 

J&K thumps Mizoram by 182 runs who was chasing 333. Vivrant Sharma (144) and Qamran Iqbal set up the game for J&K. 

Anish: Tanay Thyagarajan gets one to spin from middle and take off stump to dismiss Bawne for 113. MAH 267/5, need 49 from 34 balls.

A solid all-round performance by Odisha as it beats Pondicherry comfortably with seven wickets in hand. It chases down the 231-run target. Sandeep Pattnaik set up the chase with his 77 and Subhransu Senapati finished it with his unbeaten 77. 

Anish: A hundred of 97 balls for Ankeet Bawne. Brings it up with a six over square leg off a full toss. Azim Kazi is bowled immediately after with Kak picking up his third. 65 to win from 48.

Goa records a massive 232-run win after posting 383 on the board. Suyash Prabhudessai picks up the last wicket off his first delivery in the game. It’s quite been his day today, having notched up 132 not out off 81 balls.

Mayank Markande traps Natarajan for 2 and Tamil Nadu folds at 175 in a 76-run defeat. Punjab comes back hard with the ball after a middle-overs wobble with the bat and Dinesh Karthik’s heroic 93 goes in vain.

Anish: Azim Kazi completes his fifty as well from 59 balls. Hundred partnership runs also between him and Bawne. Maharaja will hope one of them can bat deep and finish the game off from here. 

Abhishek: Rahul Tewatia making a difference with the ball now. Pulls off a blinder off his own bowling to get Himmat Singh. 

Siddarth Kaul denies Dinesh Karthik a century and claims his seventh List A five-wicket haul. Kaul now has the most List A fifers among Indians.

Most fifers among Indians (recorded List A)

7 - Kaul 

6 - Amit Mishra 

5 = Ravi Shastri, Chahal, Shami

Dinesh Karthik moves to 89 off 78 deliveries. He has smashed 12 fours and foursixes and continues the charge for Tamil Nadu.

Abhishek: Anuj Rawat holes out at fine leg while hooking off Harshal Patel. 

Chandigarh is holding strong in the chase as young opener Arslan Khan slams his second hundred of the season off 100 deliveries. 

Anish: Fifty for Ankeet Bawne from 57 balls. Good partnership brewing with Azim Kazi. “Double it up” is the shout from the dugout. 

Abhishek: Another partnership broken for Delhi. Dhull reaches far out on his front foot to defend. Tewatia’s ball rises on him from a length, takes the glove and pops up in the air. The keeper runs forward to complete a simple catch. 

Shardul Thakur and Prasad Pawar lead Mumbai to a five-wicket win with a 74-run unbroken stand. Mumbai continues undefeated with its fifth win on the trot.

Himachal Pradesh chases down a 64-run target against Arunachal in just 5.4 overs. It is now the joint-second biggest win by balls to spare (266) in Indian List A cricket.

Biggest wins by balls to spare

267 - Railways v Rajasthan

266 = Mumbai v Goa, HP v AP*

Abhishek: Jonty Sidhu brings up his fifty with a glanced six off Sumit Kumar. But Chahal works out his wicket, getting him to top edge on a pull shot, in the next over. Yash Dhull walks out to bat.

Prerit Dutta strikes twice in two balls, dismissing Baba Indrajith stumped and Shahrukh Khan leg-before. Mayank Markande then traps Sai Kishore for a golden duck. Skipper Dinesh Karthik is now left to wage a lone battle.

Himmat Singh and Jonty Sidhu are chipping away at the target with singles. Himmat steps down and packs Nishant Sindhu straight down the ground. 

Kaushal Tambe’s middle stump goes for a toss as Rakshan gets his first wicket. MAH 85/3 in 16 overs.

Rain abandons Andhra vs Gujarat match without a ball bowled. 

Sarfaraz Khan too departs and Mumbai is now feeling the heat against Saurashtra. MUM 76/5

Abhishek: Just when Delhi was beginning to steer on track, Harshal Patel strangles Ayush Badoni down leg. The batter is in disbelief that is given out. Delhi 56/2 in 15th over.

Anish: Kartikeya yorks Siddharth Mhatre for 14. Second wicket for the pacer. 

