Smaran Ravichandran’s 101 overshadows Dhruv Shorey third straight ton as Karnataka clinch fifth Vijay Hazare title | Cricket Information – The Occasions of India

NEW DELHI: Smaran Ravichandran‘s trendy 92-ball 101 overshadowed Dhruv Shorey’s third straight century as Karnataka clinched their fifth Vijay Hazare Trophy title with a 36-run win over Vidarbha in a high-scoring closing in Vadodara on Saturday.
The win within the summit conflict helped Karnataka create historical past as they now have a 5 out of 5 document in VGT closing.

Ravichandran masterful ton, mixed with keeper-batter Krishnan Srijith’s 78 off 74 balls, laid the muse for Karnataka’s commanding whole. T20 star Abhinav Manohar’s blistering 79 off 42 supplied the ultimate flourish, propelling Karnataka to 348 for six in 50 overs.

Vidarbha, regardless of reaching the ultimate undefeated within the group stage, struggled as most of their batters outdoors the highest three didn’t spend important time on the crease.
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Nevertheless, all-rounder Harsh Dubey’s explosive 63 off 30 balls, together with 5 sixes and as many fours, gave the winners a scare earlier than Vidarbha have been all out for 312 in 48.2 overs.
Dhruv’s third consecutive hundred went in useless, as he scored an aesthetic 110 with out a lot help from the opposite finish.
‘Participant of the Event’ Karun Nair, who completed with 779 runs at a powerful common of 389.5, had a uncommon failure when he was dismissed by Prasidh Krishna for 27.
Shorey added 56 with Nair and one other 62 with the seasoned Jitesh Sharma (34) however the boundaries dried up in the course of the center overs.
Medium pacer Vasuki Koushik (3/47) bowled inside his limitations, pitching it up and conserving every part consistent with the stumps, making it tough for batters with much less sport time to keep up momentum.
Different Karnataka bowlers, together with Prasidh (3/84) and left-arm Abhilash Shetty (3/58), bowled quite a few brief deliveries, which Shorey simply dispatched. As soon as Shetty acquired Shorey holed out making an attempt to tug, it was curtains for Vidarbha, regardless of Dubey’s late flourish.
Within the first innings, Smaran’s sturdy off-side play and his 140-run partnership off 122 balls with Srijith set the stage for Karnataka’s whole.
One other century-plus stand with Manohar, the place the latter was the dominant accomplice, took Karnataka near the 350-mark, finally proving to be a match-winning whole.