Vijay Hazare Trophy 2023 Highlights, Round 3: Tamil Nadu beats Bengal by 5 wickets, Karnataka, Haryana and Vidarbha register wins

Maharashtra 255/8 (40 overs) vs Vidarbha 261/5 (39.1 overs)

Vidarbha won by 5 wickets

Assam 114/5 vs Andhra 112 all out

Assam won by 5 wickets

Mumbai 324/5 vs Railways 298/9

Mumbai won by 26 runs

Rajasthan 211 vs Uttar Pradesh 151

Rajasthan won by 60 runs

Sikkim 131 vs Puducherry 134/2

Puducherry won by 8 wickets

Arunachal Pradesh 159 vs Gujarat 160/2

Gujarat won by 8 wickets

Madhya Pradesh 177 vs Punjab 89

Madhya Pradesh won by 88 runs

Jharkhand 339/5 vs Meghalaya 127/3

Jharkhand won by 92 runs

Kerala 286/9 vs Odisha 208

Kerala won by 78 runs

Uttarakhand 275/5 vs Mizoram 138

Uttarakhand won by 137 runs (VJD Method)

Bengal 84 vs Tamil Nadu 85/5

Tamil Nadu won by 5 wickets

Hyderabad 271/9 vs Chhattisgarh 273/4

Chhattisgarh won by 6 wickets

Baroda 299/5 vs Nagaland 159/8

Baroda won by 140 runs

Manipur 159/9 vs Services 160/1

Services won by 9 wickets

Delhi 143 vs Karnataka 144/4

Karnataka won by 6 wickets

Bihar vs Jammu and Kashmir

Match abandoned due to wet outfield

Haryana 295/6 vs Chandigarh 211

Haryana won by 84 runs

Tripura 258/8 vs Saurashtra 110

Tripura won by 148 runs

Devdutt Padikkal smashed a brilliant half-century as Karnataka hammered Delhi by six wickets in Ahmedabad. Having bundled out Delhi for 143, Karnataka suffered an early jolt by losing Samarth and Mayank. However, Padikkal steadied the chase and helped his team overhaul the target in 27.3 overs.

Anish: Fifty partnership between Harsh and Shubham Dubey off just 39 balls. VID need 43 runs to win from 35 balls.

Anish: Another wicket for Kazi as Akshay Wadkar gets a leading edge on his attempted lofted shot and gives an easy catch to cover. 

After bundling out Bengal for 84, Tamil Nadu lost half its side but overhauled the target with five wickets to spare. Sandeep Warrier was the pick of the bowlers with four wickets, while N Jagadeesan top-scored in a low-scoring affair with a 45-ball 30. 

Anish: Vidarbha’s hopes suffer a big blow as Aman Mokhade provides a simple catch to cover off Azim Kazi. He departs for 61.

Parameeswaran Sivaraman scored a sublime unbeaten 64 off 88 balls with six boundaries and two sixes and along with Jay Pande gunned down Sikkim’s total of 132 runs in 32.5 overs to seal the deal with eight wickets in hand.

Abhishek: Suyash Sharma breaks the partnership between Padikkal and Nikin Jose. The latter tries to play him off the back foot and gets leg before.

Anish: Senior Pro Karun Nair departs immediately after as a ball that kept very low from Azim Kazi sees his stumps disturbed. 

Anish: Atharva Taide finds deep mid-wicket with his attempted slog sweep. He goes for 60 off 45 balls. First wicket for Vicky Ostwal.

Urvil Patel smashed a brilliant unbeaten century off just 41 balls as Gujarat trounced Arunachal Pradesh by eight wickets in Chandigarh.

Mayank Yadav brings the end of Mayank Agarwal. Squares him up and moves it away to clip the top of the stumps. 

Abhishek: Harshit Rana uses the short ball to great effect. Gets Samarth to top edge to fine leg where Ishant Sharma takes the catch. 

Anish: Early jolt for Vidarbha in the chase as Sanjay Ramaswamy nicks to second slip off the bowling of PC Dadhe. 

After shooting out Sikkim for 131 in 47.1 overs, Puducherry is 42/1 in 10 overs and needs another 90 runs to win the match in Alur. 

