Courtesy: BCCI/Sports18
On Wednesday, November 27, during the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy (SMAT) clash between Tamil Nadu and Baroda at the Holkar Stadium in Indore, Vijay Shankar smashed three consecutive sixes against Hardik Pandya. The incredible display of power-hitting happened during the latter stages of Tamil Nadu’s innings, which helped post a big score of 221/6 on the board only for Baroda to chase it down on the last ball with three wickets in hand.
During Tamil Nadu’s innings, Vijay Shankar was on song with the bat against Hardik Pandya, who’s tactic of delivering slower balls into the pitch didn’t work at all. Shankar tonked the first six off Pandya over the deep mid-wicket region before creaming the second six over long-off, while the third consecutive six was a flat-batted smash, which went over the rope to the left of the long-on fielder.
Watch the video of Hardik Pandya being hit for three sixes by Vijay Shankar:
Apart from Vijay Shankar’s 42 off 22 with four maximums, all the other batters in the Tamil Nadu lineup got into double figures with a strike-rate in excess of 150 as Narayan Jagadeesan scored a fifty, while Lukman Meriwala picked up three wickets. In the run chase, Baroda batters were just as good as their opposing counterparts, most prominently Hardik Pandya, who redeemed himself with 69 off 30 with four fours and seven maximums, to play a key role in his team’s win.
Below are the playing XIs of Tamil Nadu and Baroda for their SMAT 2024 clash in Indore:
Tamil Nadu: Baba Indrajith, Narayan Jagadeesan (wk), Boopathi Kumar, Rithik Easwaran, Shahrukh Khan (c), Vijay Shankar, M Mohammed, Varun Chakaravarthy, R Sai Kishore, Gurjapneet Singh, Sandeep Warrier
Baroda: Ninad Ashvinkumar Rathva, Mitesh Patel (wk), Shivalik Sharma, Krunal Pandya (c), Atit Sheth, Hardik Pandya, Vishnu Solanki, Bhanu Pania, Mahesh Pithiya, Raj Limbani, Lukman Meriwala
