Krunal Pandya scored a memorable century. (Photo- PTI)
Krunal Pandya In Vijay Hazare Trophy 2025-26: Baroda captain and Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) all-rounder Krunal Pandya is performing amazingly in the Vijay Hazare Trophy 2025-26. In the domestic ODI tournament, he has consistently played explosive innings with the bat, which is a big good news for his team before IPL 2026. Krunal Pandya has attracted everyone’s attention by playing his third consecutive big innings. Baroda team faced Hyderabad in the fourth round of the tournament. In this match, he scored a stormy century with his bat.
Krunal Pandya scored a memorable century
In this match played at Rajkot ground, Krunal Pandya played an explosive inning of 109 unbeaten runs on just 63 balls against Hyderabad. In this fast-paced century, he hit brilliant shots in every corner of the field and played an important role in taking Baroda to a huge score of 417 runs. In this match, Baroda’s top order laid a strong foundation, but Krunal came and accelerated the pace.
Krunal Pandya hit 18 fours and 1 six during his innings. He scored these runs at a strike rate of 173.03, which is very rare in List A cricket. With this, Krunal Pandya achieved the feat of scoring a century for the third time in his List A career. Earlier, he had played a useful inning of 57 runs in 63 balls against Bengal. After this, 82 runs were scored in 77 balls against Uttar Pradesh also. That means Krunal Pandya has scored 248 runs in the last 3 innings of Vijay Hazare Trophy 2025-26. Which includes 34 fours and 4 sixes. At the same time, he could score only 2 runs in the opening match of the tournament. During this period, he has also done wonders in bowling.
3 batsmen played century innings
Apart from Krunal Pandya, two more batsmen scored centuries against Hyderabad. Before Krunal Pandya, Nitya Pandya and Amit Pasi’s bat thundered. There was a partnership of 230 runs between the two players for the first wicket. During this, Amit Pasi scored 127 runs in 93 balls. At the same time, Nitya Pandya contributed 122 runs in 100 balls, due to which Baroda team managed to reach a big score.