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2015–16 Vijay Hazare Trophy
Dates10 December 2015 – 28 December 2015
Administrator(s) BCCI
Cricket format List A cricket
Tournament format(s) Round robin, then knockout
Champions Gujarat (1st title)
Runners-up Delhi
Participants27
Most runs Mandeep Singh (Punjab) (394)
Most wickets Jasprit 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

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

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

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

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

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

  1. ^ "Global - Cricket news, live scores, fixtures, features and statistics on ESPNcricinfo". ESPNcricinfo.
  2. ^ "Axar threat looms for top-heavy Delhi". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 27 December 2015.
  3. ^ "Parthiv, RP Singh help Gujarat clinch maiden Vijay Hazare title". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 28 December 2015.
  4. ^ PTI (20 July 2015). "BCCI revamps Deodhar Trophy, Vijay Hazare Trophy formats, announces 900 matches". The Hindu.
  5. ^ "Duleep Trophy omitted from 2015-16 calendar". ESPNcricinfo.
  6. ^ a b c d "Vijay Hazare Trophy Table - 2015–16". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 18 June 2018.

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