Narayan Jagadeesan Creates History: Tamil Nadu faced Rajasthan on January 9 in the pre-quarterfinal match of Vijay Hazare Trophy 2024-25. Where Rajasthan team managed to win by 19 runs. Tamil Nadu team definitely lost in the important match, but two of its players were impressive during the match. During the bowling, Varun Chakraborty first wreaked havoc and took five wickets. After that, when it was the turn to bat, Narayan Jagadeesan was seen in great form while opening the innings. You can gauge his aggressiveness from the fact that he hit fours in the over of Aman Shekhawat, who came to bowl the second over of the innings for the opposition team. He managed to hit fours on all the balls of this over. However, despite this, the Tamil Nadu team could not win and had to face defeat by 19 runs.
Narayan Jagadeesan scored 65 runs against Rajasthan
Tamil Nadu definitely lost in the pre-quarterfinal match, but Narayan Jagadeesan was impressive. Opening the innings for the team, he faced a total of 52 balls. Meanwhile, he managed to score 65 runs at a strike rate of 125.00. During this period, 10 beautiful fours came from his bat.
4⃣wd,4⃣,4⃣,4⃣,4⃣,4⃣,4⃣
29-run over!
N Jagadeesan smashed 6⃣ fours off 6⃣ balls in the second over to provide a blistering start for Tamil Nadu 🔥#VijayHazareTrophy , @IDFCFIRSTBank
Scorecard ▶️ https://t.co/pSVoNE63b2 pic.twitter.com/JzXIAUaoJt— BCCI Domestic (@BCCIDomestic) January 9, 2025
Rajasthan won by 19 runs
Talking about the result of the match, Rajasthan team, batting first after losing the toss in Vadodara, managed to score 267 runs in 47.3 overs losing all its wickets. Opening the innings for the team, Abhijeet Tomar scored a century. He faced a total of 125 balls for the team. Meanwhile, he managed to score 111 runs with the help of 12 fours and four sixes. Apart from him, Captain Mahipal Lomror played a half-century inning of 60 runs in 49 balls.
While chasing the target of 268 runs set by Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu team got bundled out for 248 runs in 47.1 overs. Narayan Jagadeesan played the highest half-century innings of 65 runs for the team. Apart from him, Vijay Shankar contributed 49 runs in the middle order. Despite this, the Tamil Nadu team remained a few steps away from victory.
Special feat of Narayan Jagadeesan
A special record has been registered in the name of Narayan Jagadeesan after hitting six fours against Rajasthan. He has become the first batsman in List A cricket to score the most runs in an over without hitting sixes. In Aman’s over he scored a total of 31 runs including wides.
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