Vijay Hazare Trophy 2017, Day 1, Round up: Karnataka, Tripura eke out narrow wins

The premier one-day domestic tournament of India, Vijay Hazare Trophy 2017, kicked off with some brilliant performances on day one. The most notable among all the fixtures on the first day was the match between Jharkhand and Karnataka. Former Indian skipper MS Dhoni led the Jharkhand side in the cracking encounter. Dhoni-led Jharkhand side came very close to the target but ended up falling short by just 5 runs on the day. It was K Gowtham’s 4/58 that sealed the match for Karnataka.

Earlier in the game, Karnataka had posted 266 in their innings riding on Manish Pandey’s 77 and R Samarth’s 71. The Ranji Trophy finalists, Mumbai and Gujarat, locked horns at Chennai and the match was sure to garner a lot of attention. Gujarat could not repeat their winning performance of Ranji finals and succumb to 98-run defeat. Aditya Tare, the Mumbai skipper, top scored for Mumbai with 83 to his name.

There was a run fest on the cards too. Maharashtra and Himachal Pradesh clashed at Cuttack in a very high scoring game. Maharashtra posted a mammoth 376/7 in their 50 overs riding on Ruturaj Gaikwad’s brilliant 132, assisted by Naushad Shaikh’s 72 off just 39 balls. Himachal Pradesh, in their reply, managed to reach 351 as Prashant Chopra scored a ton for them.

Out-of-favor team India batsman and Tamil Nadu veteran Dinesh Karthik also notched up a classic century against Delhi. Karthik’s run blitz of 97-ball 118 saw Tamil Nadu end up with 314/8. Delhi were bowled out for 272 in their reply despite fifies from Dhruv Shorey, Milind Kumar and Gautam Gambhir. Some big names participated in the match between Baroda and Railways. Deepak Hooda and Irfan Pathan starred for Baroda in the match at Palam, New Delhi. Hooda’s power packed 119 came off just 92 deliveries. He helped his side post 259/9 on the board, in reply to which the Railways could manage just 229 as Krunal Pandya (3/32) and Irfan Pathan (2/30) starred with the ball.

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The only upset of the day could well be tagged to the Services v Saurashtra match. A well compiled 124 from Services batsman Nakul Verman helped the Services set a target of 264 for Saurashtra. The heavyweight side bundled out for 215 as Suraj Yadav returned with figures of 4/47. The first day saw the batsmen dominate the proceedings. There were no five-fors to talk about. Here are the brief scores of all matches played in Vijay Hazare Trophy 2017, Day 1:

Group A

Vidarbha v Punjab – Punjab won by 6 wickets

Vidarbha 218 in 49.3 overs (Ambati Rayudu 86, Ganesh Satish 42; Siddarth Kaul 4/33)

Punjab 219/4 in 41.1 overs (Mandeep Singh 86*, Manan Vohra 50, Abhishek Sharma 46; Akshay Wakhare 1/41)

Baroda v Railways – Baroda won by 30 runs

Baroda 259/9 in 50 overs (Deepak Hooda 119, Kedar Devdhar 77; Anureet Singh 2/43)

Railways 229 in 46.4 overs (Saurabh Wakaskar 58, Asadulla Khan 34; Krunal Pandya 3/32, Irfan Pathan 2/30)

Haryana v Odisha – Haryana won by 5 wickets

Odisha 229 in 47.5 overs (Sandeep Pattnaik 91, Anurag Sarangi 77; Joginder Sharma 2/41, Mohit Sharma 2/33)

Haryana 230/5 in 48.2 overs (Chaitanya Bishnoi 83*, Rahul Tewatia 62*; Govinda Poddar 2/30)

Group B

Kerala v Tripura – Tripura won by 2 wickets

Kerala 233/9 in 50 overs (Salman Nizar 82, Sachin Baby 77; Abhijit Sarkar 3/41)

Tripura 235/8 in 49.2 overs (Gurinder Singh 61, Sanjay Majumder 30; Krishna Kumar 2/36)

Delhi v Tamil Nadu – Tamil Nadu won by 42 runs

Tamil Nadu 314/8 in 50 overs (Dinesh Karthik 118, Baba Indrajith 46; Ashish Nehra 4/39, Manan Sharma 3/52)

Delhi 272 in 46.4 overs (Milind Kumar 68, Dhruv Shorey 57, Gautam Gambhir 51; Antony Dhas 3/52, Vijay Shankar 2/31)

Maharashtra v Himachal Pradesh – Maharashtra won by 25 runs

Maharashtra 376/7 in 50 overs (Ruturaj Gaikwad 132, Naushad Shaikh 72, Vijay Zol 62; Pankaj Jaiswal 2/82)

Himachal Pradesh 351 in 48.5 overs (Prashant Chopra 100, Ankit Kaushik 59*; Jagdish Zope 4/60)

Group C

Mumbai v Gujarat – Mumbai won by 98 runs

Mumbai 273/9 in 50 overs (Aditya Tare 83, Siddhesh Lad 64; Chirag Parmar 4/42)

Gujarat 175 in 41.4 overs (Priyank Panchal 32; Shivan Malhotra 3/49)

Madhya Pradesh v Team Rajasthan – Madhya Pradesh won by 3 wickets

Team Rajasthan 212 in 49.1 overs (Ashok Bhudania 38; Chandrakant Sakure 3-25, Puneet Datey 3/49)

Madhya Pradesh 213/7 in 40 overs (Harpreet Singh Bhatia 45*; Pramod Yadav 2/10)

Andhra v Bengal – Bengal won by 4 wickets

Andhra 225/8 in 50 overs (Ravi Teja 43; Pragyan Ojha 2/33)

Bengal 226/6 in 48.5 overs (Shreevats Goswami 66; Dasari Swaroop 2/42)

Group D

Services v Saurashtra – Services won by 48 runs

Services 263/9 in 50 overs (Nakul Verma 124; Shaurya Sanandia 4/67)

Saurashtra 215 in 39.4 overs (Prerak Mankad 58; Suraj Yadav 4/47)

Hyderabad v Jammu & Kashmir – Hyderabad won by 28 runs

Hyderabad 257 in 49.3 (Tanmay Agarwal 68; Manzoor Dar 2/30)

Jammu & Kashmir 22 in 42.4 overs (Ahmad Banday 87; Ravi Kiran 3/49)

Karnataka v Jharkhand – Karnataka won by 5 runs

Karnataka 266 in 49.4 overs (Manish Pandey 77, R Samarth 71; Rahul Shukla 4/45)

Jharkhand 261 in 49.5 overs (Saurabh Tiwary 68; K Gowtham 4/58)