Rahul Tiwari
khelja|18-01-2025
The Vijay Hazare Trophy 2024-25, which was going on for 27 days, has reached its end. The teams of Karnataka and Vidarbha clashed in the title match on Saturday 18 January. Karnataka, batting first in the match, has scored a huge score like a mountain in front of Vidarbha. Karnataka's batsmen batted brilliantly against Vidarbha. Two batsmen faked half centuries while one batsman Ravichandran Smaran scored a brilliant century. This 21 year old batsman scored a century and hit 10 boundaries in the final match.
Young batsman Ravichandran Smaran made important contributions with the bat for his team in a big match like the final. He played a total innings of 109 runs in 92 balls. Till now, Vidarbha's ace batsman Karun Nair has been seen taking a lot of news about the opposing bowlers in this tournament, but now the memory of his team's bowlers has taken a lot of news. His century innings included 10 boundaries. Apart from seven fours, he also hit three sixes. Smaran's strike rate was more than 109.
The title match between Vidarbha and Karnataka is being played at Kotambi Stadium in Vadodara. The command of Karnataka is in the hands of Mayank Agarwal while the command of Vidarbha is being handled by Karun Nair who has scored five centuries so far this season. Karnataka team batted brilliantly in the final match. Batting first, Karnataka scored 348 runs on the board losing 6 wickets in 50 overs. Apart from Smaran, other batsmen also wreaked havoc on Vidarbha bowlers.
Karnataka did not have a good start in the title match. He lost his three wickets for just 67 runs. Devdutt Padikkal was out on the score of 23, KV Anish was out on the score of 64 and captain Mayank Agarwal was also out till the score of 67. But after this a great partnership was seen between the Karnataka batsmen. Apart from Smaran's century, two half centuries also came from Karnataka. Krishnan Sreejith scored 78 runs in 74 balls with the help of 9 fours and 1 six. Apart from this, Abhinav Manohar also batted stormily. He scored a quick 79 runs in 42 balls with the help of 4 sixes and 10 fours.