Vijay Hazare Trophy 2019–20, Round 2 Match Results: Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Assam Win Big; 7 Out of 12 Games Abandoned
All three matches in Elite Group A – which involved defending champions Mumbai and Kerala – were abandoned without a ball being bowled. All three matches were called off even without the toss taking place, with two of those three games taking place at Alur in Andhra Pradesh, which had also endured three washouts on the opening day of the tournament.
Dinesh Karthik hit a second successive half-century as Tamil Nadu thrashed Services by 212 massive runs to maintain its winning streak in the Elite Group C of the 2019-20 Vijay Hazare Trophy round 2. Tripura, likewise, kept its pressure on the table leaders with their own consecutive victories against Jammu and Kashmir and Madhya Pradesh. Tanmay Mishra hit a hundred to take his side to a 104-run victory in their second game in Group C. Meanwhile, seven of 12 games set to be played on September 25 were washed out due to torrential rain.
All three matches in Elite Group A – which involved defending champions Mumbai and Kerala – were abandoned without a ball being bowled. All three matches were called off even without the toss taking place, with two of those three games taking place at Alur in Andhra Pradesh, which had also endured three washouts on the opening day of the tournament. Here is a brief recap of the day's play. MS Dhoni Makes Himself Unavailable until November 2019, Will Miss Vijay Hazare Trophy & Bangladesh T20I series.
Elite Group A Matches
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Elite Group B Matches
Haryana 154 in 32.4 overs (Pramod Chandila 58; Navdeep Saini 4/36) vs Delhi 6/0 in 1.3 overs (Dhruv Shorey 2*, Hiten Dalal 4*). No Result.
Baroda 91/8 in 20.3 overs (Krunal Pandya 36; Shivam Mavi 3/9) vs Uttar Pradesh. No Result.
Punjab 169/9 in 42 overs (Anmol Malhotra 36; Rishi Dhawan 4/43) vs Himachal Pradesh 22/1 in 8 overs (Ankush Bains 7*; Sandeep Sharma 1/7). No Result.
Elite Group C Matches
Tripura 268/8 in 50 overs (Tanmay Mishra 102, Milind Kumar 41; Ishwar Pandey 2/41) beat Madhya Pradesh 86/6 in 26 overs (Rajat Patidar 41; Manisankar Murasingh 1/10) by 104 runs (VJD Method).
Railways 289/6 in 50 overs (Arindam Ghosh 96, Vikrant Rajput 70; Vivek Kumar 3/55) beat Bihar Shasheem Rathour 86; Karn Sharma 3/23) by 84 runs (VJD Method).
Tamil Nadu 294/8 in 50 overs (Dinesh Karthik 95, Hari Nishanth 73; Rajat Paliwal 2/26) beat Services 82/10 (Nakul Verma 20; Krishnamoorthy Vignesh 5/41, M Mohammed 3/10) by 212 runs.
Plate Group Matches
Assam 324/3 in 50 overs (Swarupam Purkayastha 163*, Sibsankar Roy 79; Sumit Lamba 1/40) Beat Mizoram 211/6 (Abrar Kazi 78; Roshan Alam 4/45) by 113 runs.
Meghalaya 107 in 26.1 overs (Sagar Trivedi 4/18) lost to Puducherry 108/6 in 23.5 overs (Suresh Kumar 37*; Abhay Negi 4/17) by 4 wickets (VJD Method).
The 2019-20 Vijay Hazare Trophy – in its 18th season – began on September 24 and will run till October 2, 2019. A total of 38 teams are participating in the tournament and will play a total of 169 matches. teams have been divided into four groups, with nine teams each in Group A and B, 10 in Group C and rest in the plate Groups.
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