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Sports Desk, New Delhi. Mumbai and Karnataka will face each other in the quarter-finals of Vijay Hazare Trophy on Monday. Then Sarfaraz Khan and Devdutt Padikkal will be expected to maintain their excellent form. The second quarter-final match between Uttar Pradesh and Saurashtra will be played at the Center of Excellence on Monday itself.
Padikkal scored the most runs
Karnataka's only defeat in the group stage came in its last league match on 8 January. Padikkal is the leading run-scorer in the tournament with 640 runs including four centuries and one half-century in seven innings. If he continues to score runs like this, it will be difficult for the selectors to ignore him. After the T20 tournament ends in a few months, his eyes will be on the 2027 ODI World Cup.
scored the fastest fifty
Sarfaraz is also attracting the attention of selectors by maintaining his excellent T20 form in ODI cricket as well. In the defeat in the last match of the league against Punjab, Sarfaraz scored the fastest half-century by an Indian in men's List A cricket.
Although Mumbai lost the match, Sarfaraz proved himself. If Suryakumar Yadav plays in the quarter-finals, he will hope to score some runs before the T20 series against New Zealand. He scored 15 and 24 runs in the two league matches played for Mumbai.
UP is riding on the winning chariot
In the second quarterfinal match between Saurashtra and Uttar Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh is considered a strong contender. They have remained undefeated in the league stage and are the only team to do so in all four groups. However, they will have to play without Dhruv Jurel. Jurel has joined the Indian ODI team due to Rishabh Pant's injury.
Jurel scored 558 runs in seven innings in the league stage and was almost unstoppable. Saurashtra made it to the last eight by winning their last four matches after losing two of their first three matches. Their batsmen seem to be at their peak at the right time, fast bowler Chetan Sakariya is also in good form.
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