Gujarat will face Uttar Pradesh in the semi-final of Vijay Hazare Trophy 2020/21, at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in New Delhi. Gujarat have won all six matches – and that includes a 117-run win over Andhra in the quarter-final. Uttar Pradesh, on the other hand, had lost once, to Kerala. Ahead of the match, here is a statistical preview.
0 List A matches between Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh until now. In fact, the teams have met only seven times across formats (five times in Ranji Trophy, twice in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy).
2 appearances for Uttar Pradesh in the Vijay Hazare Trophy final, in 2004/05 and 2005/06. In their first attempt, they were joint champions with Tamil Nadu after the final was tied. They lost to Railways next year.
2 appearances for Gujarat in the Vijay Hazare Trophy final. They lost to Jharkhand in 2010/11 but beat Delhi in 2015/16 to win the trophy.
2 dismissals needed by Dhruv Rawal (11 catches for Gujarat) to go past Smit Patel (11 catches, 1 stumping for Baroda) and lead the table for most victims in this edition.
19 wickets for Arzan Nagwaswalla of Gujarat and Shivam Sharma of Uttar Pradesh. They are the leading wicket-takers of this edition.
335 runs for Het Patel, Gujarat’s leading run-scorer. However, he is only joint 14th on the runs chart, and his tally is not even half of Devdutt Padikkal of Karnataka (673). Akshdeep Nath’s 261 runs are the most for Uttar Pradesh but the 38th in the tournament.