Vijay Hazare Trophy is the biggest tournament of List A format in Indian cricket. It is through this tournament that players stake their claim for a place in the Indian ODI team. In this tournament being played between 38 teams, fans are getting to see many matches. On Monday, a stormy innings was also seen in the match played between the teams of Maharashtra and Services. This inning was played by Maharashtra team captain Rituraj Gaikwad. Rituraj Gaikwad hit fours and sixes in this match and led his team to a one-sided victory.

Rituraj Gaikwad played a stormy innings

In this match played between the two teams, Ruturaj Gaikwad won the toss and decided to bowl first. The bowlers proved his decision right. Batting first, the Services team could play only 48 overs and were all out after scoring 204 runs. From Services, captain Mohit Ahlawat scored the highest score of 61 runs. Apart from him, no other batsman could touch the 30 run mark. On the other hand, for Maharashtra team, Pradeep Dadhe and Satyajit Bachhav took maximum 3-3 wickets.

In such a situation, Maharashtra team got the target of 205 runs to win this match, but it proved to be very small in front of Rituraj Gaikwad's innings. While opening, Rituraj Gaikwad scored runs very fast and showed aggressive attitude against every bowler. In this innings he scored unbeaten 148 runs on 74 balls. Rituraj Gaikwad hit 16 fours and 11 sixes in his innings. Let us tell you, during this innings, Rituraj took only 57 balls to reach 100 runs and achieved this target in just 20.2 overs.

Maharashtra's second consecutive victory

Maharashtra team has made a very good start in this tournament. She has been successful in winning both her initial matches. Before Services, Maharashtra faced Rajasthan. In that match also, Maharashtra team had won by 3 wickets. However, Rituraj Gaikwad's bat remained calm against Rajasthan. He was out after scoring 1 run on 5 balls. But this time he proved to be the biggest match winner for his team.