Vijay Hazare Trophy Round 4 Highlights: Punjab Beat Mumbai By Eight Wickets; N Jagadeesan Slams 165; Karnataka Thrash AP

𒐪The group stage matches of Vijay Hazare Trophy 2024-25 will not be available to stream or watch on tv. The tournament can be streamed and watched on tv from the knockout stages on JioCinema and Sports18 network.

Uttar Pradesh♐ Squad: Abhishek Goswami, Aryan Juyal(w), Karan Sharma, Nitish Rana, Priyam Garg, Rinku Singh(c), Vipraj Nigam, Saurabh Kumar, Shivam Mavi, Yash Dayal, Aaqib Khan, Bihari Rai, Aaradhya Yadav, Karthikeya Jaiswal, Madhav Kaushik, Mohsin Khan, Vineet Panwar, Akshdeep Nath, Bhuvneshwar Kumar

Chhattisgarh𝓡 Squad: Bhupen Lalwani, Ashutosh Singh, Sanjeet Desai, Eknath Kerkar(w), Amandeep Khare(c), Shashank Singh, Gagandeep Singh, Shubham Agarwal, Jivesh Butte, Ravi Kiran, Ashish Chouhan, Ajay Jadav Mandal, Anuj Tiwary, Prateek Yadav, Aayush Pandey, Prashant Painkra, Sangeet Soni, Harsh Yadav

🌼Jammu and Kashmir have won the toss and have opted to field.

Tamil Nadu༺ Squad: N Jagadeesan(w), Tushar Raheja, Pradosh Ranjan Paul, Baba Indrajith, Vijay Shankar, Shahrukh Khan, Mohamed Ali, Ravisrinivasan Sai Kishore(c), Varun Chakaravarthy, Sandeep Warrier, CV Achyuth, Pranav Ragavendra, Andre Siddarth C, Boopathi Kumar, S Ajith Ram

Jammu and Kashmirꦉ Squad: Shubham Khajuria, Vivrant Sharma, Paras Dogra(c), Shubham Pundir, Abdul Samad, Shivansh Sharma(w), Abid Mushtaq, Auqib Nabi Dar, Rasikh Dar Salam, Qamran Iqbal, Musaif Ajaz, Yudhvir Singh Charak, Lone Nasir Muzaffar, Sunil Kumar, Sahil Lotra, Vanshaj Sharma

Vidarbha have won the toss and opted to bowl.

Vidarbha🍬 (Playing XI): Karun Nair(c), Dhruv Shorey, Yash Kadam, Yash Rathod, Jitesh Sharma(w), Shubham Dubey, Apoorv Wankhade, Yash Thakur, Darshan Nalkande, Harsh Dubey, Nachiket Bhute

Chandigarh♓ (Playing XI): Manan Vohra(c), Amrit Lubana, Shivam Bhambri, Tushar Joshi(w), Ankit Kaushik, Raj Bawa, Sandeep Sharma, Jagjit Singh, Nishunk Birla, Abhishek Saini, Nikhil Sharma

Punjab have won the toss and opted to bowl first at ADSA Railways Cricket Ground, Ahmedabad.

Punjab:📖 Abhishek Sharma (c), Prabhsimran Singh, Anmolpreet Singh, Nehal Wadhera, Anmol Malhotra (wk), Sanvir Singh, Ramandeep Singh, Naman Dhir, Arshdeep Singh, Raghu Sharma, and Prerit Dutta

Mumbai: Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Ayush Mhatre, Suryakumar Yadav, Shreyas Iyer ༺(c), Hardik Tamore (wk), Shivam Dube, Suryansh Shedge, Shardul Thakur, Himanshu Singh, Atharva Ankolekar, and Royston Dias.

Toss delayed due to wet outfield.

Gujarat🍷 Squad: Aarya Desai, Urvil Patel(w), Umang Kumar, Saurav Chauhan, Chintan Gaja(c), Kshitij Patel, Hemang Patel, Vishal Jayswal, Ravi Bishnoi, Arzan Nagwaswalla, Priyajitsing Jadeja, Jaymeet Patel, Abhishek Desai, Dhrushant Soni, Jayveer Parmar, Siddharth Desai, Axar Patel

Jharkhand⭕ Squad: Ishan Kishan(w/c), Utkarsh Singh, Kumar Deobrat, Virat Singh, Kumar Kushagra, Anukul Roy, Atul Singh Surwar, Bal Krishna, Vikash Singh, Manishi, Supriyo Chakraborty, Vikash Vishal, Aayush Bhardwaj, Vikas Kumar, Sharandeep Singh Bhatia, Varun Aaron

Bengal have won the toss and have opted to field.

Bengal🏅 (Playing XI): Abishek Porel(w), Karan Lal, Sudip Kumar Gharami(c), Sudip Chatterjee, Anustup Majumdar, Kaushik Maity, Sumanta Gupta, Mukesh Kumar, Pradipta Pramanik, Sayan Ghosh, Suraj Sindhu Jaiswal

Baroda🔜 (Playing XI): Shashwat Rawat, Ninad Ashvinkumar Rathva, Krunal Pandya(c), Hardik Pandya, Vishnu Solanki(w), Bhanu Pania, Shivalik Sharma, Raj Limbani, Mahesh Pithiya, Lukman Meriwala, Akash Maharaj Singh

Punjab start off in great fashion as Arshdeep Singh ಌhas picked up two early Mumbai wickets. Angkrish Raghuvanshi (1) and Ayush Mhatre (7) failed to get going but skipper Shreyas Iyer and Hardik Tamore are in the middle looking to rebuild.

