2015–16 Vijay Hazare Trophy

The 2015–16 Vijay Hazare Trophy was the 23rd edition of the Vijay Hazare Trophy, an annual List A cricket tournament in India. It was held between 10 and 28 December 2015.^[1] The final was contested by Delhi and Gujarat, only the second time they had played each other in a one-day match.^[2] Gujarat won the final by 139 runs to claim their first Vijay Hazare title.^[3] They advanced to play in the 2015–16 Deodhar Trophy.^[4]

2015–16 Vijay Hazare Trophy

Dates	10 December 2015 – 28 December 2015
Administrator(s)	BCCI
Cricket format	List A cricket
Tournament format(s)	Round robin, then knockout
Champions	Gujarat (1st title)
Runners-up	Delhi
Participants	27
Most runs	Mandeep Singh (Punjab) (394)
Most wickets	Jasprit Bumrah (Gujarat) (21)
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Venues

Ground	Capacity
M. Chinnaswamy Stadium	35,000
KSCA Cricket Ground	N/A
KSCA Cricket (2) Ground	N/A
Feroz Shah Kotla Ground	42,000
Palam A Stadium	N/A
Palam B Stadium	N/A
Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium	28,000
Madhavrao Scindia Cricket Ground	15,000

Teams

Teams are divided into four groups as follows^[5]

Group A	Group B	Group C	Group D
Assam	Gujarat	Andhra	Bengal
Hyderabad (H)	Haryana	Baroda	Goa
Mumbai	Jammu & Kashmir	Delhi (H)	Himachal Pradesh
Punjab	Jharkhand	Maharashtra	Madhya Pradesh
Rajasthan	Karnataka (H)	Odisha	Saurashtra (H)
Services	Kerala	Tripura	Uttar Pradesh
Tamil Nadu	Railways	Vidarbha

• Note: H – Host

Fixtures

Group A

Main article: 2015–16 Vijay Hazare Trophy Group A

Rank	Team[6]	Pld	W	L	T	NR	Pts	NRR
1	Tamil Nadu	6	5	1	0	0	20	+1.254
2	Punjab	6	5	1	0	0	20	+0.349
3	Mumbai	6	4	2	0	0	16	+0.866
4	Services	6	3	3	0	0	12	-0.321
5	Rajasthan	6	3	3	0	0	12	-0.772
6	Hyderabad	6	1	5	0	0	4	-0.454
7	Assam	6	0	6	0	0	0	-0.807

•   Top two teams advanced to knockout stage

Group B

Main article: 2015–16 Vijay Hazare Trophy Group B

Rank	Team[6]	Pld	W	L	T	NR	Pts	NRR
1	Jharkhand	6	5	1	0	0	20	+0.860
2	Gujarat	6	5	1	0	0	20	+0.540
3	Karnataka	6	4	2	0	0	16	+1.465
4	Railways	6	3	3	0	0	12	-0.083
5	Haryana	6	2	4	0	0	8	-0.328
6	Kerala	6	2	4	0	0	8	-0.472
7	J&K	6	0	6	0	0	0	-1.933

•   Top two teams advanced to knockout stage

Group C

Main article: 2015–16 Vijay Hazare Trophy Group C

Rank	Team[6]	Pld	W	L	T	NR	Pts	NRR
1	Vidarbha	6	5	1	0	0	20	+1.209
2	Delhi	6	5	1	0	0	20	+0.860
3	Baroda	6	4	2	0	0	16	+1.114
4	Maharashtra	6	3	3	0	0	12	+0.465
5	Andhra	6	2	4	0	0	8	-0.844
6	Odisha	6	1	5	0	0	4	-0.680
7	Assam	6	1	5	0	0	4	-2.407

•   Top two teams advanced to knockout stage

Group D

Main article: 2015–16 Vijay Hazare Trophy Group D

Rank	Team[6]	Pld	W	L	T	NR	Pts	NRR
1	HP	5	4	1	0	0	16	+1.805
2	UP	5	4	1	0	0	16	+0.335
3	Saurashtra	5	3	2	0	0	12	+0.373
4	MP	5	3	2	0	0	12	+0.305
5	Bengal	5	1	4	0	0	4	-0.417
6	Goa	5	0	5	0	0	0	-1.851

•   Top two teams advanced to knockout stage

Knockout stage

Of the 27 participants, the following 8 teams qualified for the knockout stage:

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Final

D1

Himachal Pradesh

266/5 (49.2 ov)

A2

Punjab

263/8 (50 ov)

