Vidarbha beat Assam to top Group A of Vijay Hazare trophy

Top-order batsmen Jitesh Sharma (83) and Ganesh Satish (73) hit half-centuries as Vidarbha trounced Assam by 104 runs to finish on top of Group A points table at the Vijay Hazare Trophy here today.
Sharma and Satish forged a 99-run partnership for the second wicket in 16.5 overs to help Vidarbha score 273 for 9. Siddhesh Wath and Apoorv Wankhade hit 35 and 32 respectively to boost their team even as as the lower order failed to contribute.
Vidarbha then returned to dismiss Assam for 169 in 41.1 overs, riding on off-spinner Abhishek Chaurasia's 6 for 37 at the Karnail Singh stadium.

Assam's chase was fuelled by Rishav Das's 96-ball 57 but none of the other batsmen could provide any support to the opener.
Other opener Pallavkumar Das went early and Pritam Debnath, Arun Karthik, and Amit Verma -- all found starts but failed to capitalise.
The second-best score for Assam was wicketkeeper Kunal Saikia's 34-ball 38.

In another match, Haryana notched up a 85-run win over Baroda at the Feroz Shah Kotla but it was not enough for a spot in the quarter-finals.
Opting to bat, Haryana rode on half-centuries from wicketkeeper-batsman Nitin Saini, Rahul Dagar, and Rahul Tewatia to score 266-5.

Dagar and Tewatia shared an unbroken 136-run stand for the sixth wicket to provide the late charge.
Haryana then dismissed Baroda for 181 with new-ball bowlers Sanjay Pahal and Ashish Hooda snapping three wickets each to spark the collapse.
Opener Kedar Devdhar slammed 81 off 113 balls studded with eight fours and a six but Baroda lost their last eight wickets for 72 runs after being well-placed at 109 for 2 in 19.4 overs.
In another match, Odisha beat Punjab by 69 runs, riding on skipper Govinda Poddar's third List A hundred at the Palam ground here.
Coming into bat at 5-1 in the sixth over, Poddar stayed till the 42nd over. His 119-ball 120 was studded with 12 fours and a six. He found support from allrounder Biplab Samantray (48 off 61 balls) as Odisha reached 240.

Left-arm spinner Dhiraj Singh then returned with a career-best figure of 5 for 49.
Shubham Gill (41) and Anmolpreet Singh (58), who represented India in the Under-19 World Cup in Bangladesh last year, were the top scorers, but their middle and lower-order failed to put up a fight to be eventually bowled out for 171 in 30 overs.