Taide’s timely ton sets up Vidarbha’s maiden Hazare Trophy triumph

Vidarbha produced a nerveless show to bushed Saurashtra by 38 runs and triumph its maiden Vijay Hazare Trophy astatine the BCCI Centre of Excellence, adjacent here, connected Sunday.

After Atharva Taide (128, 118b, 15x4, 3x6) helped acceptable up a people of 318, Harvik Desai’s Saurashtra could lone scope 279 arsenic Vidarbha came up with an fantabulous bowling effort to disprove the accepted maxim that chasing teams invariably won.

If not for a 93-run fifth-wicket basal betwixt Prerak Mankad (88, 92b, 10x4) and Chirag Jani (64, 63b, 3x4, 2x6), Vidarbha’s borderline of triumph mightiness person been much comprehensive.

Both Prerak and Jani were fto disconnected once, the erstwhile connected 70 and the second connected 14. But it was skipper and left-arm spinner Harsh Dubey who emerged arsenic the antheral with the aureate arm, trapping the dangerous-looking Prerak leg-before connected the backfoot.

Jani’s dismissal, with 68 runs needed successful little than six overs, brought the defending Ranji Trophy champion person to the coveted white-ball trophy.

It was not agelong earlier Chetan Sakariya was excised by speedster Yash Thakur (four for 50) to gain Vidarbha the triumph that much than made up for the disappointing nonaccomplishment to Karnataka successful past year’s final.

Earlier, aft being asked to bat, the Vidarbha openers were mostly steady. There were a fewer top-edges and inside-edges, giving emergence to a fewer tense moments. However, Dubey & Co. banished those jitters with immoderate cleanable and crisp hitting from clip to time.

Aman Mokhade did not people big, falling for 33 (45b, 4x4) to decorativeness his play with 814 chart-topping runs. But Vidarbha had a caller leader successful Taide, who conjured his archetypal period of the tourney successful the all-important contest.

That helium scored the astir against this season’s highest wicket-taker Ankur Panwar (31 from 18 balls) was a bully indicator of the prime of his innings. The pick-up shots disconnected pacer Sakariya, and the rousing pulled sixes disconnected Dharmendra Jadeja and Prerak, showcased his wide mastery.

Vidarbha stood astatine a ascendant 213 for 1 erstwhile helium scooped a debased full-toss from Panwar to Prerak astatine mid-on. Though the outfit wobbled from there, losing wickets astatine regular intervals, Darshan Nalkande deed 13 of the 16 runs that came disconnected the last implicit to instrumentality his squad to 317 for eight. It was a cushion that yet proved handy.

The scores: Vidarbha 317/8 successful 50 overs (Atharva Taide 128, Yash Rathod 54, Ankur Panwar 4/65) bt Saurashtra 279 successful 48.5 overs (Prerak Mankad 88, Chirag Jani 64, Yash Thakur 4/50).

Toss: Saurashtra; PoM: Taide; PoS: Mokhade.