by The Professor » Sun Oct 16, 2022 3:36 pm
This sprawling behemoth of a continue is 4 rounds….or 72 matches old.
It really is a challenge to figure out what the heck is going on but….let’s give it a whirl.
The most impressive team so far is Mumbai who have played 4 and won 4, whilst Saurashtra, Chhattisgarh, Bengal and Andhra have won all their games that were not abandoned due to weather.
In Group E, last year’s winners Tamil Nadu aren’t having the run of the green this time out though – as they sit in 4th place of their group having won 2 and lost 2. This group also saw one of the most one-sided wins of the tournament in the tournament so far as top faced bottom. Sikkim won the toss and elected to bat….and would have immediately come to rue that decision after being 12-4 after 5 overs, 36-7 after 10 and eventually being 52 all out. Chattisgarh chased it down with 83 balls remaining.
In these tournaments you usually see an established player who makes lightwork of the dubious quality of bowling attacks – and this time out it is Prithvi Shaw. The Indian wunderkind is largely riding on the coat tails of an impressive 134 in Mumbai’s victory against Assam on Friday. Overall he has 237 runs at an average of 79.
Madhya Pradesh are 5th of 8 in Group A but their bowler, Venkatesh Iyer boasts the best figures of 6-20 in their win against Rajasthan. You suspect that that record might hold. Rahul Tewatia of top ranked Haryana currently has the most wickets with 11 @ 5.27 across his 4 games.
Matches continue all over the place, all the time until the 5th November.
"It has been said of the unseen army of the dead, on their everlasting march, that when they are passing a rural cricket ground the Englishman falls out of the ranks for a moment to look over the gate and smile."