NAGPUR: When Jitesh Sharma and Shubham Dubey joined hands, Vidarbha — 86 runs away from the target, with only 42 balls left — looked down and out against Uttarakhand. The two, though, tweaked the script of the match with their explosive batting to guide Vidarbha to victory, with 10 balls to spare, in their Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy (SMAT) opener on Monday.
Sharma scored the fastest fifty in SMAT by a Vidarbha batter as the team scored 145 in just 68 balls. Vidarbha scored at a run-rate of 12.79 in the rain-truncated T20 match at Punjab Cricket Stadium Stadium, Mullanpur.