D1

Himachal Pradesh

200/9 (50 ov)

C2

Delhi

201/4 (41.1 ov)

B1

Jharkhand

126 (38 ov)

C2

Delhi

225 (50 ov)

C2

Delhi

134 (32.3 ov)

B2

Gujarat

273 (50 overs)

A1

Tamil Nadu

169/9 (41.3 ov)

D2

Uttar Pradesh

168 (48.2 ov)

B2

Gujarat

248/8 (50 ov)

A1

Tamil Nadu

217 (47.3 ov)

C1

Vidarbha

195 (48 ov)

B2

Gujarat

198/8 (48.1 ov)

Quarterfinals

23 December 2015 Scorecard

Punjab 263/8 (50 overs)	v	Himachal Pradesh 266/5 (49.2 overs)
Mandeep Singh 119 (145) Pankaj Jaiswal 3/50 (10 overs)		Robin Bist 109* (135) Siddarth Kaul 3/42 (8.2 overs)

Himachal Pradesh won by 5 wickets KSCA Cricket Ground, Alur Umpires: Nitin Menon and C. K. Nandan Player of the match: Robin Bist (Himachal Pradesh)

• Himachal Pradesh won the toss and elected to field.

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23 December 2015 Scorecard

Delhi 225 (50 overs)	v	Jharkhand 126 (38 overs)
Nitish Rana 44 (76) Rahul Shukla 3/60 (10 overs)		MS Dhoni 70* (108) Suboth Bhati 4/21 (10 overs)

Delhi won by 99 runs M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore Umpires: Krishnamachari Bharatan and Anil Dandekar Player of the match: Pawan Negi (Delhi)

• Jharkhand won the toss and elected to field.
• Rishabh Pant (Delhi) made his List A debut.

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24 December 2015 Scorecard

Uttar Pradesh 168 (48.2 overs)	v	Tamil Nadu 169/9 (41.3 overs)
Rinku Singh 60 (97) Lakshmipathy Balaji 3/32 (8.2 overs)		Baba Indrajith 48 (78) Bhuvneshwar Kumar 3/25 (9 overs)

Tamil Nadu won by 1 wicket M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore Umpires: Nitin Menon and C. K. Nandan Player of the match: Rajagopal Sathish (Tamil Nadu)

• Uttar Pradesh won the toss and elected to bat.

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24 December 2015 Scorecard

Vidarbha 195 (48 overs)	v	Gujarat 198/8 (48.1 overs)
Faiz Fazal 52 (66) Jasprit Bumrah 4/38 (9 overs)		Parthiv Patel 57 (58) Akshay Wakhare 3/30 (10 overs)

Gujarat won by 2 wickets KSCA Cricket Ground, Alur Umpires: Krishnamachari Bharatan and Nand Kishore Player of the match: Axar Patel (Gujarat)

• Vidarbha won the toss and elected to bat.

Semifinals

26 December 2015 Scorecard

Himachal Pradesh 200/9 (50 overs)	v	Delhi 201/4 (41.1 overs)
Bipul Sharma 51 (45) Nitish Rana 2/16 (4 overs)		Unmukt Chand 80* (86) Nikhil Gangta 1/14 (3 overs)

Delhi won by 6 wickets M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore Umpires: C. K. Nandan and Nand Kishore Player of the match: Unmukt Chand (Delhi)

• Delhi won the toss and elected to field.
• Mayank Dagar (Himachal Pradesh) made his List A debut.

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26 December 2015 Scorecard

Gujarat 248/8 (50 overs)	v	Tamil Nadu 217 (47.3 overs)
Chirag Gandhi 71 (82) Ravichandran Ashwin 3/51 (10 overs)		Abhinav Mukund 104* (142) Axar Patel 6/43 (10 overs)

Gujarat won by 31 runs KSCA Cricket Ground, Alur Umpires: Anil Dandekar and Nitin Menon Player of the match: Axar Patel (Gujarat)

• Tamil Nadu won the toss and elected to field.

Final

28 December 2015 Scorecard

Gujarat 273 (50 overs)	v	Delhi 134 (32.3 overs)
Parthiv Patel 105 (119) Pawan Negi 2/36 (6 overs)		Pawan Negi 57 (47) Jasprit Bumrah 5/28 (9.3 overs)

Gujarat won by 139 runs M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore Umpires: Krishnamachari Bharatan and Nitin Menon Player of the match: Parthiv Patel and RP Singh (both Gujarat)

• Delhi won the toss and elected to field.
• Karan Patel (Gujarat) made his List A debut.