Unadkat removes his counterpart Rahane for 12. Saurashtra is right back in it with four wickets. 

Siddharth Kaul removes the Tamil Nadu openers Sai Sudharsan and N Jagadeesan within his first four overs. 

Kaul bags his third wicket and TN is in a rut again. Baba Aparajith falls for three off nine deliveries. 

Anish: Om Bhosale and Kaushal Tambe’s solid start to the chase is cut short by Kartikeya Kak with his first ball. Bhosale nicks an extremely full ball to the keeper.

Abhishek: Haryana gets the first wicket. Priyansh Arya is left two-minded on a delivery outside off from Anshul Kamboj. It is too late by the time he decides to leave it, hands a feather to keeper. 

Jaydev Unadkat and Chirag Jani strike in quick succession after the break and Mumbai suddenly finds itself three down. Captain Ajinkya Rahane and Sarfaraz Khan have a job on their hands now.

Suved Parkar and Angkrish Raghuvanshi resume Mumbai’s 145-run chase after the lunch break. Saurashtra has no choice but to break through the top-order as early as possible.

Anish: A 33-ball 51 from Ravi Teja takes Hyderabad to 315/5 in 50 overs. Rahul unbeaten on 58 from 53 at the other end.

Mumbai vs Saurashtra - SAU 144 all out (C Pujara 55 not out)

Kerala vs Sikkim - KER 84/3 (13.2) bts SIK 83 all out

Railways vs Tripura - TRP 282/7 (Sudip Chatterjee 83)

Odisha vs Pondicherry - PDC 230/6 (P Dogra 77 not out)

Hyderabad vs Maharashtra - HYD 315/5 (Tanmay Agarwal 103)

Jharkhand vs Manipur - JHA 286/5 (Virat Singh 128)

Meghalaya vs Services - SER 236/9 (Dippu 4/38)

Chandigarh vs Karnataka - KAR 299/6 (Devdutt Padikkal 114) 

J&K vs Mizoram - J&K 332/6 (Vivrant Sharma 144)

Delhi vs Haryana - HAR 293/6 (Rahul Tewatia 99 not out)

Bihar vs Uttarakhand - UTK 191 all out (48.4) 

Punjab vs Tamil Nadu - PUN 251 all out (45.1) (Mandeep Singh 68)

Baroda vs Madhya Pradesh: BAR 263/9 (Kinit Patel 72)

Goa vs Nagaland - GOA 383/6 (Suyash Prabhudessai 132 not out)

Arunachal Pradesh vs Himachal Pradesh - AP opts to bat

Chhattisgarh vs Vidarbha - VID 201/3 in 35 overs

Rahul Tewatia finishes unbeaten on 99 off 70 deliveries to take his team to 293/6 in 50 overs. 128 runs for the seventh wicket between him and Sumit Kumar.

Sumit Kumar brings up his fifty in just 34 balls with a pull shot off Saini which clears the fence. 

Kerala chases down 84 runs against Sikkim in just 13.2 overs with seven wickets in hand. 

Anish: Ravi Teja is yorked by Pradeep Dadhe but he has overstepped and the batter survives. 

Suyash Prabhudessai reaches his hundred in just 68 balls. Goa has crossed the 300-run mark. GOA 308/3 in 45 overs

Abhishek: Sumit Kumar doubles up his partner. He’s pocketed three sixes in the last two overs. Two slap shots off Mayank Yadav slammed into the sight screen before another one off Ishant Sharma on the on side. Haryana 258/7 in 47 overs.

Jay Bista out cheaply as Saurashtra gets its first wicket defending 145 runs. Mumbai 6/1

Anish: Second run out of the innings as centurion Tanmay is dismissed on 103 after striker Buddhi Rahul sends him back while looking for a single. Ravi Teja joins Rahul at the crease. HYD 226/5

Mumbai openers are out in the middle to chase down 145 runs. Shouldn’t be a tough target to complete. 

Abhishek: Turning into a Rahul Tewatia show. He dug out a full length delivery from Navdeep Saini and tonked it over cover for six. In the next, he slog swept Tyagi for another maximum. Haryana 223/6 in 45 overs.

