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Vijay Hazare Trophy: From Prithvi Shaw, Devdutt Padikkal to Shivam Sharma, a look at top performers
Given the absence of competitive cricket, IPL teams would have an opportunity to evaluate the form of their players. Mumbai s Prithvi Shaw in action during the 2020- 21 Vijay Hazare Trophy | Twitter @BCCIdomestic
Mumbai won the 2021 Vijay Hazare Trophy after an impressive six-wicket victory over Uttar Pradesh in the final.
But the focus, for most observers, was not so much on who won the tournament. Rather, it was on the new faces that make themselves known or even perhaps old stars putting their hand up to show that they are no longer out of form and are new options that the selectors need to keep an eye out.
He was always special: Vijay Dahiya, Pradeep Sangwan on Ishant Sharma’s journey to 100 Tests
Ishant’s first 79 Test matches yielded 226 wickets and the last 20 have fetched him 76 wickets. AFP
On the sidelines of a Ranji Trophy match in 2019, Ishant Sharma had called himself “the last flicker in a lamp” while politely making his reluctance known to three journalists who had approached him for an interaction.
Ishant had played 96 Tests at that time and nearly 14 months later, during which time he missed five Tests due to an injury, one of Indian cricket’s most successful fast bowlers is still going strong. He is on course to become only the second Indian pacer, after the great Kapil Dev, to play in 100 Tests.