Vishnu Solanki’s sensible century (109, 102b, 12×4, 2×6) normal Baroda’s 36-run win in opposition to Bihar and stored the staff within the hunt within the Vijay Hazare Trophy One-Day cricket championship Group E match on the Rajiv Gandhi Stadium on Tuesday.
Put to bat, Baroda was in a spot of trouble at 88 for 4 in 21 overs with opener Shashwat Rawat (24), Ninad Rathva (7), Atit Sheth (36, 39b, 4×4) and captain Krunal Pandya (8) again within the pavilion within the wake of a self-discipline bowling efficiency, led by pacer Amod Yadav, who finally accomplished a creditable four-wicket haul.
Wicketkeeper-batter Solanki’s spectacular knock additionally noticed him hit a six to succeed in his 50 and have a good time that with two fantastically timed fours in a single over off leg-spinner Himanshu Singh. And, he celebrated his century with the now-familiar ‘Pushpa’ type.
Southpaw Shivalik Sharma’s useful contribution (39, 46b, 3×4) was the opposite main issue which helped Baroda put up a difficult rating of 277 in 49 overs.
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When the chase was on, the genius of 13-year-old Vaibhav Suryavanshi (71, 42b, 8×4, 4×6) was on full show. With an age-defying vary of strokes and most of his six clearing the boundary by a distance, Suryavanshi threatened to take the sport away with an excellent onslaught.
However he fell to the guiles of the skilled left-arm spinner Krunal as he went for one more huge heave and was caught brilliantly, by way of relay effort, by Shivalik Sharma close to the mid-wicket fence within the thirteenth over.
Later, however for the gritty captain Sakibul Gani (43, 82b, 2×4) and a belligerent wicketkeeper-batter Bipin Saurabh (40, 42b, 2×4,3×6), Bihar batters clearly struggled as soon as the run-flow was plugged, forcing them to play poor strokes.
Baroda’s left-arm spinner Ninad Rathva completed with a powerful four-wicket haul.
The scores:
Baroda 277 in 49 overs (Vishnu Solanki 109, Atit Sheth 36, Shivalik Sharma 39, Amod Yadav 4/38) bt Bihar 241/9 in 50 overs (Vaibhav Suryavanshi 71, Sakibul Gani 43, Bipin Saurabh 40, Ninad Rathva 4/28).