Jaipur: Karnataka, Vidarbha and Madhya Pradesh will have a slight advantage over their respective opponents in three pre-quarter-finals of the Vijay Hazare trophy to be played here on Sunday.
While Vidarbha Fazal-LED Faiz must go as a favorite against Tripura’s small fish, it will be the same clash with Karnataka taking Rajasthan which is equally optimistic at Kl Saini Stadium.
The third quarter quarter between two neighboring countries – Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh – also promised to become an interesting affair where the first will be seconded to the performance of Venkatesh Iyer, which shines in the series of debut towards New Zealand, and which in the end can be a difference between the two sides.
Coming to Vidarbha, they will depend on the performance of the fazal skipper, who always delivered a big stage and comes Sunday, he will target another big beat.
However, he will need support from people like Athara Taide, Ganesh Satish, Yash Rathod and Akshay Wadkar to tame Tripura’s attack.
On the front bowling, Young Pacer Yash Thakur is among the goal and is the second highest goalkeeper of the league stage with 14 scalp.
The role of the co-Pacer Darshan Nkande and spiced outside the spinner Akshay Wakhare and Aditya Sarwate’s left arm spinner would be the key to their chances to make the last eight.
Tripura, who has won all their five matches in the plate group, will have to get out of clinical shows, to surprise.
In the MP vs up game, the focus will be in Lanky Southpaw Iyer, who has hissed with bats on the league stage.
The left-handed opener, revelation after the last IPL season, can take a good attack for cleaners and ups will not be an exception.
Iyer has so far collected 349 running from five matches.
For MP, other important gears on the wheel are Shubham Sharma Batsman, which has so far scored 335 runs on the league stage.
But other batteries also need to play their part to perfection against quality attacks, which boast of sailors such as Yash Dayal and Shivam Mavi.
For, which was runner-up last season, they would be eager to move forward.
And for that happened, the opening of Madhav Kaushik and goalkeeper’s dough goalkeeper Aryal Juyal needs to come well and tame the MP attack led by Avesh Khan.
The middle order up also needs to come well.
Clashes of Rajasthan versus Karnataka can be mentioned as the same battle but Karnataka has more playing experience in KO can have the advantage.
This will be a battle between Batter Karnataka – Ravikumar Samarth, Rohan Kadam, Manish Pandey, Karun Nair, against people like Khaleel Ahmed, Aniket Choudhary, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Ravi Bishham and Shubham Sharma.
But if Rajasthan must make the last 8, their dough must provide, the other Karnataka can take home easily.
Fixturesvidarbha vs Tripura at the Arbish Mansingh Stadium, 9 in the morning.
Karnataka vs Rajasthan in Kl Saini Stadium, 9 Morning Uttar Pradesh vs Madhya Pradesh in Jaipuriya Vidhyalaya, 9 in the morning.