Captain Mandeep Singh reaches his fifty but Tamil Nadu has the upper hand over Punjab. PUN 212/8 

J&K’s Vivrant Sharma reaches his century in just 74 balls. J&K cruising at 222/2 in 41 overs against Mizoram. 

Anish: Hundred for Tanmay Agarwal off 113 balls. Cuts a slightly shortish delivery from Jadhav to point to bring up the milestone. Has not looked troubled at all in the knock so far. HYD 204/4 in 38 overs

Ankur Panwar is the last wicket to fall. He’s run out and Saurashtra is all out for 144. Pujara remains unbeaten on 55. 

Abhishek: Fifty for Rahul Tewatia in 44 balls. Has taken Haryana to 200 in his trademark counter attacking style. Gearing up for the final flourish. 200/6 in 43 overs.

A lone battle for Pujara and he raises his bat for his fifty. SAU 144/9

Anish: Avanish Rao’s short stay at the crease comes to an end. Gets a leading edge of an attempted lofted shot and is pouched easily at point. HYD 183/4 in 32.5 overs

Arslan Khan gets the big fish as Padikkal falls for 114 off 103 balls. Manish Pandey at the crease now. KAR 212/3 in 36th over

The defending champion is nine down for 125. Pujara still at crease though. How much can he stretch from here? 

Anish: Nitesh Reddy is trapped in front by Jadhav for 6. Hyderabad loses two wickets in no time after a good partnership. HYD 178/3 in 31.4 overs

Kerala openers are out in the middle chasing a paltry total of 84 against Sikkim. 

Abhishek: Ashok Menaria miscues his heave over mid-wicket, slices a full delivery and holes out at cover. 40 off 70 for the Haryana captain. Lalit Yadav with the wicket. HAR 165/6 in 39th over.

Anish: Kedar Jadhav scores a direct hit at the non-strikers to dismiss Rahul Singh. He goes for 69. HYD 169/2 in 30 overs

Akhil Scaria, Abhijeet Praveen, Midhun take three wickets each as Sikkim is bowled out for just 83 in 33.5 overs. 

Eighth List A hundred in 29 innings for Devdutt Padikkal, a 94-ball ton against Chandigarh. His List A average goes past 84, crossing 450 runs in just five innings in the Vijay Hazare Trophy. Karnataka 177/2 in 32.2 overs against Chandigarh

Abhishek: Rahul Tewatia launches a switch hit four off Harsh Tyagi. 15 runs from the over. 

Abhishek: Harsh Tyagi gets the all important wicket of Sindhu. Gets down on one knee and slog sweeps a length delivery. Mistimes and holes out at deep mid wicket. Two in two for Harsh Tyagi. Cramps R P Sharma for room and gets him caught behind. Haryana 120/5 in 31 over

Anish: Captain Rahul Singh brings up his fifty as well with slog sweep over deep mid wicket against Prashant Solanki. 

First wicket for Shardul Thakur as Vishvaraj falls for a duck. Saurashtra has lost half its men at the halfway mark. Prerak Mankad joins Pujara.

Abhishek: Ashok Menaria with a brave pop out of his crease against Ayush Badoni. Hits down the ground and beats Navdeep Saini at long on by the barest of margins. 

Cheteshwar Pujara continues to hold his end as Atharva Ankolekar removes Arpit Vasavada. Saurashtra is reeling and aiming to bat out the full 50 overs as Vishvarajsinh Jadeja joins Pujara.

Anish: Fifty for Tanmay Agarwal. Good knock so far finding boundaries regularly and keeping the runs flowing. 

Devdutt Padikkal has his fifth consecutive fifty-plus score in the tournament and sixth across formats. Karnataka rebuilds efficiently with the left-hander and Nikin Jose motoring along smoothly.

Abhishek: Nishant Sindhu reaches 50 off 47 deliveries. He’s been crucial in keeping Haryana in the game. 

Sindhu and Menaria arrest the slide for Haryana. They bring up their 50 partnership in the 19th over. Sindhu has been the more daring of the two with his nine boundaries while Menaria has rotated strike. 

