Sohraab Dhaliwal

Chandrakant Sakure (5/25) finished with a five-wicket haul as Madhya Pradesh registered a 80-run win over Ranji Trophy finalists Mumbai in a Group C match of the Vijay Hazare Trophy on Tuesday.

For the second match in succession, Madhya Pradesh rode Rajat Patidar's blistering knock to cross the line.

Apart from seamer Ishwar Chaudhary and the wily 45-year-old leggie Pravin Tambe, the rest of the West Zone bowlers looked pedestrian. Seamer Shardul Thakur doesn't seem to be cut out for this format, Irfan Pathan seems to be losing his pace by the day and Abhishek Nayar seems to have lost his steam after a long Ranji season.

Wicket-keeper Naman Ojha led from the front with a quick half-century up the order to help Madhya Pradesh register a five-wicket win over Railways in a Central Zone match of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Twenty20 tournament, here on Sunday.

Medium-pacer Chandrakant Sakure (5/25) ran through the Mumbai batting line-up to help Madhya Pradesh notch up a 80-run victory in the third round match of the Vijay Hazare Trophy here at the MRF Pachyappas Ground on Tuesday .

Sudip Chatterjee's 91-run knock and a half-century by skipper Manoj Tiwary enabled Bengal eke out a 14-run win over Madhya Pradesh in a Vijay Hazare Trophy Group C one-day match.

Priyank Panchal hit a half-century as Gujarat posted a comfortable four-wicket win over Madhya Pradesh in a Group C match of the Vijay Hazare Trophy on Wednesday.

For the third consecutive day at the ongoing 26th All India JP Atray Memorial tournament for the Trident Cup, the rain gods played hide and seek, disrupting proceedings in both the contests played on Saturday.

When Chhattisgarh played against Team Rajasthan, the intent was missing. Most of their batsmen - except Amandeep Khare - had no idea how to take the initiative. It reflected in their performance when they looked a clueless lot against the likes of Aniket Choudhary, Khaleel Ahmed and Deepak Chahar.

Irfan Pathan and Ishan Kishan played stellar roles in West and East Zone's comprehensive wins over North and Central Zone respectively in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy T20 Inter Zonal tournament on Monday.

MP coach Harvinder Singh Sodhi had jokingly said on Wednesday how they have asked their captain Harpreet Singh Bhatia to have a proper practice to toss the coin. With cold conditions and 9 am start, the toss has become vital in the ongoing Central Zone Syed Mushtaq Ali Twenty20 tournament.

Rishabh Pant shattered IPL auction records, securing a staggering ₹27 crore bid, followed by Shreyas Iyer at ₹26.75 crore. Shockingly, IPL veterans like Kane Williamson, Shardul Thakur, and Aiden Markram went unsold, alongside Prithvi Shaw and Mayank Agarwal. The unpredictable auction underscores the IPL's cutthroat competition, leaving fans eager to see how these high-stakes gambles play out on the field.