Mumbai
Maharashtra, the team captained by Rituraj Gaikwad, has made it to the semi-finals of Vijay Hazare Trophy 2024-25. It defeated Punjab by 70 runs in the third quarter-final. In this match, Arshin Kulkarni batted strongly for Maharashtra and scored a century. Nikhil Nayak scored an unbeaten half-century. Punjab captain Abhishek Sharma could not do anything special in this match. Anmolpreet Singh played an inning of 48 runs for the team.
Batting first, Maharashtra set a target of 275 runs for Punjab. During this time, Rituraj and Arshin came to open for the team. Ruturaj was out after scoring 5 runs. After this Siddhesh Veer came to bat. He was also out. But after this there was a good partnership between Ankit and Arshin. Ankit scored 60 runs with the help of 7 fours. While Arshin scored a century. He scored 107 runs with the help of 14 fours. Nikhil Nayak scored unbeaten 52 runs.
Such was the innings of Punjab –
Punjab team, which came to chase the target given by Maharashtra, was all out in 44.4 overs. For that, Anmolpreet Singh scored 48 runs with the help of 3 fours and 1 six. Captain Abhishek could not do anything special. He was out after scoring 19 runs with the help of 4 fours. Arshdeep Singh did wonders in the end. But this was not enough for victory. Arshdeep scored 49 runs in 39 balls. During this, he hit 3 fours and 3 sixes. Ramandeep Singh was out after scoring 2 runs. In this way Punjab had to face defeat by 70 runs.
Maharashtra made it to the semi-finals –
Gaikwad’s team Maharashtra has made a strong performance and made it to the semi-finals.
