The ongoing edition of the Vijay Hazare Trophy tournament saw a crazy one-sided contest between Tamil Nadu and Arunachal Pradesh. During the game, Tamil Nadu became the first team to score 500+ runs in the 50-over format.
Tamil Nadu cricket team stunned the cricket fraternity by posting a humongous total against Arunachal Pradesh. The TN openers namely Sai Sudharsan and N Jagadeesan tore the bowlers apart by playing a fearless brand of cricket.
Both the batsmen showcased a lot of intent by scoring sixes and fours at will. The openers added 416 runs for the opening wicket before Techi Doria dismissed Sai Sudharsan for 154 runs.
Aakash Chopra reacts to Tamil Nadu’s humongous win over Arunachal Pradesh
Sudharsan constructed his innings with the help of 19 boundaries and 2 maximums at a strike-rate of 150.98. On the other hand, N Nagadeesan was the pick of the batters for Tamil Nadu as he batted extremely well.
He went on to score a stupendous 277 off just 141 balls where he hit a flurry of 25 boundaries and 15 sixes to his name, at a strike-rate of 196.45. On the other hand, Arunachal Pradesh hardly showed intent in the chase.
They were bowled out for a mere 71 and thus Tamil Nadu scripted a biggest win in List-A cricket. Tamil Nadu cricket team won the game by an unbelievable margin of 435 runs.
After the game, Aakash Chopra took to his Twitter handle and wrote that it couldn’t be correct seeing a game like this. He further added that it appears like a national team playing against a Village Team.
The former Indian cricketer further added that there is nothing against the performers because it’s not their fault if their opponents are weak. He further added, “But what purpose does it serve to have this sorta contest?”
Arunachal Pradesh Playing XI
Neelam Obi, Madan Paul, Techi Doria, Rohan Sharma, Kamsha Yangfo (c & wk), Techi Neri, Limar Dabi, Chetan Anand, Yab Niya Niia, Nabam Abo, Mapu Yigam
Tamil Nadu Playing XI
Sai Sudharsan, N Jagadeesan (wk), Baba Aparajith, Baba Indrajith (c), Jagatheesan Kousik, Shahrukh Khan, Sonu Yadav, Ravisrinivasan Sai Kishore, M Mohammed, R Silambarasan, Manimaran Siddharth
Twitter reactions:-
FYI Assam this season beat Rajasthan, Karnataka and today beat Vidarbha… Time you update yourself.. Teams will only get better by playing against the big teams.. And if he hold your statement as right, then we need not have associate teams playing the WC as well..
— Abhishek Palav (@Abhi3367) November 21, 2022
Next time dont praise batsmen in commentary box when they score runs against zimbawe, afghanistan or any other associate team.
— HESOYAM (@vneeeet) November 21, 2022
Zimbabwe & Afghanistan both are test playing nations
— Sohaib attari (@Battrickpateman) November 21, 2022
Didn't see the Spark in Youngsters
-Dhoni pic.twitter.com/ZgcNTHT7La
— Harry Tweets (@HarryMAHEY2) November 21, 2022
By telling this you are degrading Arunachal Pradesh cricketers.. let cricket be cricket
— mohan (@Gundalakeesi) November 21, 2022
He's not he's saying there's literally no competition in terms of the skillset of the two teams.
— Muhammad Muzammil (@M_u_z_i_21) November 21, 2022
Same you: If this happens to Ind KL back to form Ind is unbeatable wherever they play
Every Associate Nation has beaten big teams this wc and they are putting a fight
They will get better only when they play
Stop calling these village teams pic.twitter.com/CdGF5wxHRW
— Raghul (@Im_Raghul15) November 21, 2022
You are completely wrong in this. U will nly develop whn u play against stronger opponents. Definitely team would have learnt a lot from TN.
Don't call thm a Village team bro. More than a loss your tweet nly will hurt thm.— Dr. J. Dinesh Shankar 🦁 (@DrJDineshShank1) November 21, 2022
How about acknowledge the fact the TN players were damn good ? Even in school cricket not easy to score 500 in 50 overs
— Arun B (@realarun82) November 21, 2022
Not a village team sir it is state team giving there best
We should appreciate that cricket has rich north eastern corner of the country
hope we will have finest cricketer from North eastern region soon wearing blue joursey…..!!!— Saurabh Rathod (@SaurabhNPR) November 21, 2022
