The Elite Group D match of the Vijay Hazare Trophy 2020-21 will be played between Maharashtra and Puducherry on 1st March at KL Saini Ground in Jaipur.
Maharashtra Team Updates:
With the kind of players in the squad, the expectations were huge on Maharashtra.
However, they failed to deliver and are almost out of the tournament with one game yet to be played.
Despite posting 328 runs while batting first, they couldn’t defend the score in their last game against Delhi.
Out of their 4 matches, they have won 2 and lost 2 matches and currently sitting at the 3rd spot in the Group D standings with 8 points.
Yash Nahar and Ruturaj Gaikwad will probably open the inning for the Maharashtra team.
Rahul Tripathi, Shamshuzama Kazi will take care of the lower order.
Vishant More (wk), Kedar Jadhav, Azim Kazi will form the middle order.
Kedar Jadhav will lead the Maharashtra team as a Captain. He is also good Batsman.
Vishant More will do the wicket keeping for Maharashtra team.
Satyajeet Bachhav and Azim Kazi will take care of the spin bowling of the team.
Taranjit Singh and Pradeep Dadhe will lead the pace attack of the team.
Puducherry Team Updates:
Puducherry have won only one game out of their 5 matches and are currently placed at the bottom of the table with 4 points.
After losing 3 consecutive matches, they have got something to be cheerful about as they won their previous game against Himachal Pradesh by a huge margin of 104 runs.
Damodaran Rohit and S Karthik will probably open the inning for the Puducherry team. Both are well known inning openers.
Sheldon Jackson, Paras Dogra, Sagar Udeshi will form the middle order.
S Suresh Kumar, Sagar Trivedi will be handy in death overs.
Damodaran Rohit will lead the Puducherry team as a Captain. He is also a good Alrounder.
S Karthik will do the Wicket Keeping duty for his Puducherry team.
S Ashwath and Sagar Udeshi will take care of the pace attack for his team.
Last 5 Head to Head:
Maharashtra: 3 Won Puducherry: 2 Won
Fantasy Tips
In wicket keeping, Sheldon Jackson will be best choice.
Damodaran Rohit(C), S Karthik(WK), Sheldon Jackson(WK), Paras Dogra, Sagar Udeshi, S Suresh-Kumar, Sagar Trivedi, Ashith Rajiv, Pankaj Singh, S Ashwath, S Santhamoorthy, Anton Andrew Subikshan, AS Govindaraajan, Vikneshwaran Marimuthu, Ramachandran Ragupathy, R Premraj, B Surendar, P Thamaraikannan, Raghu Sharma, Fabid Ahmed, M Mathan, K Vignesh