- BATSMENRB4s6sSR101.2 77.1 kmph, goes on with the arm, Taide misjudges the line and lets it go, the ball knocks the off stump, Taide walks off after a good knock. 340/97.2 length ball just outside the off stump. Mokhade has to play at it as he looks to defend it. The ball was moving in and it looks like he missed it but Ishan Kishan appeals and convinces the captain to go for the review. Patidar asks for the review at the last moment. Replays show that the ball's seam grazes past the outside edge! That's the first wicket and Rest of India celebrate 40/122.2 cleans him up! pitches in line with the stumps, not much turn, Shorey plays bit towards the leg side, down the wrong line and is bowled. 80/222.5 another one bites the dust, tossed up on the off stump line and spins slightly and takes the outside edge to Ishan Kishen, who takes the catch to dismiss Malewar. 80/373.2 this time he falls, down the track and Rathod looks to go big once again, this time skews it high in the air and Gurnoor at mid-off moves a few paces backwards, settles and takes the catch. 264/481.1 peach of a delivery! Pitches and moves away slightly to take the outside edge of Wadkar's bat, as he pushed forward and Ishan Kishan gobbles it up cleanly. 275/588.2 and there's the wicket! Yash Thakur after consulting Taide opts to go for the review. On the stumps and coming in. He looks to play at it and misses. For the naked eye, it seemed as if it was going down the leg stump line but the replays show that it was hitting the top of the leg stump. Vidarbha lose a review and Kamboj gets onto the wickets column 294/689.1 on the pads. Beats the flick. Beaten by the movement in as he closes the face of bat early. Hit on the pads and umpire raises his finger. Surprisingly he opts not to review. He should've asked for one. Anyway this is turning Rest of India's way 295/798.3 strangles him down the leg stump line. He gets a glove on the way to the keeper. The plan was clear yet the batter fell into the trap 332/8101.4 plays forward to an arm ball, going straight on from round the wicket, takes the edge and Gaikwad at slip takes a low catch in front of him. Umpires checking for a clean catch, fingers are under the ball and the final wicket falls. 342/10Extras32 (b 11, lb 16, nb 5)TOTAL342 all out (101.4 Overs, RR: 3.36)Fall of wickets: 1-40 (Aman Mokhade, 7.2 ov), 2-80 (Dhruv Shorey, 22.2 ov), 3-80 (Danish Malewar, 22.5 ov), 4-264 (Yash Rathod, 73.2 ov), 5-275 (Akshay Wadkar, 81.1 ov), 6-294 (Yash Thakur, 88.2 ov), 7-295 (Harsh Dubey, 89.1 ov), 8-332 (Darshan Nalkande, 98.3 ov), 9-340 (Atharva Taide, 101.2 ov), 10-342 (Aditya Thakare, 101.4 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ WD NB A Kamboj 13 2 43 1 3.3 0 1 Akash Deep 19 4 51 3 2.68 0 3 Gurnoor Brar 17 4 53 1 3.11 0 1 SS Jain 26.4 0 94 2 3.52 0 0 MJ Suthar 26 4 74 3 2.84 0 0
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- BATSMENRB4s6sSR35.4 review for LBW decision! Abhimanyu Easwaran had his bat up to suggest that he got an inside edge. The umpire gives him out. Easwaran opts to go for the review immediately. Ball pitched outside off and hits him on the pad first and that's plumb 105/320 review taken for the LBW decision! Looks like an umpire's call in the replay. Pitching around off stump and coming in. He looks to play with the full face of the bat. Misses the ball and gets rapped on the pads. The ball would be hitting the leg stump and it's an umpire's call 52/126.3 uses his feet and looks to go big on the onside once again, misses it and the keeper collects the ball and has a lot of time to get rid of the bails. A terrible mistake by Yash Dhull. 73/266.3 looking to go big, put his foot forward and looks to launch it high over the long off fence, miscues it high in the air, Yash Rathod running in from long off takes the catch. 