Cricket fans got to see a big upset in the Elite Group C match of Vijay Hazare Trophy 2025-26 played at Jaipuria Vidyalaya Ground in Jaipur. Punjab surprised everyone by defeating a strong team like Mumbai. Mumbai, which is considered a great team of domestic cricket, collapsed miserably while chasing a small target and lost the match even after coming close to victory. Punjab won this match by a margin of just 1 run.
At the beginning of the match, Mumbai captain Shreyas Iyer won the toss and decided to bowl first. At the same time, Punjab team, batting first, could play only 45.1 overs and were all out after scoring 216 runs. During this, Ramandeep Singh scored the maximum 72 runs and Anmolpreet Singh contributed 57 runs. Apart from these, no batsman could touch the 20 run mark. The main reason for which was Mumbai's bowling, Musheer Khan took maximum 3 wickets. Apart from them, Omkar Tarmale, Shivam Dubey and Shashank Attarde made 2-2 batsmen their victims. Sairaj Patil also took 1 wicket in his name.
But the Mumbai team could not achieve this small target. There was fast batting from Mumbai side, due to which they touched the mark of 200 runs even before 25 overs, but after this Punjab made a strong comeback and all out Mumbai team for 215 runs. That means that victory was just 1 run away.
Mumbai had a good start while chasing the target. Angkrish Raghuvanshi and Musheer Khan added 57 runs for the first wicket. After this, Sarfaraz Khan made Punjab far behind in the match by playing an inning of 62 runs in 20 balls. After this, Shreyas Iyer also took the team closer to victory by playing an inning of 45 runs. At one time, Mumbai had scored 191 runs at the loss of 4 wickets and was just 25 runs away from victory. But Punjab bowlers did not give up and took the last 6 wickets of Mumbai in just 24 runs. During this, Gurnoor Brar took maximum 4 wickets. Mayank Markande also sent 4 batsmen to the pavilion. Whereas, Harpreet Brar and Harnoor Singh got 1 success each.
