Rajkot: Promising Venkatesh Iyer who promises to continue its sensational form with bats and balls when Madhya Pradesh Pipped Chandigarh with five runs in Group D High Score Throuther of Vijay Hazare National Trophy One-Dayers on Sunday.
Venkatesh, which is seen as the prospect of India to fill the pandya hardik slot across the white ball format, blocks the road to 113-Ball 151 (8×4, 10×6) to give Madhya Pradesh to 331/9 which is challenging.
Chandigarh responded with a centuries of Skipper Manan Vohra (105) and Ankit Kaushik (111) and needed 32 runs from the last 12 balls.
Bowling The Penulimate Over, Venkatesh gave a breakthrough again Porinder Singh on the way to 2/64 of the 10 overs including a girl as Chandigarh could only manage 326/8.
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https://t.co/FN7HIZTBQ6- BCCI Domestic (@bccidomestic) 1639296687000Madhya Pradesh Young Pistol Avesh Khan led the Bowling show with 3/72, while Puneet Renty also stormed with two goals along with Venkates.
The victory helped Madhya Pradesh (+0,590) remained in the second place behind Kerala (+0.778) which was nosed on the Group D table with a five-goal victory over Chhattisgarh.
Maharashtra (+0.074) slipped into third place even though four of their goal won over Uttarakhand because this was a three-way race for KO from the death group – D – with one match left in the league.
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👏 👏 #mpvutca #vijayhazaretrropri https://t.co/iiow2atc2n- BCCI Domestic (@bccidomestic) 1639291421000Opting to Bat at the Cricket Saurashtra Association Stadium here, Madhya Pradesh Down in the Opener Loses Kuldeep Gehi (0) and Rajat Patidar (2) Cheap and reduced to 56/4 in 14 overs.
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6, Venkatesh soaked pressure on the company with captain Aditya Shrivastava (70 off 80 balls; 4×4, 1×6), 122 stitching duo runs for the fifth goal to repair early damage.
Venkatesh displays a few helling clean and reaches HalfCentury in 45 balls and then goes further to reach the third list of Seabad, the second in three matches, in just 88 balls.
He only took 22 balls to roaming to 150 and took Madhya Pradesh past 300-mark.
Venkatesh now has 348 run out of four innings with a breakfaced speed 138.64 to be the second behind Maharashtra ‘Run Machine’ Ruturaj Gaikwad on the biggest list of the Vijay Hazare trophy this season.
In the form of his life, Ruturaj, who had three centuries in Trot, saw the average law of pursuit of lag because he only contributed to 21 in their pursuit of 252 against Uttarakhand on the land of Cricket Madhavrao Scindia here.
But it was Ankit Bawne who won the noble unbeaten victory, directed them home in the second shipment behind.
Kerala gave a big boost for their net circuit to brighten their qualification expectations, defeating Chhattisgarh with five names with 93 spare balls.
Sijomon Joseph was the main architect of their big victory when the spinner left arm returned with an amazing 5/33 for Chhattisgarh floors until 189 were trivial at 46.2 overs after they chose the bat at the Cricket Saurashtra Association Stadium “C”.
In return, Kerala suffered from Triple Blow into their pursuit when they lost the Rohan Kunnummal (36) appetizer, Mohammed Azharuddeen (45) and Skipper Sanju Samson (0) without addition.
There were more dramas in the store when they lost baby Sachin (4) to be reduced to 89/4 but no 3 Vinoop Manoharan survived with consisting of 54 did not come out to seal the pursuit.
Short score of pradesh 331/9; 50 OVERS (VENKATESH IYER 151, Aditya Shrivastava 70; Jagjit Singh 3/69, Sandeep Sharma 2/62) defeated Chandigarh 326/8; 50 Overs (Ankit Kaushik 111, Manan Vohra 105; Avesh Khan 3/72, Venkatesh 2/64, Puneet Datingy 2/65) by Five Run.
Uttarakhand 251/6; 50 Overs (Swapnil Singh 66, Tanush Gerain 55, Vaibhav Bhatt 41 Not Out; Zope Jagdish 2/45, Mukesh Choudhary 2/68) Lost to Maharashtra 252/6; 49.5 Overs (Ankit Bawne 113 Not Out, Naushad Shaikh 47) by four nose.
Chhattisgarh 189; 46.2 Overs (Harpreet Singh 98; Sijomon Joseph 5/33, M D Nidheesh 2/21, Basil Thampi 2/38) lost to Kerala 193/5; 34.3 Overs (Vinoop Manoharan 54 did not come out, Mohammed Azharuddeen 45; Ajay Mandal 3/27, Sumit Ruikar 2/63) by five numbers.
Vijay Hazare: Venkatesh Iyer star in MP Win vs Chandigarh
