Karnataka vs Vidarbha, Final at Vadodara, Vijay Hazare Trophy, Jan 18 2025 - Match Result

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Mayank Agarwal lifts the trophy, they take the group photos and then Mayank walks to center of the pitch to take some more pictures along with his teammates.

Mayank Agarwal Feels amazing to have won this after a while, very honestly, we turned up and played well in crucial moments, our team was in a transition, for everyone to put up their hand to perform was remarkable, it was interesting period for Karnataka and get in the youngsters to perform. Game changing partnership between Smaran and Shrjith, Abhinav Manohar to finish in the end.

Player of the Series: Karun Nair

Player of the Match: R Smaran To take the game deep, me and Srijith talked about taking the game on, every over we were getting the boundary. Game plan was to get 5 to 6 runs per over and then we even got a boundary in each over. Stick to bat as deep as possible.

Karun Nair Huge thank you for everyone who supported us, all of us performed at different stages, the process we followed, the support staff. They (Karnataka) batted well, when we came out to bat, we batted decently but we lost wickets at regular intervals.

Karnataka win by 36 runs. Karnataka are unbeaten in the Finals, wins the 5th Vijay Hazare title. Excited Karnataka players, hugs and handshakes. 3 wickets each for Prasidh and Koushik. Vidarbha were in the chase with Shorey's 100 and then in the end some big hitting from Harsh Dubey.

Vishwesh Gaur: "We have seen Money Heist. I'm believing today Harsh Dubey will heist the VHT title." He almost did it.

Abhilash Shetty to bowl the penultimate over