Karun Nair Century Record in Vijay Hazare Trophy: Taking advantage of his excellent form, Karun Nair scored his fourth consecutive century and fifth overall in this edition of Vijay Hazare Trophy, helping Vidarbha beat Rajasthan by nine wickets to enter the semi-finals of the premier domestic 50-over tournament. . Vidarbha will face Maharashtra in the semi-finals on Thursday, while Haryana, which registered a two-wicket win over Gujarat in the other last-four match, will face Karnataka on Wednesday. However, the hero of the day was Karun, who continued his fine form in this edition of the Vijay Hazare Trophy and scored his fifth century overall – 122 not out from 82 balls (13 fours and 5 sixes) – his fourth consecutive in the last five innings. There was a century also.
He is now on par with former Karnataka teammate Devdutt Padikkal, former Sri Lankan captain Kumar Sangakkara and former South African batsman Alviro Pietersen as the batsmen who have scored four consecutive List A centuries. The record for scoring the most consecutive List A centuries is currently in the name of Tamil Nadu’s Narayan Jagadeesan, who scored five consecutive centuries in the 2022-23 edition of the Vijay Hazare Trophy. 33-year-old Karun now has 664 runs in his name in eight matches at an impressive average of 664.
In the day’s match, Karun got good support from fellow centurion Dhruv Shorey (118 not out, 131b, 10×4, 3×6) as they added 200 runs for the second wicket in 29 overs, helping Vidarbha overcome the target of 291 runs in 43.3 overs. Done it. After the fall of one wicket, Karun had to carry forward the excellent start of 92 runs given by Shorey and Yash Rathore (39) and he did the job very well. Earlier, many Rajasthan batsmen got off to good starts, but none of them could really convert it into a big score.
Karthik Sharma (62 runs) and Shubham Garhwal (59 runs) were the main run scorers and then there were scattered scores by Deepak Chahar (31), Deepak Hooda (45 runs) and 32 runs by captain Mahipal Lomror. Medium pacer Yash Thakur (4/39) helped Vidarbha restrict their rivals to less than 300. Haryana registered victory. Haryana, facing the brilliant bowling of Indian leg spinner Ravi Bishnoi (4/46), achieved a huge victory while chasing the easy target of 197 runs set by Gujarat.
Earlier, Hemang Patel scored 54 runs (off 62 balls), but Anuj Thakral and Nishant Sindhu both took six wickets each and broke the back of Gujarat. Himanshu Rana, who scored 66 runs on 89 balls, handled Haryana’s innings and then due to the contribution of the rest of the batsmen, the team was successful in registering victory.
However, Gujarat captain Akshar Patel, who was included in the Indian team for the T20 series against England, had a poor performance, scoring only three runs with the bat and taking no wickets for 41 runs in 10 overs.
