Hyderabad: Skipper Tanmay Agarwal, who was struggling for runs, returned to form in style as he hammered a 116-ball 122 (15×4, 1×6) to star in Hyderabad’s seven-wicket win over Chhattisgarh in Elite Group A league match of the Vijay Hazare one-day tournament in Surat on Monday.
This was Hyderabad’s second successive win walloping Tripura in the opening match. Set to score 243 for victory, Hyderabad cruised to victory in the 40.4 overs.
The left-handed opening duo of Tanmay and in-form Thakur Tilak Varma (60 off 78 balls,6×4) put on 131 runs before the later was dismissed in the 36th over. Tanmay was then involved in a 88-run partnership with Himalay Agarwal. Himalay blasted a quick-fire 36-ball 49 (4×4, 2×6) but missed his half century by one run when he was dismissed by Sumit Ruikar. Tanmay departed with Hyderabad one run away from win.
Earlier, Chhattisgarh were restricted to 242/7 in 50 overs. Left-arm spinner Mehdi Hasan bowled splendidly to return with figures of 3/32. Harpreet Singh Bhatia (63, 99 balls) and Ashutosh Singh (51) shared 93 runs for the fourth wicket. Medium pacer Ajay Dev Goud broke the partnership by dismissing Harpreet Singh.
Brief Scores (Round II)
Group A
Goa 159 in 45.4 overs (Hardik Patel 3/34) lost to Gujarat 162/2 in 27.4 overs (Bhargav Merai 57 no, Priyank Panchal 57 no)
Tripura 302/7 in 50 overs (Udiyan Bose 56, Bishal Ghosh 50) lost to Baroda 303/4 in 49 overs (Krunal Pandya 127, Vishnu Solanki 97)
Tamil Nadu 176 in 41.3 overs (Shoaib Md Khan 3/24, Ch Stephen 3/46) lost to Andhra 181/3 in 29.1 overs (Ashwin Hebbar 101 no, Ricky Bhui 52 no)
Madhya Pradesh 243/9 in 50 overs (Parth Sahani 68 no, Aditya Shrivastava 52; Aditya Sarwate 3/39) lost to Vidarbha 246/6 in 48.5 overs
Group C
Uttar Pradesh 283 in 49.4 overs (Akshdeep Nath 68, Priyam Garg 57; Sreesanth 5/65) lost to Kerala 284/7 in 48.5 overs (Robin Uthappa 81, Sachin Baby 76)
Karnataka 354/3 in 50 overs (R Samarth 158, Devdutt Paikkal 97, K Siddharth 76) bt Bihar 87 in 27.2 overs (Prasidh Krishna 4/17)
Odisha 230 in 49.3 overs (T Pradeep 3/54) lost to Railways 231/2 in 44.3 overs (Shivam Chaudhary 81 no, Pratham Singh 63)
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