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The defending champions Haryana defeated Bengal in the preliminary quarter-final of the Vijay Hazare Trophy 2024-25 at the Moti Bagh Stadium in Vadodara on Thursday. With this, Haryana entered the quarterfinal round.
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Haryana did not get a good start
In the preliminary quarterfinal, Bengal won the toss and decided to bowl first. Haryana did not get a good start and Mukesh Kumar along with Mohammed Shami sent both the openers to the pavilion within 50.
Parth Shiv Vats (62) and Nishant Sindhu (64) took the team beyond 200. Sumit Kumar (41) and Rahul Tewatia (29) played important roles in taking Haryana closer to 300. Shami took 3 wickets while Mukesh Kumar took 2 wickets.
Shami bowled well
Shami ended with figures of 3/61 from his 10-over spell. The veteran seamer dismissed opener Himanshu Rana (14) before getting rid of Dinesh Bana (15) and Anshul Kamboj (4) at the death.
In 135 List A matches, Shami has raced to 257 wickets at 23-plus. 195 of his scalps in the 50-over format have come for India. Shami picked 5 wickets in Vijay Hazare Trophy 2024-25.
Haryana won by 72 runs
Chasing the target of 299 runs, Bengal had a good start and both the openers made a partnership of 70 runs for the first wicket. After this, as soon as both the openers were out, Haryana bowlers wreaked havoc and bundled out the entire Bengal team for 226 runs.
Haryana won the pre-quarterfinal match of the Vijay Hazare Trophy 2024-25 by 72 runs. Parth Vats was chosen Player of the Match for taking 3 wickets and playing an important role in the team's victory. Apart from Parth, Nishant Sindhu and Anshul Kamboj took 2-2 wickets.
Second half-century for Parth Vats
20-year-old Parth Vats, who made his debut for Haryana in List A cricket with the Vijay Hazare Trophy 2024-25, was superb versus Bengal. He hit six fours in his 77-ball knock. This was his 2nd fifty of the tournament. After 7 matches, he has amassed 234 runs at 39. His scores read as: 1, 27, 27, 52*, 18, 47, and 62.