Mumbai beat Arunachal Pradesh by nine wickets in a Vijay Hazare Trophy match at the Gujarat College Cricket Ground ‘A’ in Ahmedabad. Arunachal Pradesh were bowled out for 73 after Shardul Thakur won the toss and opted to field. Thakur himself took 2-8, Harsh Tanna 2-11, Himanshu Singh 2-10, and Atharva Ankolekar 2-17.

Mumbai took only 5.3 overs to chase the target. Opener Raghuvanshi did the bulk of the scoring, finishing on 50 not out off 18 balls. He hit nine fours and a six. This is now the joint third-fastest fifty in the history of the Vijay Hazare Trophy.

Before the ongoing edition, Atit Sheth was the only batter to have hit a fifty below 18 balls in the tournament. Suyash Prabhudessai, however, had taken only 17 balls on December 21, five days before Raghuvanshi.

Fastest fifties in the Vijay Hazare Trophy

Elsewhere, at Dr YS Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium in Visakhapatnam, Tamil Nadu beat Uttar Pradesh by 114 runs. Tamil Nadu were reduced to 68-5 before Shahrukh Khan (132 not out in 85 balls, 13 fours, seven sixes) and Mohamed Ali (76 not out in 75, eight fours, one six) added an unbroken 216 in 149 balls to take Tamil Nadu to 284-5 in 47 overs. In response, Uttar Pradesh collapsed to 170 in 32.5 overs against Sandeep Warrier (2-33), Varun Chakravarthy (2-36), and Vijay Shankar (2-14).

The partnership between Shahrukh and Mohamed was the first double-hundred stand for the sixth wicket in the history of the Vijay Hazare Trophy.

Highest sixth-wicket stands in the Vijay Hazare Trophy

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