Sibsankar Roy and Rishav Das are in the middle with Assam needing just 45 runs to beat Andhra Pradesh chasing 113. 

Anish: Nikhil Naik smashes four sixes in the last over off Karnewar and nonchalantly walks off the field. Three smoked down the ground and one reverse swept for six. MAH finishes on 255/8 in 40 overs.

Abhishek: Ishant Sharma is the last man to fall, holing out to mid off against Kaverappa. 

Abhishek: Badoni falls trying to pull a full toss against Kaverappa. Just two deliveries back he was put down at mid off by Gowtham. But Nikin Jose makes no mistake at deep square leg. 

Gujarat’s Urvil Patel smashes the second-fastest List A hundred by an Indian off 41 balls against Arunachal Pradesh in a 159-run chase. His previous best in nine List A innings was 29. 

Manisankar Murasingh dismisses Harvik Desai and Chirag Jani in the space of three deliveries in the fourth over. Saurashtra is in a rut again as Cheteshwar Pujara joins Sheldon Jackson.

Abhishek: A century for Ayush Badoni in 102 balls. He’s commanded strike and taken Delhi close to 150 runs. 

Jharkhand opener Kumar Deobrat smacks 164 off 132 deliveries with 11 sixes and as many fours in his knock against Meghalaya.

Bhuvneshwar Kumar picks up four wickets as Uttar Pradesh dismisses Rajasthan for 211. Skipper Nitish Rana and Kartik Tyagi picked up three wickets apiece.

Anish: FIFER for Nalkande! Solanki is castled for 6. Four wickets in two overs for the pacer.

Anish: Bawne is trapped in front by Nalkande for 82. Ramakrishna Ghosh is bowled soon after. Make it three in the over. Nalkande on fire. Vicky Ostwal is cleaned up the first ball. 

Led by Sandeep Warrier’s four-wicket haul, Bengal has been bowled out for 84 by Tamil Nadu. 

Anish: Kazi falls after a quick start for 15. Mistimes an attempted lofted shot down the ground. Good catch running backwards by Shubham Dubey. Nalkande picks his first wicket. 

Saurashtra vs Tripura - TRI 258/8 (50) - Ganesh Satish 71, Unadkat 5/35

Kerala vs Odisha - KER 286/9 (50) - Vishnu Vinod 120, Abhishek Yadav 4/62

Mumbai vs Railways - MUM 324/5 (50) - Jay Bista 144*

Pondicherry vs Sikkim - SIK 131 all out (47.1)

Maharashtra vs Vidarbha - MAH 191/3 (31.4)

Jharkhand vs Meghalaya - JHA 235/3 (36) 

Chhattisgarh vs Hyderabad - HYD 271/9 (50) - Rohit Rayudu 102

Manipur vs Services - MAN 159/9 (50), SER 7/0 (1)

Delhi vs Karnataka - DEL 97/7 (27)

Chandigarh vs Haryana - HAR 55/2 (12.3)

Andhra vs Assam - AND 112 all out (31.5) - Akash Sengupta 5/20, Assam 47/4 (9)

Rajasthan vs Uttar Pradesh - RAJ 197/7 (45.5)

Arunachal Pradesh vs Gujarat - AP 159 all out (28.1) v Gujarat 98/1 (8)

Bengal vs Tamil Nadu - BEN 80/8 (21)

Bihar vs J&K - TOSS DELAYED

Mizoram vs Uttarakhand - MIZ 132/1 (20.4)

Madhya Pradesh vs Punjab - MP 28/1 (4.4)

Baroda vs Nagaland - BAR 113/3 (20.2)

Fifty for Badoni off 61 balls, gets it with a slog through mid wicket against Suchith. Five fours and two sixes on his way.

Vishnu Vinod’s 85-ball 120 and a late flourish from Abdul Bazith (48 not out off 27 balls) help Kerala to a fine total against Odisha.

Abhishek: Vyshak cleans up Harshit Rana to leave Delhi seven down. Gives a good stare as a parting gift for the batter. 

