The primary day of 2018 witnessed a brand new Ranji Trophy title holder within the type of Vidarbha. They received their maiden title by beating Delhi at Indore underneath the management of Faiz Fazal.
Fazal had received the toss and selected to subject first and Vidarbha had been up in opposition to a robust Delhi batting lineup which consisted of stars like Gautam Gambhir, Rishabh Pant, and Nitish Rana. Nonetheless, they had been to be shocked by the unbelievable spell of tempo bowling by Rajneesh Gurbani who took a hat-trick within the first innings and had unbelievable figures of 6/59. Regardless of the strong effort from Dhruv Shorey who scored 145 from 294 deliveries the group might solely handle to place 295 on the board.
The Vidarbha batters additionally made positive that Gurbani’s efforts didn’t go to waste. There have been essential knocks from Fazal (67 off 101), Wasim Jaffer (78 of 150), Aditya Sarwate (79 off 154), and Siddhesh Niral (74 off 107) together with an unbelievable century from Akshay Wadkar (133 off 262) to take the rating to 547 and get a wholesome lead of 252 going into the second innings.
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The Delhi batters did produce just a few first rate knocks as soon as once more from Shorey who scored 62 from 142 deliveries and Nitish Rana (64 off 113) however ultimately, they had been lastly bowled out for 280 and will solely handle to set a goal of simply 29 runs which Vidarbha chased down simply, profitable the sport by 9 wickets ultimately.
It was Rajneesh Gurbani who obtained the Participant of the Match award for taking eight wickets within the sport. This was a fantastic underdog story in home cricket which didn’t solely finish there as Vidarbha additionally went on to retain the title within the following season, turning into solely the sixth group within the Ranji Trophy to do this.
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