The organization of Vijay Hazare Trophy 2025-26 has started from Wednesday. On the first day, Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma scored record centuries while Odisha’s Swastik Samal scored a double century. Bihar scored 574 runs against Arunachal Pradesh, in which many records were made. For Bihar, 3 batsmen (Vaibhav Suryavanshi, Saqibul Ghani, Ayush Anand) scored centuries. See 10 big records made on the first day of the tournament.
1. Rohit Sharma’s special record
Mumbai player Rohit Sharma scored 155 runs against Sikkim. In this innings played in 94 balls, he hit 9 sixes and 18 fours. Rohit has become the second oldest player to score a century in Vijay Hazare Trophy. Rohit is currently 38 years 238 days old. In this matter, ahead of him is Anustup Majumdar of Bengal, who scored a century after the age of 39.
2. Virat Kohli made a record
Delhi batsman Virat Kohli played an inning of 131 runs in 101 balls against Andhra, although he made a big record by scoring only 1 run. He has become the fastest batsman to complete 16000 runs in men’s List A cricket. Kohli touched this figure in 330 innings, Sachin Tendulkar had completed 16000 runs in List A in 391 innings.
3. Swastika Samal created history
Today, Swastik Samal of Odisha played the biggest individual innings in Vijay Hazare Trophy, he scored a double century against Saurashtra. He scored 212 runs in 169 balls, becoming the first batsman to score a double century for Odisha in List A cricket. However, despite this historic innings, his team lost the match.
4. Second biggest win
Bihar registered a big win of 397 runs against Arunachal Pradesh. This is the second biggest win on the basis of runs in List A cricket. Tamil Nadu is at number one, they also won against Arunachal Pradesh in 2022-23 by a huge margin of 435 runs.
5. Saqibul Ghani’s fastest century
Bihar captain Saqibul Ghani completed his century in 32 balls, the fastest century by an Indian in men’s List A cricket. He broke the record of Anmolpreet Singh, who had scored a century in 35 balls against Arunachal Pradesh in 2024.
6. This happened for the first time in history
This is the first time in the history of Vijay Hazare Trophy, when 3 batsmen have scored centuries in an innings. Vaibhav Suryavanshi, captain Saqibul Ghani and Ayush Anand scored centuries for Bihar team. All three had completed their respective centuries in less than 50 balls, this is also a record.
7. The greatest innings
Bihar cricket team scored 574 runs against Arunachal Pradesh, this is the highest score in men’s List A cricket. Apart from this, more than 500 runs have been scored only once, in 2022-23 Tamil Nadu had scored 506 runs.
8. Vaibhav Suryavanshi made a record
Vaibhav Suryavanshi missed his double century, he scored 190 runs in just 84 balls. Vaibhav had completed 150 runs in 59 balls, he has become the batsman to score 150 runs in the fewest balls in List A cricket.
9. Bengal’s biggest victory
Batting first, Vidarbha had scored 382 runs. Chasing this big target, Shahbaz Ahmed (71), Abhimanyu Easwaran (71), Sudeep Kumar (68) played good innings and played an important role in the team’s victory. Chasing the target of 383, Bengal won by 3 wickets, this is Bengal’s most successful run chase in ODI cricket.
10. Most ‘sixes’ in an innings
A total of 38 sixes were hit in the innings of 574 runs of Bihar cricket team, which is the highest number of sixes in an innings in the history of Vijay Hazare Trophy. Vaibhav Suryavanshi hit 15 sixes, Saqibul Ghani hit 12 sixes.
