2015–16 Vijay Hazare Trophy

2015–16 Vijay Hazare Trophy
Dates10 December 2015 – 28 December 2015
Administrator(s)BCCI
Cricket formatList A cricket
Tournament format(s)Round robin, then knockout
ChampionsGujarat (1st title)
Runners-upDelhi
Participants27
Most runsMandeep Singh (Punjab) (394)
Most wicketsJasprit Bumrah (Gujarat) (21)

The 2015–16 Vijay Hazare Trophy was the 23rd edition of the Vijay Hazare Trophy, an annual List A cricket tournament in India. It was held between 10 and 28 December 2015.[1] The final was contested by Delhi and Gujarat, only the second time they had played each other in a one-day match.[2] Gujarat won the final by 139 runs to claim their first Vijay Hazare title.[3] They advanced to play in the 2015–16 Deodhar Trophy.[4]

Venues

2015–16 Indian domestic cricket season
Ground Capacity
M. Chinnaswamy Stadium 35,000
KSCA Cricket Ground N/A
KSCA Cricket (2) Ground N/A
Feroz Shah Kotla Ground 42,000
Palam A Stadium N/A
Palam B Stadium N/A
Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium 28,000
Madhavrao Scindia Cricket Ground 15,000

Teams

Teams are divided into four groups as follows[5]

Group A Group B Group C Group D
Assam Gujarat Andhra Bengal
Hyderabad (H) Haryana Baroda Goa
Mumbai Jammu & Kashmir Delhi (H) Himachal Pradesh
Punjab Jharkhand Maharashtra Madhya Pradesh
Rajasthan Karnataka (H) Odisha Saurashtra (H)
Services Kerala Tripura Uttar Pradesh
Tamil Nadu Railways Vidarbha
  • Note: H – Host

Fixtures

Group A

Main article: 2015–16 Vijay Hazare Trophy Group A
Rank Team[6] Pld W L T NR Pts NRR
1 Tamil Nadu 6 5 1 0 0 20 +1.254
2 Punjab 6 5 1 0 0 20 +0.349
3 Mumbai 6 4 2 0 0 16 +0.866
4 Services 6 3 3 0 0 12 -0.321
5 Rajasthan 6 3 3 0 0 12 -0.772
6 Hyderabad 6 1 5 0 0 4 -0.454
7 Assam 6 0 6 0 0 0 -0.807
  •   Top two teams advanced to knockout stage

Group B

Main article: 2015–16 Vijay Hazare Trophy Group B
Rank Team[6] Pld W L T NR Pts NRR
1 Jharkhand 6 5 1 0 0 20 +0.860
2 Gujarat 6 5 1 0 0 20 +0.540
3 Karnataka 6 4 2 0 0 16 +1.465
4 Railways 6 3 3 0 0 12 -0.083
5 Haryana 6 2 4 0 0 8 -0.328
6 Kerala 6 2 4 0 0 8 -0.472
7 J&K 6 0 6 0 0 0 -1.933
  •   Top two teams advanced to knockout stage

Group C

Main article: 2015–16 Vijay Hazare Trophy Group C
Rank Team[6] Pld W L T NR Pts NRR
1 Vidarbha 6 5 1 0 0 20 +1.209
2 Delhi 6 5 1 0 0 20 +0.860
3 Baroda 6 4 2 0 0 16 +1.114
4 Maharashtra 6 3 3 0 0 12 +0.465
5 Andhra 6 2 4 0 0 8 -0.844
6 Odisha 6 1 5 0 0 4 -0.680
7 Assam 6 1 5 0 0 4 -2.407
  •   Top two teams advanced to knockout stage

Group D

Main article: 2015–16 Vijay Hazare Trophy Group D
Rank Team[6] Pld W L T NR Pts NRR
1 HP 5 4 1 0 0 16 +1.805
2 UP 5 4 1 0 0 16 +0.335
3 Saurashtra 5 3 2 0 0 12 +0.373
4 MP 5 3 2 0 0 12 +0.305
5 Bengal 5 1 4 0 0 4 -0.417
6 Goa 5 0 5 0 0 0 -1.851
  •   Top two teams advanced to knockout stage

Knockout stage

Of the 27 participants, the following 8 teams qualified for the knockout stage:

