2017–18 Vijay Hazare Trophy


The 2017–18 Vijay Hazare Trophy was the 16th season of the Vijay Hazare Trophy, a List A cricket tournament in India. It was contested by the 28 domestic cricket teams of India. Tamil Nadu were the defending champions. In December 2017, the fixtures were brought forward to allow players to practice ahead of the 2018 Indian Premier League.
Following the conclusion of the group stages, Baroda and Karnataka from Group A, Maharashtra and Delhi from Group B, Andhra and Mumbai from Group C, and Hyderabad and Saurashtra from Group D had progressed to the knockout stage of the competition.
On the first day of quarter-final matches, Karnataka beat Hyderabad by 103 runs and Maharashtra beat Mumbai by 7 wickets to advance to the semi-finals. In the other two quarter-finals, Saurashtra beat Baroda by 3 wickets and Andhra beat Delhi by 6 wickets to progress. It was the first time that Andhra had reached the semi-finals of the Vijay Hazare Trophy.
In the first semi-final, Karnataka beat Maharashtra by 9 wickets to advance to the final. In the second semi-final, Saurashtra beat Andhra by 59 runs to progress. In the final, Karnataka beat Saurashtra by 41 runs to win the tournament. Karnataka's Mayank Agarwal scored 723 runs during the tournament and scored 2,141 runs across all formats, the highest total by any batsman in an Indian domestic season.

Teams

The teams were drawn in the following groups:
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Points table
Team
Baroda6510020+2.012
Karnataka6410118+1.489
Punjab6330012+0.473
Odisha6330012–0.224
Railways6330012–0.444
Haryana6230110–0.426
Assam606000–2.401

Group B

Points table
Team
Maharashtra6410118+0.878
Delhi6420016+0.727
Kerala6321014+0.288
Himachal Pradesh6320114–0.108
Uttar Pradesh6330012–0.563
Bengal6231010+0.007
Tripura606000–1.127

Group C

Points table
Team
Andhra6600024+0.626
Mumbai6420016+0.324
Madhya Pradesh6330012+0.112
Goa6330012–0.411
Tamil Nadu624008+0.468
Rajasthan624008–0.791
Gujarat615004–0.321

Group D

Points table
Team
Hyderabad6510020+0.646
Saurashtra6420016+1.017
Vidarbha6420016+0.718
Chhattisgarh6420016–0.103
Jharkhand624008+0.325
Jammu & Kashmir624008–1.040
Services606000–1.508

Knockout stage

Quarter-finals

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Semi-finals

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Final