Rahul Tiwari
khelja|16-01-2025
Karun Nair's name has been making waves in Indian cricket for the last few days. Captain Nair of Vidarbha cricket team scored such centuries in the last few innings, which surprised everyone. The impact of the brilliant performance of Captain Karun, who scored 4 consecutive centuries in the Vijay Hazare Trophy, has been seen on his fellow players as well and this feat was also seen in the semi-finals, where Vidarbha, batting first, scored a huge score of 380 runs against Maharashtra. Did. In this, both the openers of Vidarbha, Dhruv Shorey and Yash Rathod scored brilliant centuries.
Captain Karun missed his fifth consecutive century.In the second semi-final of Vijay Hazare Trophy in Vadodara on Thursday, January 16, Vidarbha's batsmen thrashed Maharashtra's bowlers in a one-sided manner. In this entire tournament till now, the batting of the team captain Karun Nair has been talked about, who had scored a total of 5 centuries in 4 and 6 consecutive innings before the semi-finals. Even in this semi-final match, all eyes were on him but before Karun could show his magic, the opening pair of the team had defeated the Maharashtra bowlers.
Dhruv Shorey, who was a part of Delhi cricket till some time ago, along with Yash Rathod made a tremendous partnership of 224 runs in 35 overs for the first wicket.
During this, first Yash completed his century in 90 balls. This is his second century in this tournament. Shortly after this, Dhruv Shorey also completed his century. Like his captain, Shorey also scored centuries in consecutive matches. Before this, he had also played an excellent century against Rajasthan in the quarter finals. Then 138 runs were scored from his bat. This time also he scored 114 runs, which included 14 fours and 1 six. This is the fifth century of 32 year old Shorey's List A career. Whereas Rathod returned to the pavilion after scoring 116 runs and he also hit 14 fours and 1 six.Both these batsmen gave a good start to Vidarbha but due to this, team captain Karun Nair could not score his fifth consecutive century. Nair, who came at number three, however, started explosive batting as soon as he came and played a big role in taking the team to a big score. Nair completed his half-century in just 35 balls and then increased the rain of fours and sixes.
He was not out till the end and returned after playing an astonishing inning of 88 runs in just 44 balls, which included 9 fours and 5 sixes. Apart from him, wicketkeeper-batsman Jitesh Sharma also scored 51 runs in 33 balls. He was not out till the end and returned after playing an astonishing inning of 88 runs in just 44 balls, which included 9 fours and 5 sixes. Apart from him, wicketkeeper-batsman Jitesh Sharma also scored 51 runs in 33 balls.