16 fours and 11 sixes… Rituraj Gaikwad made the bowlers suffer, played this many innings in just 74 balls.

The Vijay Hazare Trophy is the biggest List A format tournament in Indian cricket. It is through this tournament that players stake their claim for a place in the Indian ODI team. In this tournament being played between 38 teams, fans are getting to see one great match after another. A stormy innings was also seen in the match played between Maharashtra and Services teams on Monday. This innings was played by Maharashtra team captain Rituraj Gaikwad. Rituraj Gaikwad rained fours and sixes in this match and gave his team a one-sided victory.

Rituraj Gaikwad played a stormy innings

In this match played between the two teams, Rituraj Gaikwad won the toss and decided to bowl first. His decision was proved right by the bowlers. The Services team, batting first, could play only 48 overs and were all out after scoring 204 runs. Captain Mohit Ahlawat scored the highest 61 runs for Services. Apart from him, no batsman could touch the 30-run mark. On the other hand, Pradeep Dadhe and Satyajit Bachhav took the maximum 3-3 wickets for the Maharashtra team.

In such a situation, Maharashtra team got a target of 205 runs to win this match, but it proved to be very small in front of Rituraj Gaikwad's innings. Rituraj Gaikwad scored very fast while opening and showed stormy attitude against every bowler. He scored an unbeaten 148 runs in 74 balls in this innings. Rituraj Gaikwad hit 16 fours and 11 sixes in his innings. Let us tell you, during this innings, Rituraj took only 57 balls to reach 100 runs and achieved this target in just 20.2 overs.

Maharashtra's second consecutive win

Maharashtra team has made a great start in this tournament. It has managed to win both its opening matches. Before Services, Maharashtra faced Rajasthan. In that match too, Maharashtra team won by 3 wickets. However, Ruturaj Gaikwad's bat remained silent against Rajasthan. He was out after scoring 1 run off 5 balls. But this time he proved to be the biggest match winner for his team.