Shivam
Dube, who bats left-handed and is a right-arm medium pacer, has been chosen for
his ability to hit big and bowl seam-up at a brisk pace, a readymade
replacement for the injured Hardik Pandya.
Before you read further – do you know of the finals between Tamil Nadu
and Karnataka at Bengaluru ? .. ..
In the din of IPL – most
domestic Cricket would be forgotten – gone are the days when Triplicanites used
to follow Palayampatti Shield… after the Pongal Tests of Chepauk ….. ODI treat
came years later to Chennai – in between the limited overs tourney most enjoyed
was Deodhar Trophy held since 1973 – the 50 over match between Zones… Remember
in 1980-81 Deodhar match at Chepauk, Thirumalai Echampadi
Srinivasan shred to pieces West bowling scoring a masterly 129
outclassing Krish Srikkanth, and eventually getting selected for that tour
of Australia – Newzealand… that was an innings of class written all
over. Then there was the KS Subbaiah Pillai trophy – the One day tournament
between State sides. Today it is
Vijay Hazare Trophy finals !
38 teams played the
league phase. Chandigarh
competed in the tournament for the first time. The tournament retained the same
format as the previous edition of the competition. It had
four groups, with nine teams each in Groups A, B and ten teams in Group C and
the Plate Group. The 2019–20 Vijay
Hazare Trophy is the 18th season of the Vijay Hazare Trophy, a List A cricket
tournament in India. Seventeen out of
the first thirty matches that were scheduled to be played across all four
groups were abandoned or finished in a no result. Kerala's Sanju Samson scored the fastest double
century in List A cricket. It was the
highest individual total in the Vijay Hazare Trophy, with an unbeaten 212 runs
from 129 balls. After the final group
matches, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Karnataka, Mumbai and Punjab finished in the top
five places across groups A and B. They were joined by Puducherry in the
knockout stage, who finished top of the Plate Group. The first semi-final saw Karnataka beat
Chhattisgarh by nine wickets, with ten overs to spare, after Devdutt Padikkal
scored 92 runs. In the second
semi-final, the match was delayed due to a wet outfield, and eventually
shortened to 40 overs per side. Tamil Nadu went on to beat Gujarat by five
wickets, with Shahrukh Khan making an unbeaten fifty, to advance to the final.
Five hundred-plus
runs with the bat. Eleven wickets with the ball - direct hit to run out Uttar Pradesh's Piyush
Chawla in the Vijay Hazare Trophy semi-final on Thursday. All of this, despite
a family bereavement midway through the tournament. B Aparajith's paternal grandfather passed
away on the eve of Tamil Nadu's Group C clash against Railways in Jaipur. But
the allrounder stayed back with the team and produced a brilliant all-round
performance - 4 for 30 and 111 not out - to trump Railways. Chasing 178 for victory, Tamil Nadu were 96
for 5 but Shahrukh Khan's 56* off 46 balls saw them pull through with an over
to spare, enthralling the handful of neutral fans who turned up at the Just
Cricket Academy Ground on the outskirts of Bengaluru. Both teams had star-studded line-ups. R
Ashwin, fresh off India's Test series win over South Africa, flew in on Tuesday
to join the Tamil Nadu squad for the semi-final. He had M Vijay, Washington
Sundar, Abhinav Mukund and captain Dinesh Karthik in his side. Gujarat, too,
had their share of India cap-holders, with Axar Patel and Piyush Chawla being
led by Parthiv Patel.
Let us
cheer for Tamil Nadu win in the Vijay Hazare finals .. .. Mumbai allrounder
Shivam Dube has earned himself a maiden India call-up, figuring in the squad
for the three-T20I series against Bangladesh at home in November. Kerala
wicketkeeper-batsman Sanju Samson has got a recall, having played his only
previous international game - a T20I against Zimbabwe in Harare - back in July
2015. Against Karnataka in Vijay Hazare
Trophy just over a week ago, . Dube had hit a century (118) off 58 balls, going from fifty to hundred in a
mere 17 deliveries. He hit ten sixes
during his knock, and the ball had to be replaced a fair few times.
Bangladesh, torn by
striking players is to tour India. The
three T20I games will be played from November 3 to 10 in Delhi, Rajkot and
Nagpur. The T20I squad also saw the return of Shardul Thakur and Yuzvendra
Chahal. Thakur returned to the international fold after a year and replaced
Navdeep Saini. Prasad confirmed both Saini and Bhuvneshwar Kumar, who also
missed the South Africa T20Is, weren't available because of fitness issues. Kohli
is, however, a part of the squad for the two Tests - Indore (November 14 to 18)
and Kolkata (November 22 to 26) - and will lead a side featuring the
first-choice 15 from the recent series against South Africa at home. Shahbaz
Nadeem, who replaced an injured Kuldeep Yadav for the final match of that
series for his Test debut, was left out with the left-arm wristspinner fit for
action again, so he will have to wait longer for his hat-trick ball.
Bangladesh Cricket
Board president Nazmul Hassan's aggressive attitude during the Wednesday
meeting between the board officials and the striking cricketers, especially his
takedown of allrounder Mehidy Hasan, apparently threw the players off to start
with, one of them even saying that the incident "rattled" them. One
of the puzzling sidelights of the meeting came in the form of Obeid Nizam, CEO
of Bangladesh Premier League side Dhaka Dynamites, attending the meeting. Nizam
is neither a BCB director or a BCB employee, and raised questions of conflict
of interest, as the franchise is owned by Beximco, the company where Hassan and
board directors Ismail Haider Mallick and Khaled Mahmud are employed. It also
left many of the board directors irate, one of them saying it was "a slap
to our face".
Interesting !
With regards – S.
Sampathkumar
25.10.2019
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