Vijay Hazare Trophy, 2017-18: Day 1 – Statistical Highlights

The 2017/18 season’s Vijay Hazare Trophy started off with a bang with huge totals were recorded on the first day of the tournament. As many as five teams posted 300+ in the nine games that took place on Monday while few other teams came close to the 300-run mark. A total of 12 batsmen hit hundreds during the day but only one bowler took a 5-wicket haul. Six teams including the five teams posting 300+ won while defending the totals while three other teams were successful at chasing down the targets.

All the stats and numbers that matter from the first day of Vijay Hazare Trophy 2017/18:

0 – Number of wickets for Ravindra Jadeja in the last 39 overs in List A format. He went wicket-less in the ten overs he bowled against Chhattisgarh today. Jadeja failed to pick a wicket despite bowling 28 overs in his last three ODI matches. Jadeja also failed in scoring a boundary in the 29 balls he faced scoring 23 runs.

5/45 – Mohammed Siraj’s 5/45 against Services was his maiden five-wicket haul in List A cricket. He picked up the first four wickets to fall of Services in his first spell. His 5-fer is only the 2nd in List A games in RGICS, Hyderabad after Siddharth Kaul’s 5/32 against Hyderabad in 2015/16 season.

21 – Balls Hyderabad’s Kolla Sumanth needed for scoring his fifty against Services. This is the fastest known fifty by a Hyderabad player in List A cricket and also the 3rd fastest known fifty in Inter-State One-Day tournaments. Vinay Kumar and Yusuf Pathan have scored fifties in 19 and 20 balls respectively in this tournament previously.

54.21 – Cheteshwar Pujara’s batting average in List A cricket is the 3rd best in this format among the players with 3000+ runs. Only Michael Bevan (57.86) and Virat Kohli (55.07) have better averages in the format. Pujara’s 60 against Chhattisgarh today is his 34th fifty-plus score in the 82 innings.

134* – Suryakumar Yadav scored his maiden century in List A cricket in his 54th game. He hit 11 fours and seven sixes during his innings that came in 85 balls. His seven sixes are bettered by only SD Chitnis (10) and Ajinkya Rahane (8) in a List A innings for Mumbai.

219 – Kaushik Gandhi and Vijay Shankar shared a 219-run stand for the 3rd wicket against Gujarat. This is the highest partnership for Tamil Nadu in List A cricket for any wicket and also the highest for the 3rd wicket in Inter-State One-Dayers. Sadagoppan Ramesh and Woorkeri Raman’s 21-run stand for the 2nd wicket against Goa in the 1995/96 season was the previous highest stand for Tamil Nadu.