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Aman Rao converted his maiden List-A 100 into an unbeaten treble ton to spur Hyderabad to a ascendant 107-run triumph implicit Bengal successful the Vijay Hazare Trophy 2025 Group B brushwood astatine the Niranjan Shah Stadium present connected Tuesday.
The 21-year-old wrote himself into the past books (200 n.o., 154b, 12x4, 13x6) successful conscionable his 3rd elder 50-over appearance, annihilating Mohammed Azharuddin’s record for the highest List-A people by a Hyderabad batter — 161 not retired vs Goa successful the 1994/95 season. Mohammed Siraj registered a four-wicket haul to assistance curtail Bengal’s pursuit of the 353-run people astatine 245.
Century partnership
After being asked to bat, Hyderabad started briskly courtesy Rahul Singh Gahlaut’s take down of the afloat balls against pace. With his elder pro taking the bowling on, Aman took his clip to get his feet in, contributing conscionable 33 successful the 100-run opening concern that came successful the 15th over.
The drinks interruption brought astir the archetypal wicket. Gahlaut holed retired astatine deep-midwicket with a frustrated slog-sweep against leg-spinner Rohit Kumar aft being bogged down by consecutive dot balls. Aman and skipper Tilak Varma took their clip against the two-pronged rotation onslaught earlier the drinks interruption claimed different victim. Tilak perished a shot aft the 2nd recess, uncovering long-on with his lofted effort down the crushed against Shahbaz Ahmed.
Then began the onslaught from Aman. He brought up his period disconnected 108 balls, featuring conscionable 9 fours and 3 sixes, earlier unleashing hellfire. The opening batter punished immoderate misgivings successful magnitude from the experienced Bengal pacers, plundering 10 much maximums. A six disconnected the past shot of the innings implicit long-on fetched him his treble ton and helped Hyderabad registry 352 successful its batting essay.
Bengal’s pursuit of the mammoth people got disconnected to a grim commencement when Siraj ran done the apical bid with his opening burst. Veteran Anustup Majumdar (59, 72b, 4x4, 1x6) and Shahbaz (108 n.o., 113b, 9x4, 4x6) ensured the squad didn’t stumble to a tame surrender with a 97-run association. Shahbaz persevered to aggregate 3 figures for the 4th clip successful the 50-over format, but the people was good beyond scope by then.
The scores (Group B): Hyderabad 352/5 successful 50 overs (Aman Rao 200 n.o., Rahul Singh Gahlaut 65) bt Bengal 245 successful 44.4 overs (Anustup Majumdar 59, Shahbaz Ahmed 108 n.o., Mohammed Siraj 4/58).
Uttar Pradesh 339/5 successful 50 overs (Abhishek Goswami 103, Dhruv Jurel 56, Priyam Garg 67, Rinku Singh 57) bt Vidarbha 285/9 successful 50 overs (Aman Mokhade 147, Akshay Wadkar 51 n.o.).
Baroda 332 successful 50 overs (Priyanshu Moliya 114, Vishnu Solanki 132, Auqib Nabi 4/52) bt Jammu and Kashmir 256 each retired successful 45.3 overs (Dikshant Kundal 66, Kawalpreet Singh 65, Sahil Lotra 42).
Assam 284/7 successful 50 overs (Saurav Dihingia 61, Sumit Ghadigaonkar 51, Sibsankar Roy 106 n.o.) mislaid to Chandigarh 286/3 successful 47.2 overs (Manan Vohra 102, Arjun Azad 140).
