Yash kadam

Vijay Hazare Trophy: Smaran Ravichandran's century (101) alongside cameos by Krishnan Shrijith (78) and Abhinav Manohar (79) propelled Karnataka to win the 2024-25 Vijay Hazare Trophy, by 36 runs against Vidarbha, at the Kotambi Stadium on Saturday.

Vidarbha won the toss and opted to field first in the final and were able to get an early breakthrough when Devdutt Padikkal (8) nicked Yash Thakur’s delivery in the sixth over. Skipper Mayank Agarwal (32) and KV Aneesh (21) got the team through the opening phase of the game before the duo fell in quick succession.

Smaran alongside Shrijith went on to register a massive 160-run partnership for the fourth wicket to put Karnataka in control of the game.