Abhishek’s innings helps Vidarbha reach a respectable total against UP in Cooch Behar Trophy’21

Abhishek Agrawal played an amazing innings of 96 of 220 balls which helped Vidarbha reach the total of 270 in the Cooch Behar Trophy (2021-22).
As the game of day 1 and day 2 were called off due to wet outfield, the Uttar Pradesh team winning the toss first put the Vidarbha team to bat first. The pitch was not so easy to bat on and was helpful for seamers, where the seamers of both the teams were benefitted. Batting 1st the Vidarbha team scored 270 runs all out.

The openers gave a good start to the team and Rohit Binkar scored 48 of 89 balls. But as the wicket started falling, it was only Abhishek Agrawal left on one end and fighting until his wicket fell in the 86th over, when his team’s score was 252. The Uttar Pradesh team’s bowlers were good enough to to make the Vidarbha teams batters struggle enough. And so were the bowlers of Vidarbha. With captain Tejas Soni and Ashit Singh, both taking 3-3 wickets. The bowlers of Vidarbha showed up impressive bowling performance.

Captain Tejas Soni, bowled 15 overs in his spell taking 3 wickets and bowling 7 maiden overs giving 33 runs. His wickets also includes the Uttar Pradesh team’s captain, Vipraj Nigam. Ashit Singh, also bowled 15 overs and giving just 8 runs, bowling 8 maidens and taking 3 wickets.
Both the teams are struggling to win this match and get the important point and improving their position in the points table.