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khelja|17-10-2025
Rajat Patidar scored a century. (Photo- PTI)
Captain Rajat Patidar, who led Royal Challengers Bangalore to its first IPL title, caught everyone's attention by playing a brilliant innings.
Madhya Pradesh made a strong start against Punjab in the exciting match of the first round of Ranji Trophy 2025-26. In this match being played in Indore, Madhya Pradesh captain Rajat Patidar scored a century and took the team to a big score. The special thing was that Rajat Patidar scored a century while playing his first match as the new all-format captain of Madhya Pradesh.Rajat Patidar scored a century
On the second day of the match at Emerald Heights International School Ground, Indore, Rajat Patidar gave a tough class to the bowlers. In reply to Punjab's 232 runs, Madhya Pradesh had lost four wickets for 155 runs when Patidar took charge of the innings and scored a century.
He touched the 100-run mark in 160 balls and remained unbeaten on 107 runs in 185 balls till the end of the day's play. Rajat Patidar also hit 12 fours in this innings. Due to which Madhya Pradesh team scored 305 runs at the loss of 6 wickets.Let us tell you, Rajat Patidar's bat is doing very well in domestic cricket. He has crossed the 100-run mark 3 times in the last 8 innings and has also scored 3 half-centuries. At the same time, in the last Ranji season too, Patidar was the second highest run-scorer of Madhya Pradesh, when he scored 529 runs at an average of 48.09, which included one century and two half-centuries.
This time too he has been successful in starting the domestic season with a bang.Venkatesh Iyer also batted
In this match, Venkatesh Iyer also played an important innings for Madhya Pradesh team. Venkatesh Iyer faced 114 balls and scored 73 runs, which included 7 fours and 1 six. During this, he also made a partnership of 147 runs with Rajat Patidar, which took the team beyond 300 runs. Now on the third day of the game, Madhya Pradesh is going to focus on adding maximum runs.