𝕴Jammu and Kashmir won the toss and opted to bowl first, and the decision has worked well for them thus far as Tamil Nadu have lost two wickets. However, Narayan Jagadeeshan and Baba Indrajith have started to slowly rebuild.

🍸Arshdeep Singh has already taken a five-wicket haul in just seven overs and Mumbai are in deep, deep trouble.

Mumbai 64/6 (14)

൲Hardik Pandya's return has not gone as planned. The all-rounder has been sent back for 1 off just the second ball he faced. Pradipta Pramanik with the big wicket for Bengal.

Baroda 122/4 in 25.4 Overs

Sameer Rizvi misses half-century. Rizvi scored a well paced 48 before Shashank Singh gets his wicket. UP in trouble now.

184/6 in 36.0 Overs

෴Goa have been bowled out for just 92. Prashant and D Dhopala with three wickets each for Uttarakhand. It should be an easy chase for Uttarakhand.

𒈔Tamil Nadu have smashed 353/6 in 50 overs. N Jagadeesan scores a fantastic 165 off 147 balls. Baba Indrajith gets 78 off 76. Mohamed Ali, R Sai Kishore and Vijay Shankar too chip in with handy late cameos to stretch TN's score. Yudhvir Singh Charak is J&K's best bowler with two wickets for 66 runs in 10 overs.

J&K need 354 to win.

ꦇLower order takes Mumbai to 248 all out in 48.5 Overs. Arshdeep Singh takes five wickets for Punjab. Atharva Ankolekar is the top scorer for Mumbai with 66.

Punjab need 249 in 50 overs to win

ไChhattisgarh invited Uttar Pradesh to bat first and restricted them to 272 runs at the Vizzy Stadium in Vizianagaram. Abhishek Goswami and Shivam Mavi played half-centurion knocks and in-from Sameer Rizvi also made a crucial 48 runs which helped his team reach a respectable total.

♚Tamil Nadu seamer CV Achyuth has taken three early wickets of Jammu and Kashmir. Shubham Khajuria and Abdul Samad are leading the chase of 354 runs. Earlier, N Jagadeesan helped TN reach a big total of 353 runs with his 165-run knock.

𒉰In their fourth-round match of the Vijay Hazare Trophy 2024-25, Services batted first and made 162 runs. Arjun Sharma was the highest run-scorer for Services with his 39 runs. Pinninti Tapaswi took four wickets in the match.

💧Maharashtra are up against Himachal Pradesh in their fourth-round match in the Vijay Hazare Trophy 2024-25. Batting first, they made 360 runs thanks to dashing tons by SA Veer and Ankit Bawne. Vaibhav Arora took a five-wicket haul and Rishi Dhawan took three wickets in the match. Now, HP need 361 runs to win the match.

𒅌Odisha easily chased down the 101-run target in the 20th over to beat Manipur by nine wickets in their fourth-round match of the Vijay Hazare Trophy 2024-25 at the Jaipuria Vidyalaya Ground in Jaipur on Saturday.

♛Mayank Agarwal and Abhinav Manohar came to open the batting for Karnataka and went back unbeaten after successfully chasing 167-run target in just 14.2 overs. Captain Agarwal hit his another ton in just 45 balls. Manohar also remained unbeaten on 66 runs.

𒉰Chasing the target of 163 runs, Andhra opener Srikar Bharat and Ashwin Hebbar remained unbeaten and helped their team register a 10-wicket win over Services in the fourth-round match of the Vijay Hazare Trophy this season. Bharat made 86 and Hebbar made 66 in the lop-sided contest.

ಞFirst, Arshdeep Singh took a five-wicket haul to restrict Mumbai to just 248 runs. Then, Prabhsimran Singh played an unbeaten knock of 150 runs off just 101 balls to help his team win the match in just 29 overs. Captain Abhishek Sharma also hit 66 runs off just 54 balls in the win.

MP Beat Tripura

꧙Madhya Pradesh won their fourth-round match of the Vijay Hazare Trophy 2024-25 against Tripura by eight wickets. Batting first, Tripura could only make 189 runs and MP chased down the target in 21 overs with eight wickets to spare. Harsh Gawli was named Player of the Match.

Bengal Beat Baroda

꧟Bengal also won their fourth-round match against Baroda in Hyderabad by seven wickets on Saturday. Pandya Brothers (Krunal and Hardik) failed to put any impression on the match but other players managed to score 228 runs on the board. Bengal, in response, took 43 overs to reach the target as Anustup Mujumdar made an unbeaten 99.

Uttarakhand Beat Goa

♔Uttarakhand defeated Goa by eight wickets in the fourth-round match of the Vijay Hazare Trophy 2024-25. Batting first, Goa made only 92 runs which Uttarakhand chased down easily in the 19th over with eight wickets to spare.

⭕The fourth-round of the Vijay Hazare Trophy 2024-25 ended with many interesting battles among competitive teams of the Indian domestic circuit. The fifth-round matches will be played on Tuesday, 31st December 2024. Join us then. Until then, goodbye and take care!