191/938.5 he is dismissed looking for the third boundary in the over! Short delivery outside the off stump. He cuts it straight into the hands of the deep backward point fielder. Whether or not he saw the fielder, it's for certain that he fell into the trap laid for him. The knowing smiles from the fielders suggests that they planned for such a dismissal 119/444 hit on the pads as he was looking to defend it. Review taken. At the first sighting it seemed like there might be an edge and also the impact might be around the off stump. The first replay suggests that it wasn't that close. He was plumb and Ishan Kishan has to walk back 124/553.1 a loud appeal! Was it pitching outside the leg stump? The fielding team have a discussion before opting to review. Was it the inside edge or the fact that the ball might have pitched outside leg that was the doubt? It seemed to hit the batter in line with the stumps. Replays confirm there wasn't an edge. Now it's all down to where it was pitching. It's pitching on line with the stumps and hitting middle of the middle stump. Vidarbha make the first move on day 3. Trouble deepens for Rest of India 142/663.4 all it takes is a ball to get you out! He was thinking that another short ball was on the way but Yash bowls a yorker on the stumps that Saransh has no answer to. This is amazing bowling by Yash Thakur as Saransh looked assured in his stay at the crease but for a couple of deliveries. 175/766 short of a good length delivery outside the off stump. Immediately on the back foot is Akash Deep as he looks to defend it. He manages to play it but it goes up in the air as he is deceived by bounce on it. He wasn't expecting it to bounce as much as it did. The fielder runs in from cover and takes the catch. Rest of India are in trouble now 191/869.5 short ball at 133.8 kmph, going for the pull shot and gets a top edge at deep backward square leg, Harsh Dubey waiting there, settles under it and takes the catch. 214/10Extras4 (nb 4)TOTAL214 all out (69.5 Overs, RR: 3.06)Fall of wickets: 1-52 (Aryan Juyal, 19.6 ov), 2-73 (Yash Dhull, 26.3 ov), 3-105 (Abhimanyu Easwaran, 35.4 ov), 4-119 (Ruturaj Gaikwad, 38.5 ov), 5-124 (Ishan Kishan, 43.6 ov), 6-142 (Manav Suthar, 53.1 ov), 7-175 (Saransh Jain, 63.4 ov), 8-191 (Akash Deep, 65.6 ov), 9-191 (Rajat Patidar, 66.3 ov), 10-214 (Gurnoor Brar, 69.5 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ WD NB HS Dubey 22 5 58 2 2.63 0 0 AS Thakare 11 1 40 1 3.63 0 0 DG Nalkande 8 1 26 1 3.25 0 0 Yash Thakur 16.5 3 66 4 3.92 0 3 PR Rekhade 12 3 24 2 2 0 1
- BATSMENRB4s6sSR14.3 comes down the track and looks to slog it down the track. Doesn't get enough bat on it as the fielder at deep midwicket settles under it and takes the catch 42/123.5 short down the leg side 132.6 kmph, Mokhade goes for the hook and seems to have got some bat to it and through to the keeper, after some discussion with the non-striker, he goes for a review. There is a spike, bat involved. 64/240.3 good length delivery nips in and strikes the pad in line as he played forward, loud appeal for lbw, given by the umpire, Shorey takes the review, no bat involved, it is umpires call and Shorey has to walk. 105/536.2 fuller on the legs and looking to drive down the ground, misses it and strikes low on the pad, loud appeal for a catch or lbw, Review taken, there is an inside edge onto the pads and lobs up behind the wicket on the off side and taken by the slip fielder running in. 97/339 fuller and wider delivery outside the off stump, goes after it and finds the edge through to keeper, who dives low down and takes the catch. 104/480.3 width outside the off stump, cuts and gets the edge to the keeper. The new ball does the trick. 190/855.3 GONE - GONE.. It was short and for change it was just outside off. Harsh hangs back and plays the ramp, doesn't get the desired timing as he would've liked. Saransh at fine-third region takes a fine catch. 144/664.4 gone.. Fielder was just moved leg slip and the ball has carried to the exact position. It was flat and quick on middle and leg, forced the batter to play off the backfoot. Parth Rekhade who was hanging onto the backfoot tries to work off his pads but ended but flicking one straight to Rajat. 155/794.1 finally..! arm ball from Saransh, angled in and quicker too. gets an outside edge and Gaikwad at the first slip takes a one-handed stunner to close the innings 232/1084.5 quicker on off, pushes hard and Juyal at silly point snaffles a good catch 207/9Extras14 (b 5, lb 5, nb 4)TOTAL232 all out (94.1 Overs, RR: 2.46)Fall of wickets: 1-42 (Atharva Taide, 14.3 ov), 2-64 (Aman Mokhade, 23.5 ov), 3-97 (Danish Malewar, 36.2 ov), 4-104 (Yash Rathod, 38.6 ov), 5-105 (Dhruv Shorey, 40.3 ov), 6-144 (Harsh Dubey, 55.3 ov), 7-155 (Parth Rekhade, 64.4 ov), 8-190 (Akshay Wadkar, 80.3 ov), 9-207 (Yash Thakur, 84.5 ov), 10-232 (Darshan Nalkande, 94.1 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ WD NB SS Jain 21.1 0 52 2 2.45 0 0 Akash Deep 10 4 13 0 1.3 0 1 MJ Suthar 33 9 82 2 2.48 0 0 A Kamboj 12 1 34 4 2.83 0 1 Gurnoor Brar 18 5 41 2 2.27 0 2
