Deepak Hooda’s 180 steers Rajasthan to Vijay Hazare remaining after 17 years | Cricket Information – Occasions of India

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Deepak Hooda’s 180 steers Rajasthan to Vijay Hazare remaining after 17 years | Cricket Information – Occasions of India

Rajasthan‘s disaster man, Deepak Hooda, as soon as once more made a large distinction to the crew’s fortune with a monumental 180 off 128 balls to eradicate Karnataka by six wickets within the semifinal of the Vijay Hazare Trophy in Rajkot on Thursday.
Chasing a tough rating of 282, Rajasthan had been reeling at 23/3 in 5.5 overs. Hooda led from the entrance as he entered right into a decisive 255-run partnership with 19-year-old Karan Lamba (73 not out off 112 balls).Hooda’s knock, which was laced with 19 4s and 5 6s, is the best particular person rating in opposition to Karnataka within the home one-dayers.
The duo overpowered the bowlers with fairly an ease and completed the match with six overs remaining. Karnataka captain Mayank Agarwal acknowledged within the post-match presentation that ‘they (Hooda and Lamba) stored dominating us, countering each change we made’.
It’s after 17 years that Rajasthan have made it to the ultimate of the Hazare Trophy. They final performed a remaining within the 2006-07 season once they misplaced the summit conflict in opposition to Mumbai by 72 runs. They are going to be up in opposition to Haryana within the remaining scheduled to be performed in Rajkot on November 16.
That is turning out to be a superb season for 28-year-old Hooda who’s at the moment the third highest run-getter of the match with 480 runs to his title in 8 matches. Hooda was additionally the best run-scorer for Rajasthan within the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2023-24 the place he made 179 in 5 matches. The nationwide selectors should be maintaining a tally of him. The dashing middle-order batter final performed an ODI in November 2022 and his final T20 worldwide look was in February this 12 months.
Earlier, having determined to bat first, Karnataka batters had been stored on a decent leash for half of the innings by Rajasthan’s tempo assault. However later, middle-order batters Abhinav Manohar and Manoj Bhandage counter-attacked, taking their crew to 282/8 in 50 overs.
Placing up an exhibition of a variety of photographs, Manahor and Bhandage mustered 91 off 80 balls (10×4, 3×6) and 63 off 39 balls (3×4, 5×6) respectively. Till 25 overs, Karnataka struggled to even get the strike price to 4, nevertheless it was over eight within the final 10 overs.
Bowling his first over, left-arm seamer Aniket Choudhary introduced the primary breakthrough when Karnataka captain edged to the ‘keeper within the sixth over. It was a wicket maiden for the veteran who impressed together with his line and size. The 33-year-old completed with figures of 10-1-43-2.
It was an abject batting show by the Karnataka top-order as they had been decreased to 87/4 in 22.5 overs.
Actually, Karnataka wanted extra from their batters and bowlers to beat the Hooda-Lamba duo.