The Mumbai team had to face a crushing defeat in the Vijay Hazare Trophy 2024-25. Karnataka team defeated Mumbai in the match played at B ground of Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. This match between the two teams was very high scoring and Mumbai team could not defend the target even after scoring 382 runs. The hero of Karnataka's victory was Krishnan Srijit, who has been bought by the Mumbai team for IPL 2025. Krishnan Srijit is a wicketkeeper batsman.
In this match played between the two teams, Karnataka team won the toss and decided to bowl first. But very good batting was seen from Mumbai side. Shreyas Iyer played a captaincy inning of 114 not out off 55 balls. At the same time, Shivam Dubey scored unbeaten 63 runs on 36 balls, due to which Mumbai team managed to score 382 runs at the loss of 4 wickets in 50 overs. But this total proved to be small in front of Karnataka's explosive batting.
While chasing the target, Karnataka captain Mayank Agarwal gave a good start to the team. He played an innings of 47 runs in 48 balls. At the same time, KV Anish also contributed 82 runs. After this, a match winning inning was seen between Krishnan Srijit and Praveen Dubey. Praveen Dubey scored unbeaten 65 runs in 50 balls. On the other hand, Krishnan Srijit played an unbeaten inning of 150 runs in 101 balls. This innings of Krishnan Srijit included 20 fours and 4 sixes. Due to this strong innings of Sreejit, Karnataka achieved this target in 46.2 at the loss of 3 wickets.
28 year old Krishnan Srijit has not played much domestic cricket yet. This was only his third List A match. Apart from this, he has played only 1 first class match so far. He came into limelight during the mega auction of IPL 2025. Mumbai team has made him a part of their team for 30 years. Krishnan Srijit scores runs at a strike rate of 146.64 in T20 cricket.
