
Sanjeev Kumar
khelja|01-01-2026
Rinku Singh's amazing work continues (Photo: PTI)
Rinku Singh, Vijay Hazare Trophy: Rinku Singh's magic is not stopping in Vijay Hazare Trophy. With the start of the tournament, their success also started becoming visible. Now the biggest miracle that Rinku Singh has done is that he has become number 1 among the captains of 38 teams playing in Vijay Hazare Trophy. Now you will say how? So Rinku Singh has proved his mettle by performing for his team Uttar Pradesh in the tournament and making it win. Rinku Singh contributed to the UP team sometimes as a batsman and sometimes as a finisher, which has made him captain number 1.
The 38 teams playing in the Vijay Hazare Trophy have been divided into four elite groups and one plate group. Elite group is A, B, C, D. Rinku Singh's team UP is part of Group B, in which it has teams from Vidarbha, Bengal, Baroda, Jammu and Kashmir, Assam, Hyderabad (India) and Chandigarh. Rinku Singh is not only the best among the captains of all the teams included in this group, apart from him, even after including all the captains of other groups, no captain has played like him till now.
In the current season of Vijay Hazare Trophy, under the captaincy of Rinku Singh, the UP team has won all the 4 matches played so far. UP is the only team in its group, which has not lost a single match. Now let us know what has been the contribution of Rinku Singh in this victory of UP.
Rinku Singh has scored 273 runs in 4 innings of 4 matches at an average of 136.50, which included 1 century and 2 half-centuries. During this, he hit 11 sixes and 23 fours. Not only this, he also remained not out in two innings. In this, one was his century innings and the other was the one in which he returned unbeaten after winning the match. Rinku Singh played this inning against Assam on 31 December, in which he scored 37 unbeaten runs.
Now after such performance in Vijay Hazare Trophy, let us know how and in which respect Rinku Singh is number 1 among 38 captains. He is the captain who has scored the most runs so far among 38 captains. Apart from this, his batting average is by far the best compared to other captains. It is this strength of Rinku Singh that is writing the success story of UP in the tournament. They say, like the captain, like the team.