Anish: Breakthrough for Vidarbha. Om Bhosale falls to Yash Thakur for a well made 82. A slower short ball and Om’s leading edge finds backward point.

Abhishek: Pranshu Vijayran is the next to walk back. He perishes trying to slash off Krishnappa Gowtham but hands an edge to the keeper.

Jay Bista’s unbeaten 144 has propelled Mumbai to a commanding total against Railways.

Anish: Fifty for Om Bhosale with a pull shot over midwicket against Nalkande. Hundred up for Maharashtra as well. 

Anish: Bawne has looked postive in the middle so far. Fifty partnership up with Om Bhosale in just 52 balls. Have not let the spinners dictate terms. 

Vishnu Vinod becomes Kerala’s leading century-maker in List A cricket with his sixth hundred. He leads the side from 75/4 past 200 against Odisha after the dismissals of Sanju Samson and Sachin Baby. 

Abhishek: Another wicket for Koushik. Lalit Yadav is castled on the first delivery he faces. 

Abhishek: Yash Dhull plays an expansive drive, extends his hands too far from the body. BR Sharath pouches the nick behind the stumps and Vyshak has his first scalp.

Amol: Minutes after resumption, Sandeep Warrier forces a nick off Bengal captain Sudeep Gharami in the slip cordon. 12/3 in the 4th. TN right on top.

Five wickets (5/20) for Akash Sengupta within six overs as Andhra folds for a paltry 112 against Assam.

Abhishek: Ayush Badoni charges down the wicket and lofts a six into the sight screen against Koushik. 

Anish: Kedar Jadhav sees his stumps knocked back after missing a sweep off Karnewar. He’s out for 6.

Abhishek: Karnataka on top here. Koushik traps Himmat Singh leg before to get his second wicket. 

Mumbai opener Jay Bista hits a 108-ball hundred as he steers the innings against Railways. Mumbai crosses 200 in the 39th over.

Abhishek: Devdutt Padikkal leaps in the air to his right to grab a blinder and ends Priyansh Arya’s stay. He was again looking to drive through cover but ends up lofting it. 

Mohammad Saif cleans up Ajinkya Rahane for three. Bista still stranded in the 90s as Sarfaraz Khan walks in. 

Abhishek: Priyansh Arya with three cover drives off Vidwath Kaverappa has got Delhi going. Yash Dhull finds the fence with a clip through square leg against Koushik.

Anish: Umesh Yadav strikes in his fourth over. Naushad Shaikh nicks off to the keeper for 3. 

Amol: Natarajan strikes off the third ball. Abhimanyu Easwaran’s off-stump is uprooted. And Bengal - with an eye on seeing off the new ball in overcast conditions - sends Akash Deep in at No 3

Saurashtra vs Tripura - TRI 138/2 (30)

Kerala vs Odisha - KER 129/5 (29)

Mumbai vs Railways - MUM 183/2 (34)

Pondicherry vs Sikkim - SIK 72/7 (31)

Maharashtra vs Vidarbha - MAH 17/0 (5.3)

Jharkhand vs Meghalaya - JHA 57/1 (13.5)

Chhattisgarh vs Hyderabad - HYD 138/3 (29.4)

Manipur vs Services - MAN 101/7 (33.4)

Delhi vs Karnataka - DEL 12/1 (2.3)

Chandigarh vs Haryana - HAR 55/2 (12.3)

Andhra vs Assam - AND 99/6 (27.2)

Rajasthan vs Uttar Pradesh - RAJ 64/2 (23)

Arunachal Pradesh vs Gujarat - AP 129/8 (28.1)

Bengal vs Tamil Nadu - BEN 4/1 (2)

Bihar vs J&K - TOSS DELAYED

Mizoram vs Uttarakhand - TOSS DELAYED

Madhya Pradesh vs Punjab - TOSS DELAYED

Baroda vs Nagaland - TOSS DELAYED

Akash Pandey dismiss a well-set Suved Parkar stumped for 57. His partner Jay Bista, meanwhile, has moved into the 90s with captain Ajinkya Rahane walking in at 4.

Abhishek: V Koushik strikes with his first delivery. Gets Anuj Rawat to press ahead and traps him leg before. 

