Vijay Hazare Trophy 2015, Round-up: Harshal Patel's all-round performance helps Haryana demolish J&K
Harshal Patel's all-round performance helped Haryana to beat Jammu & Kashmir by ten wickets after bowling them out for just 75. Jammu & Kashmir won the toss and chose to bat, but were subject to a dominating performance by the Haryana bowlers. Patel picked up five wickets for just 21 runs in his seven overs and scored a half-century to lead his side to a convincing victory.
Haryana captain, Amit Mishra picked up a hat-trick after bringing himself on as a fifth-change bowler to clean up the J&K tail-end. All-rounder, Jayant Yadav picked up the remaining two wickets as J&K had five scores of nought in their innings.
Chasing a target of just 76, Haryana sent Patel to open the batting along with Nitin Saini. Both batsmen remained unbeaten as Haryana reached their target in 11 overs. Patel top-scored with a quickfire 54 off 27 balls, which included seven fours and three sixes.
Brief Scores: Haryana 76/0, 11 overs (Patel 54*) beat Jammu & Kashmir (toss) 75/10, 22 overs (Bandeep Singh 24; Patel 5/21, Mishra 3/4) by ten wickets.
MS Dhoni's Jharkhand won by five wickets against Kerala after a match-winning performance by Saurabh Tiwary. Being set a target of 237, Jharkhand chased it down with 18 balls to spare.
For Kerala, opener VA Jagadeesh and captain Sachin Baby scored half-centuries to help their side post a respectable total. A cameo 18-ball 34 runs from Padmanabhan Prasanth helped propel Kerala's score to 236.
Dhoni failed to find form again as he scored only 18 runs. Kaushal Singh ably assisted Tiwary in Jharkhand's chase with his 43-ball 48.
Brief Scores: Jharkhand (toss) 240/5, 47 overs (Tiwary 87*, Kaushal Singh 48; Prasanth 1/29) beat Kerala 236/8, 50 overs (Sachin Baby 61, Jagadeesh 60; Shukla 3/47) by five wickets.
A Ravichandran Ashwin-led Tamil Nadu lost to Punjab as Punjab chased down a target of 227 with more than five overs to spare. Dinesh Karthik top-scored for TN with 69 runs to his name. Siddarth Kaul picked up four wickets for Punjab.
In reply, Punjab opener Jiwanjot Singh batted well from the start only missing his ton by 15 runs.
Brief Scores: Punjab (toss) 230/4, 44.5 overs (Jiwanjot Singh 85, Sidhana 67; Sathish 2/23) beat Tamil Nadu 226/10, 45.3 overs (Karthik 69, Aparajith 39; Kaul 4/17) by six wickets.
A top bowling performance from the Mumbai bowlers helped them defend a total of just 199 against Assam. Assam were bowled out for a meagre 102 after good bowling spells by Dhawal Kulkarni, Sagar Trivedi and Abhishek Nayar.
Brief Scores: Mumbai 198/10, 49.5 overs (Iyer 49, Suryakumar Yadav 42; Amit Verma 2/23) beat Assam 102/10, 35 overs (Amit Verma 33; Kulkarni 4/19, Trivedi 3/29, Nayar 3/37) by 96 runs.
Fifties from captain Gautam Gambhir and Milind Kumar gave Delhi a five-wicket victory over Odisha. Delhi were set a target of 226 after a fifty from Odisha captain Natraj Behera helped them to a score of 225 in their 50 overs.
Brief Scores: Delhi (toss) 228/5, 46.3 overs (Gambhir 67, Milind Kumar 62; Sahoo 2/58) beat Odisha 225/9, 50 overs (Behera 50, Samantray 47; Manan Sharma 3/47 by five wickets.
Details of other games that took place today are as below:
Uttar Pradesh 222/6, 46.4 overs (Umang Sharma 73, Prashant Gupta 47; Shami 2/52) beat Bengal (toss) 221/10, 48.3 overs (Sudip Chatterjee 97; Javed 4/40, Chawla 3/53) by four wickets.
Vidarbha (toss) 174/3, 42 overs (Fazal 89, Badrinath 47*; Pandya 1/52) beat Baroda 173/10, 46 overs (Rayudu 40; Thakur 4/27) by seven wickets.
Gujarat (toss) 260/6, 49.4 overs (Axar Patel 75, Rujul Bhatt 72; Karn Sharma 2/38) beat Railways 259/5, 50 overs (Ghosh 96*, Rawat 60; Axar Patel 1/35) by four wickets.
Services 225/5, 48.5 overs (Qadir 68, Paliwal 64; Kiran 2/41) beat Hyderabad (toss) 224/7, 50 overs (Naidu 45*, Milind 42*; Bloch 3/34) by five wickets.
Madhya Pradesh 215/3, 42.2 overs (Harpreet Singh 74*, Saxena 69; Jakati 2/49) beat Goa (toss) 214/10, 43.2 overs (Bandekar 68, Asnodkar 68; Saxena 2/21, Datey 2/34) by seven wickets.
Maharashtra (toss) 294/10, 49.4 overs (Jadhav 131; Banik 4/40) beat Tripura 183/10, 49.5 overs (Majumder 52; Gugale 4/21) by 111 runs.