Vijay Hazare Trophy, 2017-18: Final – Statistical Highlights

Karnataka finally converted their consistent run in the tournament into a title by clinching the Vijay Hazare Trophy after they defeated Saurashtra by 41 runs in the Finals. Mayank Agarwal continued his glorious run with a 79-ball 90 before his team collapsed from 141/2 to 253 all out by 46th over. After a decent start, Saurashtra lost wickets in a heap in the middle overs against the spinners. However, Cheteshwar Pujara scared Karnataka with a 94-run knock before getting run out.

All the stats and numbers that were recorded during Karnataka’s 3rd Vijay Hazare title:

2 – Mayank Agarwal became only the 2nd player to end the Inter-State FC and List A tournament as the leading run-getter in the same season. Mayank was the leading scorer in the Ranji Trophy with 1160 runs. Karnataka’s R Vijay Bhardwaj was the top scorer in the 1998/99 Ranji Trophy and also the Ranji Trophy One-Day.

3 – Number of times Karnataka won the Inter-State One-Day tournament all in the last five seasons. These are the 2nd most number of One-Day titles for any side. Tamil Nadu won the tournament five times which includes a shared instance.

5 – Mayank Agarwal’s 90 in this game is his 5th consecutive score of 80 and more. His last five innings in this Vijay Hazare read 90, 81, 140, 89 and 102. He scored less than 80 only once in the eight innings he batted in the tournament.

10 – Karnataka won the Indian Inter-State tournaments (Ranji, One-Dayers and Mushtaq Ali) on ten occasions. Besides the three Vijay Hazare Trophies, Karnataka also won the Ranji Trophy seven times. Only Mumbai (43) won more Inter-State tournaments than Karnataka. They went past Delhi’s tally of nine titles after this victory.

54.18 – Cheteshwar Pujara’s batting average in List A cricket. He scored 3955 runs in the 90 innings with ten hundreds and 25 fifties. Only Michael Bevan (15103 @ 57.87) and Virat Kohli (11030 @ 56.56) scored more runs in List A cricket than Pujara at a better average than 54.

94 – Only the 4th time Cheteshwar Pujara got out in the 90s in his professional career. Pujara got out on 94 against East Zone in a List A game in 2009 and was dismissed for 93 and 92 during a Ranji game and in a Test against Australia respectively in the 2016/17 season.

723 – Mayank Agarwal ended as the leading run-getter in this tournament with 723 runs; 333 runs more than the 2nd best KS Bharat. His tally is the highest for any player in a Vijay Hazare Trophy edition and he also became the first Indian to score 700 runs in a List A tournament. Sachin Tendulkar’s 673 runs the 2003 Cricket World Cup were the previous highest.

With 2141 runs for Karnataka across all formats, Mayank also became the first player to aggregate 2000 runs in an Indian domestic season. Shreyas Iyer made 1947 runs in the 2015/16 domestic season.

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