Vishnu Vinod guides Kerala past 100 after a top-order wobble. Sachin Baby, centurion in the previous game, was the latest fall for two off 29 deliveries.

Jay Bista’s half-century has propelled Mumbai past the 100-run mark. Suved Parkar has also gotten off to a good start, moving into the 30s in quick time.

Delhi: Anuj Rawat, Priyansh Arya, Yash Dhull, Ayush Badonk, Himmat Singh, Lalit Yadav, Pranshu Vijayran, Suyash Sharma, Ishant Sharma, Harshit Rana, Mayank Yadav

Karnataka: Mayank Agarwal, Samarth R, Devdutt Padikkal, Manish Pandey, Nikin Jose, Krishnappa Gowtham, BR Sharath, J Suchith, Vyshak Vijaykumar, Vidwath Kaverappa, V Koushik

Abhishek: The confirmation comes in for an 11am start. The game is reduced to 38 overs .

Amol: Next inspection at CCI is at 10.30 am. Plenty of sawdust being used to dry up wet patches just outside the 30-yard circle.

Abhishek: Yash Dhull and Mayank Agarwal walk to the middle with the team sheets all ready for the toss. The umpires have a word and send them back. L ikely to be a 39 over match. Toss at 10:30 am. Start at 11 am.

Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Yash Dayal constrict the Rajasthan top-order with tight spells. Bhuvneshwar found the first wicket with the dismissal of YB Kothari for a 11-ball duck. Just two boundaries have come in the first ten overs.

Anish: Slight drizzle has started at the ground. Very minimal but extends the delay to the start of the game.

Hanuma Vihari and Shaikh Rasheed fall in the space of six deliveries as Assam spoils Andhra’s positive start.

Anish: Covers coming onto the pitch with the light fading even more. The whole square is now covered.

Rohan Kunnummal and Sanju Samson fall in succession as Odisha triggers a top-order collapse for Kerala.

Abhishek: The next inspection at 10:15am. There seems a patch adjacent to the pitch which the umpires are concerned about. Yash Dhull and Mayank Agarwal were present at the last one and there was lengthy deliberation over that particular area.

A R Pandey finds a breakthrough in his first over against Mumbai. Ankrish falls caught-behind on 30. Suved Parkar enters at number three.

Rohan Kunnummal and Sanju Samson lead Kerala past fifty in 7.2 overs against Odisha.

Prayash Kumar Singh traps Azharuddeen for 12 and Kerala loses its first wicket. Captain Sanju Samson walks in at 3.

Angkrish Raghuvanshi and Jay Bista walk out for Mumbai against Railways. 

Mohammaed Azharuddeen and Rohan Kunnummal open the batting for Kerala against Odisha. Eight runs come off Rajesh Mohanty’s first over.

Abhishek: Next inspection at 9:30 am. 

Saurashtra vs Tripura - Saurashtra won the toss and elected to field

Kerala vs Odisha - Kerala won the toss and elected to bat

Mumbai vs Railways - Railways won the toss and elected to field

Pondicherry vs Sikkim - Sikkim won the toss and elected to bat 

Maharashtra vs Vidarbha - Vidarbha won the toss and elected to field

Jharkhand vs Meghalaya - Meghalaya won the toss and elected to field

Chhattisgarh vs Hyderabad - Chhattisgarh won the toss & elected to field

Manipur vs Services - Services won the toss and elected to field

Delhi vs Karnataka - Karnataka won the toss and elected to field

Bihar vs J&K - TOSS DELAYED

Chandigarh vs Haryana - Chandigarh won the toss and elected to field

Mizoram vs Uttarakhand - Mizoram won the toss and elected to field

Andhra vs Assam - Assam won the toss and elected to field

Rajasthan vs Uttar Pradesh - Uttar Pradesh won the Toss and elected to field

Arunachal Pradesh vs Gujarat - Gujarat won the toss and elected to field

Madhya Pradesh vs Punjab - TOSS DELAYED

Bengal vs Tamil Nadu - Tamil Nadu won the toss and elected to field

Baroda vs Nagaland - TOSS DELAYED