Mumbai, Andhra enter Vijay Hazare knockouts
CHENNAI: Mumbai and Andhra posted wins over Gujarat and Goa to qualify for the national knockout phase of the Vijay Hazare Trophy from Group ‘C’ here.
While Andhra trounced Gujarat by nine wickets to notch up its fifth straight victory, Mumbai won its fourth game to make sure of advancing.
K S Bharat with an unbeaten 106 (132 balls, 4X4, 4X6) and Ashwin Hebbar (99, 108 balls, 11X4, 2X6) helped Andhra steamroll Gujarat reaching the target of 251 in 45.2 overs.
Meanwhile, Mumbai rode on half-centuries by Surya Kumar Yadav (71), Prithvi Shaw (53) and captain Aditya Tare (59) to post a four-wicket win over Goa.
Chasing Goa’s score of 266 for 8, Mumbai secured the win in the 47th over as the top-order got going. Shaw,who led India to a memorable triumph in the under-19 World Cup in New Zealand recently, put Mumbai on track with a well crafted half century. He was involved in two important partnerships, first with Jay Bista for 64 runs and then with Surya Kumar Yadav (90 runs). The young righthander hit six fours and a six in his innings of 53. Yadav then forged a 52-run stand with Tare, who scored 50.
Earlier, identical scores of 56 by former IPL star Swapnil Asnodkar and Suyash S Prabhudessai helped Goa make 266 in 50 overs. In the day’s other match, Team Rajasthan thumped Madhya Pradesh by seven wickets.
176 in 48.2 overs (Soumik Chatterjee 52; Dharmendrasinh Jadeja 4/26)
181/2 in 21.4 overs (Samarth Vyas 114 not out, Cheteshwar Pujara 45 not out) by eight wickets.
288/9 in 50 overs (Saurabh Tiwary 107, Kumar Deobrat 51; Pankaj Rao 4/43)
294/3 in 46 overs (Amandeep Khare 76, Shashank Chandraker 61, Manoj Singh 54 not out, Vishal Kushwah 40 not out) by seven wickets.
312 in 50 overs (Rohit Rayudu 130, BP Sandeep 72; Umar Nazir 5/52)
163 in 34.1 overs (Akash Bhandari 3/34) by 149 runs.