Tilak Varma, Milind star in Hyderabad’s big win

Tripura invited Hyderabad to bat after winning the toss and the decision backfired as openers Tanmay Agarwal and Tilak Varma scored 166 runs for the first wicket.

Hyderabad: Promising opener Thakur Tilak Varma hit an unbeaten 156 while left arm pacer CV Milind scalped five wickets for 43 runs as Hyderabad began their Vijay Hazare Trophy campaign with a massive 113-run victory over Tripura in the Elite Group A match in Surat on Saturday.

Tripura invited Hyderabad to bat after winning the toss and the decision backfired as openers Tanmay Agarwal and Tilak Varma scored 166 runs for the first wicket. Captain Tanmay also hit a well-made 86 in 100 balls while Tilak Varma hit 10 boundaries and five over it in his 145-ball essay. Himalay Agarwal (38 in 26; 3×6) and B Sandeep (41 in 23; 3×4, 2×6) added some quick runs to power Hyderabad to 349/5.

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In reply, Tripura were all out for 236 runs in 42 overs with only Milind Kumar (67) and Bikramkumar Das (65) providing some resistance. Left-arm pacer Milind ran through Tripura batting order. B Sandeep and T Ravi Teja scalped two wickets each while Ajay Dev Goud took the remaining wicket.

Brief Scores (Round I)

Group A

Chhattisgarh 231 in 48.5 overs (Shashank Chandrakar 92; ArzanNagwaswalla 6/54) lost to Gujarat 232/7 in 48.1 overs

Goa 263 in 49.1 overs (Snehal Kauthankar 81; Atit Sheth 3/50, Krunal Pandya 3/62) lost to Baroda 264/5 in 48.3 overs (Vishnu Solanki 108, Krunal Pandya 71)

Group B

Punjab 288/4 in 50 overs (Gurkeerat Singh Mann 139 no, Prabhsimran Singh 71, Sanvir Singh 58) lost to Tamil Nadu 289/4 in 49 overs (Narayan Jagadeesan 101, Baba Aparajith 88, Shahrukh Khan 55 no)

Jharkhand 433/9 in 50 overs (Ishan Kishan 173, Anukul Roy 72, Virat Singh 68, Sumit Kumar 52; Gaurav Yadav 4/73) by Madhya Pradesh 98 in 18.4 overs (Varun Aaron 6/37)

Vidarbha 331/6 in 50 overs (Yash Rathod 117, Faiz Fazal 100; Cheepurapalli Stephen 3/66) lost to Andhra 332/7 in 49.2 overs (Ricky Bhui 101 no, Hanuma Vihari 65, Nitish Kumar 54; Darshan Nalkande 3/76)

Group C

Karnataka 246/8 in 50 overs (Aniruddha Joshi 68, Devdutt Padikkal 52; Shivam Sharma 3/40) lost (by VJD) to Uttar Pradesh (target 207 in 45.2 overs) 215/4 in 45.2 overs (Abhishek Goswami 54)

Odisha 258/8 in 45 overs (Sandeep Pattnaik 66, Gourav Choudhury 57) lost (by VJD) to Kerala (Target 200 in 38.2 overs) 233/4 in 38.2 overs (Robin Uthappa 107; Sourav Kanoja 3/43)

Bihar 189 in 45.5 overs (T Pradeep 6/43, Amit Mishra 3/30) lost to Railways 190/0 in 29 overs (Mrunal Devdhar 105 no, Pratham Singh 72 no)

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