Vijay Merchant Trophy: Uttar Pradesh’s opening batsman Shantanu Singh has batted brilliantly. He has created a stir by scoring 270 runs in 123 balls. Shantanu scored 9 runs in his stormy innings. He hit fours and sixes in 9 balls. In the Vijay Merchant Trophy match, the teams of Uttar Pradesh and Manipur are facing each other on the ground of Gwalior. Batting first, UP started its first innings with 599 runs for seven wickets on the basis of Shantanu’s double century. After this, UP bowlers bowled out Manipur’s first innings for 74 runs in 27.1 overs. Manipur’s second innings, which came to follow on, was also bundled out by UP for 98 runs in 33.2 overs.
Apart from Shantanu, Kushal Yadav scored 100 runs on 64 balls for UP. Talking about Shantanu’s batting, he hit fours and sixes in every corner of the stadium. He scored 270 runs at a strike rate of 219.51. During this, he hit 29 fours and 13 sixes. 9 bowlers from Manipur tried to stop Shantanu’s storm but Shantanu destroyed every bowler.
Peace has been lost since the third century
Shantanu could not convert his innings into his third century. He lost his wicket to Ramesh in 42.4 overs. Before returning to the pavilion, he had put UP in a very strong position. After his dismissal, Kusal took over the innings. He scored a not out century on 64 balls. During this, he hit 15 fours and two sixes. Apart from this, captain and wicketkeeper batsman Yuvraj scored 71 runs in 47 balls. Shlok Dinesh Sharma scored 45 runs on 51 balls and Prince scored 43 runs on 37 balls. Lucky scored the most runs for Manipur in both the innings. He scored 36 runs in the first innings and 42 runs in the second innings. UP’s Aditya Singh took a total of six wickets including Fifer.
