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Jagadishan shines in Tamil Nadu’s victory, Andhra defeats Kerala

N Jagadeesan continued his impressive run with his fourth consecutive century as Tamil Nadu sealed a mammoth 151-run win over Haryana in their Group C match of the Vijay Hazare Trophy here on Saturday. Andhra beat Kerala by 76 runs in the other group match. It was Kerala’s first defeat while Tamil Nadu continued their winning streak. Haryana captain Himanshu Rana won the toss and decided to bowl, after which Tamil Nadu scored 128 runs (123 balls, 6 fours, 6 sixes) from Jagadishan and opener B Sai Sudarshan’s 67 runs (74 balls, 5 fours, 1 six). Thanks to the score of 284 runs for seven wickets in 50 overs.

In this, a 151-run partnership was formed between Jagdishan and Sudarshan for the first wicket. Jagadishan thus became the fourth batsman after Kumar Sangakkara, Alviro Peters and Devdutt Padikkal to score four consecutive centuries in List A innings. Earlier he had scored centuries against Andhra, Chhattisgarh and Goa. Haryana bowlers were seen struggling to stop Tamil Nadu batsmen. The partnership was broken when Sudarshan was dismissed by left-arm spinner Nishant Sidhu. B Aparajit and B Indrajit soon fell victim to Mohit Sharma (2/43).

Anshul Kamboj gets rid of Jay Kaushik. But Jagdishan added a quick 61 runs along with ‘power hitter’ Shah Rukh Khan (46 runs). In reply, the Haryana team had lost two wickets for two runs in the second over. Openers CK Bishnoi and Yuvraj Singh were the victims of Sandeep Warrier (2/33) and M Mohammed (2/37) respectively. Haryana could not recover from this poor start and lost wickets at frequent intervals to be bundled out for 133 runs in 28.3 overs. Off-spinner Aparajith was the best bowler for Tamil Nadu with figures of three for 24 while R Sonu Yadav took two wickets. In other matches, Chhattisgarh defeated Bihar by 63 runs and Goa defeated Arunachal Pradesh by five wickets.

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