Shams Mulani snaps Harvik Desai for 27 off 45 balls. A stoic association with Pujara ends and Saurashtra is back to square one. 

Anish: Fifty up for Hyderabad. Rahul Singh and Tanmay Agarwal have fought on after the first wicket. Few plays and misses but they managed to get a few boundaries with the bad balls. 

Tamil Nadu is right back in it as Warrier and Varun Chakaravarthy remove half-centurion Prabhsimran Singh and Anmolpreet Singh in succession. 

Abhishek: Three boundaries for Nishant Sindhu in Mayank Yadav’s over gives a much needed impetus to Haryana. 

Debutant Abhijith Praveen picks up his third wicket for Kerala as Sikkim collapses within the first hour.

Sai Kishore finds the perfect riposte, dismissing Abhishek in his second over. The left-hander’s belligerence ends at 23-ball 38.

Two quick wickets for Delhi. Navdeep Saini wins the battle with Himanshu Rana when he gets him caught bowled. Mayank Yadav moves it away from Yuvraj Singh who edges and gets pouched at second slip. 

Sandeep Sharma traps Agarwal on 19. Huge wicket for Chandigarh. Nikin Jose walks in to join Padikkal.

Abhishek Sharma smacks Sai Kishore for two sixes in his first over and Punjab continues the early rampage against the TN bowlers.

Akhil Scaria continues to impress for Kerala as he removes the Sikkim openers within his first three overs.

Axed from the Test side, Pujara would have a point to prove in this outing. He gets off the blocks with two fours as Saurashtra aims to recoup from the early jolts.

Abhishek: Ishant Sharma and Navdeep Saini have a stranglehold on the Haryana run rate. The only boundary so far has come off Himanshu Rana’s bat with a flick when Ishant overpitched one. 

Anish: Huge misunderstanding between the batters as Rohit Rayudu set off after tapping one to cover. Tanmay Agarwal was not interested in the single and Rayudu fails to get back to the strikers end on time. Early breakthrough for MAH.

Chandigarh’s ploy to start with spin from one end works as Murugan Ashwin cleans up R Samarth for five. In-form Devdutt Padikkal comes in at 3 to join Mayank Agarwal. 

Prabhsimran Singh and Abhishek Sharma take the aggressive route early on. Prabhsimran pumps Warrier for another four and six and puts TN under pressure. 

Jay Gohil falls early with Tushar Deshpande striking in his second over. Saurashtra’s pattern of top-order stutters persists. 

Mohit Avastha cleans up opener Tarrangohel for five as Saurashtra’s top-order woes seem to continue. 

Abhishek: Navdeep Saini strikes in his first over. Ankit Kumar nicks a delivery outside off stump to the keeper. 

Abhishek Sharma takes the early charge against Sandeep Warrier and strikes two fours in the first over. Warrier also concedes a couple of wides. 

Mumbai vs Saurashtra: Mumbai won the toss and elected to field

Kerala vs Sikkim: Sikkim won the toss and elected to bat

Railways vs Tripura: Railways won the toss and elected to field

Odisha vs Pondicherry: Odisha won the toss and elected to field

Hyderabad vs Maharashtra: Maharashtra won the toss and elected to field

Jharkhand vs Manipur: Jharkhand won the toss and elected to bat

Chhattisgarh vs Vidarbha: Toss delayed

Meghalaya vs Services: Meghalaya won the toss and elected to field

Chandigarh vs Karnataka: Karnataka won the toss and elected to bat

J&K vs Mizoram: Mizoram won the toss and elected to field

Delhi vs Haryana: Delhi won the toss and elected to field

Bihar vs Uttarakhand: Bihar won the toss and elected to field

Assam vs Uttar Pradesh: Toss delayed

Andhra vs Gujarat: Toss delayed

Arunachal Pradesh vs Himachal Pradesh: Toss delayed

Punjab vs Tamil Nadu: Tamil Nadu won the toss and elected to field

Baroda vs Madhya Pradesh: Baroda won the toss and elected to bat

Goa vs Nagaland: Nagaland won the toss and elected to field

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