Alur: The Vijay Hazare Cup ODI series, a domestic cricket series in which 38 teams from Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Mumbai, Bengal, Railways and Services are participating, will start today. These teams are divided into 5 divisions namely A, B, C, D, E. The league round matches will be held in 6 cities namely Kolkata, Ranchi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Alur (Bangalore), Delhi in round robin mode. The venue for quarter finals, semi finals and finals will be decided later. Tamil Nadu has been placed in the Elite C category with teams from Goa, Ariana, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Bihar and Chhattisgarh. Tamil Nadu will face Bihar in their first round match at Alur today.
Out of the 20 Vijay Hazare series held so far, Tamil Nadu team has won the trophy maximum 5 times. Last time also advanced to the finals.
At that time, due to heavy rains, the title was lost to Himachal Pradesh in ‘V. Jayadevan’ style. So this time the Tamil Nadu team led by Baba Indrajith is going to field with great confidence. Also, Mohammed has been included in the squad in place of Natarajan who was injured in the match against Bangladesh XI. Tamil Nadu Team: Baba Indrajith (Captain), Washington Sundar (V.Captain), Sai Sudarsan, Sai Kishore, Shah Rukh Khan, Narayan Jagatheesan, Raghupathi Silambarasan, Manimaran Siddharth, Baba Aparajith, M. Mohammed, NS Chaturved, J. Kaushik , Sandeep Warrier, Sonu Yadav, Lakshmesha Suryaprakash.