Stats: Most runs in a single edition of Vijay Hazare Trophy

Mayank Agarwal’s blistering form in the 2017/18 continued in the Vijay Hazare Trophy as the Karnataka batsman carried his team into the finals of the tournament. In the seven innings Mayank batted in this tourney, he scored three hundred and three scores in the 80s. The opening batsman, with the 633 runs, leads the 2nd highest run-getter of this tournament by 250 runs. Across the three formats, Mayank already crossed 2000 runs in the ongoing 2017/18 domestic season where no other player even scored 1500 runs.

After bagging a pair in the Ranji Trophy game against Hyderabad, Mayank amassed 1000 runs in a single month (November). Thus, Mayank became the first Indian player and also the first in India to score 1000 first-class runs in a calendar month. He ended the tournament with 1160 runs in the 13 innings he batted with help of five centuries. He sparkled in the Syed Mushtaq Ali tournament as well with three fifties in the nine innings to score 258 at an S/R of 144.94.

With the 633 runs he scored in Vijay Hazare Trophy, Mayank Agarwal set a new record for most runs in an Inter-State Domestic List A competition in India. The Karnataka opener broke Dinesh Karthik’s record which the Tamil Nadu player set in the previous edition with 607 runs. The Inter-State One-Day tournament was referred as the Ranji One-Day tournament since its inception in 1993/94 until it was named after Vijay Hazare from the 2006/07 season.

The ongoing edition is the 25th edition of the Inter-State One-Day competition and only seven players managing to score over 500 runs in an edition. Punjab’s Dinesh Mongia made 520 in the 2005/06 season by virtue of which he made a return to the Indian team. In the 2008/09 season, Virat Kohli scored 534 runs that helped him to make it to the Indian middle-order. The left-handed openers from Bengal and Tamil Nadu, Shreevats Goswami and Abhinav Mukund respectively, matched each other run by run in the 2009/10 season. Goswami (568) edged past Mukund (558) by ten runs despite playing an innings lesser in that tournament. Prior to Dinesh Karthik, no player came close to surpass their tally.

Most runs in an Indian Inter-State Domestic List A tournament:

(Stats as on February 24, 2018)