Quarterfinals Semifinals Final
         
D1 Himachal Pradesh 266/5 (49.2 ov)
A2 Punjab 263/8 (50 ov)
D1 Himachal Pradesh 200/9 (50 ov)
C2 Delhi 201/4 (41.1 ov)
B1 Jharkhand 126 (38 ov)
C2 Delhi 225 (50 ov)
C2 Delhi 134 (32.3 ov)
B2 Gujarat 273 (50 overs)
A1 Tamil Nadu 169/9 (41.3 ov)
D2 Uttar Pradesh 168 (48.2 ov)
B2 Gujarat 248/8 (50 ov)
A1 Tamil Nadu 217 (47.3 ov)
C1 Vidarbha 195 (48 ov)
B2 Gujarat 198/8 (48.1 ov)

Quarterfinals

23 December 2015
Scorecard
Punjab
263/8 (50 overs)
v
Himachal Pradesh
266/5 (49.2 overs)
Mandeep Singh 119 (145)
Pankaj Jaiswal 3/50 (10 overs)
Robin Bist 109* (135)
Siddarth Kaul 3/42 (8.2 overs)
Himachal Pradesh won by 5 wickets
KSCA Cricket Ground, Alur
Umpires: Nitin Menon and C. K. Nandan
Player of the match: Robin Bist (Himachal Pradesh)
  • Himachal Pradesh won the toss and elected to field.
23 December 2015
Scorecard
Delhi
225 (50 overs)
v
Jharkhand
126 (38 overs)
Nitish Rana 44 (76)
Rahul Shukla 3/60 (10 overs)
MS Dhoni 70* (108)
Suboth Bhati 4/21 (10 overs)
Delhi won by 99 runs
M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore
Umpires: Krishnamachari Bharatan and Anil Dandekar
Player of the match: Pawan Negi (Delhi)
  • Jharkhand won the toss and elected to field.
  • Rishabh Pant (Delhi) made his List A debut.
24 December 2015
Scorecard
Uttar Pradesh
168 (48.2 overs)
v
Tamil Nadu
169/9 (41.3 overs)
Rinku Singh 60 (97)
Lakshmipathy Balaji 3/32 (8.2 overs)
Baba Indrajith 48 (78)
Bhuvneshwar Kumar 3/25 (9 overs)
Tamil Nadu won by 1 wicket
M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore
Umpires: Nitin Menon and C. K. Nandan
Player of the match: Rajagopal Sathish (Tamil Nadu)
  • Uttar Pradesh won the toss and elected to bat.
24 December 2015
Scorecard
Vidarbha
195 (48 overs)
v
Gujarat
198/8 (48.1 overs)
Faiz Fazal 52 (66)
Jasprit Bumrah 4/38 (9 overs)
Parthiv Patel 57 (58)
Akshay Wakhare 3/30 (10 overs)
Gujarat won by 2 wickets
KSCA Cricket Ground, Alur
Umpires: Krishnamachari Bharatan and Nand Kishore
Player of the match: Axar Patel (Gujarat)
  • Vidarbha won the toss and elected to bat.

Semifinals

26 December 2015
Scorecard
Himachal Pradesh
200/9 (50 overs)
v
Delhi
201/4 (41.1 overs)
Bipul Sharma 51 (45)
Nitish Rana 2/16 (4 overs)
Unmukt Chand 80* (86)
Nikhil Gangta 1/14 (3 overs)
Delhi won by 6 wickets
M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore
Umpires: C. K. Nandan and Nand Kishore
Player of the match: Unmukt Chand (Delhi)
  • Delhi won the toss and elected to field.
  • Mayank Dagar (Himachal Pradesh) made his List A debut.
26 December 2015
Scorecard
Gujarat
248/8 (50 overs)
v
Tamil Nadu
217 (47.3 overs)
Chirag Gandhi 71 (82)
Ravichandran Ashwin 3/51 (10 overs)
Abhinav Mukund 104* (142)
Axar Patel 6/43 (10 overs)
Gujarat won by 31 runs
KSCA Cricket Ground, Alur
Umpires: Anil Dandekar and Nitin Menon
Player of the match: Axar Patel (Gujarat)
  • Tamil Nadu won the toss and elected to field.

Final

28 December 2015
Scorecard
Gujarat
273 (50 overs)
v
Delhi
134 (32.3 overs)
Parthiv Patel 105 (119)
Pawan Negi 2/36 (6 overs)
Pawan Negi 57 (47)
Jasprit Bumrah 5/28 (9.3 overs)
Gujarat won by 139 runs
M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore
Umpires: Krishnamachari Bharatan and Nitin Menon
Player of the match: Parthiv Patel and RP Singh (both Gujarat)
  • Delhi won the toss and elected to field.
  • Karan Patel (Gujarat) made his List A debut.

References

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