astigbet Vijay Hazare Trophy 2024-25, Round 6, Group E Preview: Teams, Points Table, Fixtures - All You Need To Know

Indian cricketer Mohammed Shami. Photo: File Indian cricketer Mohammed Shami. Photo: File

Leaders Bengal take on struggling Bihar in the penultimate group stage match of the Vijay Hazare Trophy 2024-25 at Gymkhana Groundastigbet, Hyderabad on January 3, 2025. In other Group E matches on Friday, second-place Baroda face Madhya Pradesh while Tripura meet winless Kerala. (More Cricket News)

Bengal, Baroda, and Delhi registered wins in the fifth round to gain one position each, and as a result, Madhya Pradesh dropped to fourth. Tripura, Bihar, and Kerala remained where they were. Expect the positions to change again after the completion of penultimate round matches. Here's all you need to know about VHT 2024-25, Round 6 Group E matches.

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Vijay Hazare Trophy 2024-25 Group E Points Table

Sl. No.TeamPlayedWonLostTiedNRPts.NRR1Bengal43001140.7252Baroda43100120.763Delhi53200120.5054Madhya Pradesh42101101.6595Tripura513016-1.6246Bihar413004-0.9517Kerala403012-1.19

As things stand, Bengal are the clear favourites to seal the automatic quarter-final spot from the group. Unbeaten in four matches, they have two fixtures remaining, against Bihar and Madhya Pradesh.

Other teams vying for the Group E top spot are: Baroda, with three wins and one defeat in four matches, and Delhi, with three wins and two defeats in five, and Madhya Pradesh, who have won two, lost one and one no result.

Tripura, Bihar and Kerala are out of the knock-out qualification reckoning.

Vijay Hazare Trophy 2024-25 Format

38 teams in India's premier List A competition have been divided into five groups, of eight teams (A, B and C), and seven teams (D and E) each.

After the group stage, the top two teams from each group will progress to the knock-outs with the top five group winners automatically qualifying for the quarter-finals.

They will be joined by the best team among the second-ranked teams in the last eight. The other four second-ranked teams will play in the pre-quarterfinals with the winners completing the quarter-final line-up.

Vijay Hazare Trophy 2024-25, Round 6 Group E Fixtures

Baroda vs Madhya Pradesh at NexGen Cricket Ground, Hyderabad;

Bengal vs Bihar at Gymkhana Ground, Hyderabad;

Kerala vs Tripura at Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Hyderabad.

Delhi will play their final group match against Baroda on Sunday.

All three matches will start at 9:00 AM IST (local time).

Vijay Hazare Trophy 2024-25 Live Streaming And Telecast Details

The Vijay Hazare Trophy 2024-25 group stage matches will not be telecast on TV or streamed online. The knockout matches, however, will be streamed live and telecast on JioCinema and Sports18 channels, respectively.

The knockouts will begin on January 9, 2025, with preliminary quarter-finals. The final is scheduled for January 19. All knockout matches will be played in Vadodara.

Vijay Hazare Trophy 2024-25 Group E Squads

Baroda: Shashwat Rawat, Ninad Ashvinkumar Rathva, Krunal Pandya (c), Hardik Pandya, Vishnu Solanki (wk), Bhanu Pania, Shivalik Sharma, Raj Limbani, Mahesh Pithiya, Lukman Meriwala, Akash Maharaj Singh, Parth Kohli, Bhargav Bhatt, Atit Sheth, Babashafi Pathan, Jyotsnil Singh, Amit Passi, and Lakshit Toksiya.

Bengal: Abishek Porel (wk), Karan Lal, Sudip Kumar Gharami (c), Sudip Chatterjee, Anustup Majumdar, Kaushik Maity, Sumanta Gupta, Mukesh Kumar, Pradipta Pramanik, Sayan Ghosh, Suraj Sindhu Jaiswal, Sakshaim Chaudhary, Kanishk Seth, Subham Chatterjee, Mohammed Kaif, Shakir Habib Gandhi, Rohit Kumar, Ranjot Khaira, Vikas Singh, and Mohammed Shami.

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Bihar: Sakibul Gani (c), Vaibhav Suryavanshi, Baljeet Singh Binny (wk), Mangal Mahrour, Harsh Raj, Bipin Saurabh, Rishav Raj, Raghuvendra Pratap Singh, Himanshu Singh, Suraj Kashyap, Amod Yadav, Kumar Rajnish, Nawaz Khan, Danish Choudhary, Malay Raj, Piyush Singh, Kamlesh Kumar, Sachin Kumar, and Ankit Singh.

Delhi: Sarthak Ranjan, Hrithik Shokeen, Sanat Sangwan, Ayush Badoni (c), Himmat Singh, Anuj Rawat (wk), Sumit Mathur, Ayush Doseja, Akhil Chaudhary, Prince Yadav, Ishant Sharma, Yash Dhull, Vaibhav Kandpal, Navdeep Saini, Mayank Gusain, Tejasvi Dahiya, Priyansh Arya, Harsh Tyagi, and Jonty Sidhu.

Kerala: Rohan Kunnummal, Jalaj Saxena, Shoun Roger, Ahammed Imran, Aditya Sarwate, Sharafuddeen, Salman Nizar (c), Mohammed Azharuddeen (wk), Abdul Basith, Basil Thampi, Nedumankuzhy Basil, MD Nidheesh, Sijomon Joseph, Suresh Vishweshwar, Eden Apple Tom, Vaisakh Chandran, Krishna Prasad, Akhil Scaria, Maruthungal Ajinas, and Anand Krishnan.

Madhya Pradesh: Harsh Gawli (wk), Shubham Shyamsunder Sharma, Venkatesh Iyer, Harpreet Singh Bhatia, Rajat Patidar (c), Sagar Solanki, Kumar Kartikeya, Kulwant Khejroliya, Avesh Khan, Yash Dubey, Aryan Pandey, Subhranshu Senapati, Rahul Batham, Saransh Jain, and Himanshu Mantri.

Tripura: Bikramkumar Das, Jiwanjot Singh, Bishal Ghosh, Sridam Paul, Mandeep Singh (c), Manisankar Murasingh, Srinivas Sharath (wk), Ajay Sarkar, Bikramjit Debnath, Parvez Sultan, Abhijit K Sarkar, Samrat Sutradhar, Tejasvi Jaiswal, Babul Dey, Saruk Hossain, Sankar Paul, Dwaipayan Bhattacharjee, Arjun Kshitish Debnathastigbet, Rajat Dey, Saurabh Das, Chiranjit Paul, Kaushal Acharjee, and Rana Dutta.