- BATSMENRB4s6sSR6.1 moves back and strikes the pad, could be going down, loud appeal and given. Easwaran reviews it after consultation with Ishan Kishan. No bat involved, that is going to hit the stumps. Rest of India lose their review. 24/24 lovely delivery goes through the gate and knocks the off stump, played down the wrong line, trying to work it through the onside. 16/125.5 uses his feet and looks to go big on the onside, and he hits it high in the air to deep midwicket, picks out the fielder, Rekhade. 80/516.5 fuller delivery and Patidar drives in the air and Thakare jumps up and takes the catch above his head, Patidar did not get his timing, plays too early. 52/323 lovely delivery bit wider and on a good length, Gaikwad pushes forward and gets the edge to the keeper. 64/462.1 whoooo.. It was short on off. Yash Dhull tries to upper cut over the third, gets decent wood but wasn't enough to the man at third. Arthara who was fine third had to run to his right to snaffle - probably a match winning catch. Heated argument between the two Yashs there. 237/736.5 looks like pad first and the ump obliges. This was on a length on off from around the stump, pitched and spun in to hit the pad around the knee roll. Replay suggests it would;ve hit the off pole 133/662.2 One brings two! Good length on off, jagging back in. Kamboj with a tentative defence, feet nowhere, beaten comprehensively and bowled through the gate. This a big blow 237/865.1 Cometh the man, cometh the hour. Tossed up invitingly on middle and off, plenty of air. Akash couldn't resist, goes for an expansive cover drive, but the bat comes down as late as the Nagpur rain⊠and boom, timber 249/973.5 That should be it..! Gurnoor swings hard down the ground but only succeeds in skying it behind the stumps. Taide at first slip takes a comfortable catch and with that, Vidarbha seal their third Irani Cup 267/10Extras5 (lb 1, nb 1, w 3)TOTAL267 all out (73.5 Overs, RR: 3.61)Fall of wickets: 1-16 (Aryan Juyal, 3.6 ov), 2-24 (Abhimanyu Easwaran, 6.1 ov), 3-52 (Rajat Patidar, 16.5 ov), 4-64 (Ruturaj Gaikwad, 22.6 ov), 5-80 (Ishan Kishan, 25.5 ov), 6-133 (Saransh Jain, 36.5 ov), 7-237 (Yash Dhull, 62.1 ov), 8-237 (Anshul Kamboj, 62.2 ov), 9-249 (Akash Deep, 65.1 ov), 10-267 (Gurnoor Brar, 73.5 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ WD NB HS Dubey 27.5 5 73 4 2.62 0 0 AS Thakare 11 1 27 2 2.45 0 0 PR Rekhade 18 1 59 1 3.27 0 1 Yash Thakur 7 1 47 2 6.71 1 0 DG Nalkande 10 1 60 1 6 2 0
Match Details
Toss
Vidarbha , elected to bat first
Player Of The Match
Series result
Vidarbha won the 2025/26 Irani Cup
Season
Match days
1,2,3,4,5 October 2025 (5-day match)
TV Umpires
Match Referee
Close of Play
- Wed, 1 Oct - day 1 - Vidarbha 1st innings 280/5 (A Taide 118*, Yash Thakur 4*, 84 ov)
- Thu, 2 Oct - day 2 - Rest of India 1st innings 142/5 (RM Patidar 42*, MJ Suthar 1*, 53 ov)
- Fri, 3 Oct - day 3 - Vidarbha 2nd innings 96/2 (DR Shorey 24*, DV Malewar 16*, 36 ov)
- Sat, 4 Oct - day 4 - Rest of India 2nd innings 30/2 (Ishan Kishan 5*, RM Patidar 2*, 12 ov)
- Sun, 5 Oct - day 5 - Rest of India 2nd innings 267 (73.5 ov) - end of match
Match Coverage
All Match NewsDubey and Thakur seal Irani Cup title for Vidarbha
Yash Dhull's 92 and Manav Suthar's unbeaten 56 made life briefly uncomfortable for Vidarbha
Vidarbha's lower-order sets Rest of India a fighting 361-run target for Irani Cup glory
Thakare, Dubey then dismissed the Rest of India openers late in the day, leaving them with only eight wickets in hand
Vidarbha extend lead over Rest of India to 224
Rest of India lost a wicket off the first ball of the third day of the Irani Cup
Bowlers put Vidarbha on top despite Abhimanyu Easwaran half-century
Rajat Patidar, batting on 42, will be the key on the third day
Taide ton, Rathod 91 steady Vidarbha against Rest of India
Manav Suthar took three wickets and Akash Deep two on the opening day of the Irani Trophy


