CG slump as Pb cruise to Vijay Hazare win

Raipur: Chhattisgarh suffered their second consecutive defeat in the Vijay Hazare Trophy 2025-26, going down to Punjab by nine wickets at the Anantam Ground in Jaipur on Friday. Despite another spirited batting effort by skipper Amandeep Khare and wicketkeeper-batsman Mayank Verma—who astonishingly repeated their exact scores of 76 and 64 from the previous match—the rest of the team failed to deliver, both with bat and ball. Like the match against Goa, the Chhattisgarh team was bundled out in the 49th over against Punjab.With back-to-back losses denting their campaign, Chhattisgarh will need to regroup quickly and find answers beyond their dependable duo of Khare and Verma. TNN