When captain Pandya failed, the team also failed, lost the match even after coming close to winning.

Rahul Tiwari

khelja|12-01-2025

These days quarter final matches are being played in Vijay Hazare Trophy. In a match of quarter final round, Maharashtra defeated Punjab by 70 runs. Whereas in another match, Karnataka defeated Baroda team by a margin of five runs. Karnataka bowlers performed brilliantly in this exciting match. Whereas Baroda captain Krunal Pandya was a flop. He definitely took one wicket in bowling. But he could not show much excellence in batting. If he flopped in batting, his team also collapsed. The result was that Baroda lost the match even after coming very close.

Krunal Pandya returned cheaply

Krunal Pandya is captaining the Baroda team in the Vijay Hazare Trophy. In the fourth quarter-final match of this tournament, his team had to face Karnataka. There was a close contest between the two teams but in this match, Krunal could not play a big innings for the team at the time of need. Krunal faced 28 balls and scored 30 runs. After hitting three fours and a six, Pandya was caught by Krishnan Sreejith. His wicket was taken by Vasuki Kaushik.

This was the condition of the match

The important match in Vijay Hazare Trophy between Karnataka and Baroda was played at Moti Bagh Stadium in Vadodara. In this match, Karnataka team batted first. Karnataka scored 281 runs losing 8 wickets in 50 overs. Devdutt Padikkal played a century innings for his team. Devdutt scored 102 runs in 99 balls and hit 17 boundaries. 15 fours and 2 sixes came from his bat. KV Avneesh scored 52 runs. Smaran Ravichandran and Krishnan Sreejith contributed 28 runs each. Krunal took one wicket for Baroda. Whereas Raj Limbani and Atit Sheth got three successes each.

Karnataka bowlers bowled hard

In response to the target of 282 runs set by Karnataka, Baroda's team collapsed to 276 runs. Shashwat Rawat played a century inning of 104 runs. Atit Sheth also contributed 56 runs. However, Baroda had to face defeat in front of the tight bowling of Karnataka bowlers. Vasuki Kaushik, Prasidh Krishna, Shreyas Gopal and Abhilash Shetty, all four bowlers took two wickets each.

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