22 batsmen scored centuries in 1 day. (Photo- PTI)

Vijay Hazare Trophy 2025-26: Indian domestic cricket's List A tournament Vijay Hazare Trophy 2025-26 started with a bang on 24th December. In the first round of matches, the batsmen wreaked havoc on the bowlers and a total of 22 century innings were seen. The biggest headlines of this historic day were the two legends of Team India, Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli, who returned to domestic ODI cricket after a long time and scored brilliant centuries. But an unknown player went ahead of these two giants.

Rohit-Virat started with a century

Rohit Sharma played a brilliant inning of 155 runs for Mumbai against Sikkim in Jaipur. Mumbai won easily due to his explosive batting. At the same time, Virat Kohli played a brilliant inning of 131 runs for Delhi against Andhra Pradesh in Bengaluru and led his team to victory. But the real storm of the day came in the matches of Bihar and Jharkhand. Bihar made a huge score of 574 runs against Arunachal Pradesh, creating a new world record in List A cricket. In this, 14 year old young sensation Vaibhav Suryavanshi scored a century in 36 balls and set the record of becoming the youngest List A century-scorer. Apart from him, Bihar captain Saqibul Ghani scored a century in 32 balls, which is the fastest century by an Indian in List A. Apart from these, Ayush Loharuka also played an inning of 116 runs.

On the other hand, Ishan Kishan of Jharkhand also did wonders and made the record of the second fastest Indian century by scoring a century in just 33 balls against Karnataka. The fast innings of these three broke the record of three fastest centuries in Indian List A cricket in a single day. In response to Ishan Kishan's innings, Devdutt Padikkal also played a memorable inning of 147 runs for the Karnataka team and also helped the team win the match.

This unknown player became number-1

But Swastik Samal of Odisha performed a different feat. This player scored a double century against Saurashtra. Swastik Samal played a historic inning of 212 balls off 169 balls, which included 21 fours and 8 sixes. On the basis of which Odisha scored 345 runs at the loss of 6 wickets in 50 overs. But Saurashtra team spoiled Swastik Samal's innings by chasing the target.

These batsmen also scored centuries

On the first day of Vijay Hazare Trophy 2025-26, Arpit Bhatewara, Ricky Bhui, Yash Dubey, Sammar Gajjar, Snehal Kauthankar, Shubham Khajuria, Kishan Lyngdoh, Aman Mokhade, Himanshu Rana, Ravi Singh, Biplab Samantre, Dhruv Shorey, Firozam Jotin and Vishnu Vinod also scored centuries.