HIM vs SER

Himachal Pradesh making their debut in the finals and they have outplayed the Services' side. A stellar performance from the bowling side as they got the entire team all out with almost 4 overs remaining and they have shown with their excellent and consistent bowling and fielding as to why they deserve to be in the finals. The match started with the bowlers giving an exceptional performance where the batters could barely middle the ball for the big runs and to add to it, it was Rishi Dhawan who lead the team from the front with the bat, ball and the fielding as he scored 84 runs, took 4 wickets and one catch! Talk about a one man army here! The batters had absolutely no reply to this and the pressure of the increasing run rate, lead to the wickets falling one after the other. The batters like Paliwal, who made a 55 and Akash Vasisht towards the lower order making a 45, did what they could but the run rate and the innings was so slow due to them not being able to connect the ball for the big shots that they were eventually going to lose the match. It was an excellent example of captaincy and leading the team by example which motivated the players of Himachal Pradesh to collectively play as one strong unit and march their way to their first ever finals of the Vijay Hazare Trophy.

Thank you so much for tuning in for the match. This is Navjeevan Rajput and Pranav Danani signing off. Until Next time.

Himachal Pradesh win by 77 runs.

46.1 Rishi Dhawan to Pal Raj Bahadur, GAME SET MATCH!! HIMACHAL PRADESH REACHES THE FINALS!! Full and straight on the stumps that one. Raj clears his front leg and throws his bat at that one and misses it completely and the ball goes through to hit that middle stump!

Raj Bahadur b Dhawan 1 (2b 0x4 0x6)

45.5 Pankaj Jaiswal to Abhishek Tiwari, CLEANED BOWLED!! Full and straight on the stumps, pace on delivery. Tiwari gets in line and tries to turn that away but that was just too good for him. Tiwari misses and the ball goes through to shatter those stumps behind him.

Abhishek Tiwari b Jaswal 14 (15b 1x4 0x6)

Some runs coming in for the Services and the Himachal Pradesh are not able to get the two wickets. The bowlers will look to experiment here, as they have a finals coming up.

44.4 Rishi Dhawan to Abhishek Tiwari, WELCOME BOUNDARY!! Short and angling in, Tiwari tries to pull but gets a top edge that flies down towards fine leg and finds the ropes on the bounce

44.1 Rishi Dhawan to Rahul Singh, on the length and angling across outside off, Rahul taps this towards point and takes one. A bit of hesitation and the fielder manages to hit the stumps at the striker's end but Tiwari manages to make it in.