Vijay Hazare Trophy 2018 Round-Up: Manish Pandey's knock goes in vain; Gautam Gambhir fails with the bat

The Vijay Hazare Trophy continued today, with matches taking place in Bengaluru, Vadodara, and Delhi.

The only group which did not have any matches today was Group C. Luckily, the rain Gods showed mercy and all the matches took place without the loss of any overs. A total of 9 matches took place in the three cities combined.

Over the past few days, a lot of matches were washed out, which even led to Karnataka getting knocked out of the tournament.

In this article, we take a look at the results of the matches which took place today.

#1 Group A

Karnataka, who have won just one match so far in the tournament, were desperate to get a win under their belt before signing off. However, it was not to be as Punjab, who are in great form, defeated them by six wickets at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru.

Riding on Anmolpreet Singh's blazing knock of 138 in just 106 deliveries, Punjab cruised to victory. Shubhman Gill contributed with 77 runs as well, with the opening pair putting on a 198 run partnership for the first wicket. For Karnataka, it was KPL star Sharath BR and Indian middle-order batsman Manish Pandey who got the runs. While Sharath scored 70, Pandey scored 67.

In the other matches of Group A, Maharashtra defeated Baroda by 5 wickets and Vidarbha beat Goa by 1 run.

Brief scores:

Punjab 297-4 def. Karnataka 296 all out by 6 wickets

Vidarbha 218 all out def. Goa 217-9 by 1 wicket

Maharashtra 207-5 def. Baroda 206-8 by 5 wicket

#2 Plate Group

The Plate Group encounter between Bihar and Mizoram at the Moti Bagh Stadium in Vadodara was a one-sided affair with Bihar thrashing the minnows by nine wickets.

Batting first, the opening batsmen of Mizoram got 44 runs on the board. However, they suffered a major collapse losing all 10 wickets after scoring just 39 more runs. Apart from the openers, none of the other batsmen even managed to get to double digits, with as many as five batsmen getting out for a duck.

In response, Vikas Ranjan led the attack and scored a brisk half-century, taking his side to a comfortable victory in the end.

Brief scores:

Bihar 87-1 def. Mizoram 83 all out by 9 wickets

Puducherry 324-5 def. Meghalaya 250-5 by 74 runs

Uttarakhand 264 def. Arunachal Pradesh 156-9 by 108 runs

#3 Group B

Gautam Gambhir

In the match held between Delhi and Chattisgarh at the Feroz Shah Kotla in New Delhi, Delhi achieved an easy victory in a relatively low-scoring affair. After a failure by the top-order, including Gautam Gambhir, who scored just 10 runs, it was the middle-order and lower-order which helped Delhi reach 245 in 50 overs. Lakshay Tareja was the top-scorer, with 53 runs to his name in 72 deliveries.

In response, it was a similar story for Chattisgarh as well, whose top-order failed. A couple of batsmen in the middle and lower order performed decently but not well enough as they were bowled out 45 runs short of the target.

With this win, Delhi move up to second on the table.

Brief scores:

Delhi 245-9 def. Chattisgarh 201 all out by 44 runs.

Kerala 316-7 def. Saurashtra 270 all out by 46 runs.

Andhra 156-3 def. Madhya Pradesh 155 all out by 7 wickets