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Vidarbha captain Karun Nair has scored 752 runs in the current season of Vijay Hazare Trophy.
Vidarbha made it to the final of Vijay Hazare Trophy for the first time. The team defeated Maharashtra by 69 runs in the semi-finals played in Vadodara on Thursday. Batting first, Vidarbha scored 380 runs losing 3 wickets, in reply Maharashtra team could score only 311 runs.
Vidarbha will face Karnataka in the final on February 18. Karnataka defeated Haryana in the semi-finals and made it to the title match for the 5th time. The team has won 4 titles before this. On the other hand, Vidarbha is already waiting for the Vijay Hazare title.
Openers gave excellent start to Vidarbha Maharashtra won the toss and chose bowling at Kotambi Stadium. Vidarbha got an excellent start by the opening pair of Dhruv Shorey and Yash Rathore. Both of them batted till the 35th over and made a partnership of 224 runs. Yash was out after scoring 116 runs and the partnership between the two broke. Dhruv again could not last long and was out after scoring 114 runs. He could only add 21 runs for the second wicket with captain Karun Nair, who came at number-3.
Dhruv Shorey made a partnership of 224 runs with Yash Thakur.
Nair-Jitesh hit fifty After the fall of 2 wickets, Nair took over the innings with wicketkeeper Jitesh Sharma. Both of them took the team’s score to 338 runs in 48 overs. Jitesh was out after scoring 51 runs on 33 balls, he hit 3 fours and 3 sixes in the innings. Shubham Dubey, who came after him, scored 5 runs on 2 balls.
Karun scored 42 runs for the team in the last 2 overs. 18 runs were scored in the 49th over and 24 runs were scored in the last over. Nair remained not out after scoring 88 runs on 44 balls. He hit 9 fours and 5 sixes in his innings. He also made a partnership of 93 runs with Jitesh. From Maharashtra, Mukesh Chaudhary took 2 wickets and Satyajit Bachhav took 1 wicket.
Nair in excellent form this season Vidarbha captain Karun Nair is in excellent form this season. He has scored 752 runs in the tournament at an average of 752, which also includes 5 centuries. He also scored a century in the quarterfinal against Rajasthan. Nair was out only once this season against UP, he could not make any out in 6 out of the remaining 8 innings. Whereas his batting did not come against Mizoram.
Karun Nair has scored 5 centuries in the current season of Vijay Hazare Trophy.
Bad start for Maharashtra Maharashtra team, which came to chase the target of 381 runs, had a bad start. Captain Ruturaj Gaikwad was caught behind after scoring 7 runs in the third over itself. Darshan Nalkande sent him to the pavilion. Rahul Tripathi also scored quickly, but he returned to the pavilion in the 9th over after scoring 27 runs.
Kulkarni missed scoring a century Arshin Kulkarni and Siddhesh Veer took charge of Maharashtra after losing 2 wickets before 50 runs. Both teams took their score beyond 100 runs. Siddhesh again got out after scoring 30 runs. After him, Kulkarni made a partnership of 94 runs with Ankit Bawne. Arshan was out after scoring 90 runs, after him Bawne also returned to the pavilion after scoring 50 runs.
Arshin Kulkarni scored 90 runs, but could not lead his team to victory.
In the end Azim Qazi scored 29, Satyajit Bachhav scored 20, Nikhil Nayak scored 49 and Mukesh Chaudhary scored 2 runs. However, these scores were not enough for the team’s victory. Maharashtra could score only 311 runs after losing 7 wickets in 50 overs and the team lost the semi-final by 69 runs. Darshan Nalkande and Nachiket Bhute from Vidarbha took 3 wickets each. Parth Rekhade got 1 success.
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