Vijay Hazare Trophy How Many Overs, How many Teams and All that you Need to Know ahead of 2019-20 season

Dixit Bhargav | 23/09/2019
Vijay Hazare Trophy How Many Overs, How many Teams and All that you Need to Know ahead of 2019-20 season

Vijay Hazare Trophy How Many Overs: India’s premier 50-over domestic competition is all set to begin tomorrow across four cities.

The imminent season of the Vijay Hazare Trophy will begin tomorrow across multiple venues in Bengaluru, Jaipur, Baroda and Dehradun. India’s premier 50-over competition will see as many as 38 teams contest in four groups. It is worth mentioning that Chandigarh has been added as the latest team.

Slated to begin on September 24, the league phase of the tournament will be played till October 16. The final of the tournament will be played on October 25 at an undisclosed venue.

Vijay Hazare Trophy How Many Overs

The tournament will give immense opportunities to plentiful regional players of the country. The 50-over format of the competition will also given these players enough time to put on display their skills among some of the best domestic players in the country.

Vijay Hazare Trophy 2019-20 teams:

Group A: Mumbai, Saurashtra, Andhra, Chhattisgarh, Hyderabad, Karnataka, Jharkhand, Goa, Kerala

Group B: Delhi, Vidarbha, Maharashtra, Himachal Pradesh, Baroda, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab

Group C: Gujarat, Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan, Jammu & Kashmir, Tripura, Madhya Pradesh, Railways, Bihar, Services

Group D: Assam, Manipur, Uttarakhand, Meghalaya, Puducherry, Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Mizoram, Nagaland, Chandigarh

Vijay Hazare Trophy 2019-20 Qualification criteria

Post the league phase, eight teams will get shortlisted to play the quarter-finals. Only the top team from Group D will qualify for the quarter-finals. As far as Group C is concerned, the top two teams will enter the next round.

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The situation isn’t that simple for the remaining five teams. A total of five teams will qualify from Group A and B combined. Out of the 18 teams, first five teams with the highest points will qualify for the quarter-finals.

Under the aforementioned rule, even if all the five teams getting qualified are from either of Group A and B, teams from the other group will have to no option than to exit from the tournament.

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Dixit Bhargav

Born and brought up in Pathankot, Dixit Bhargav is an engineering and sports management graduate who works as a Cricket Editor at The SportsRush. Having written more than 10,000 articles across more than five years at TSR, his first cricketing memory dates back to 2002 when former India captain Sourav Ganguly had waved his jersey at the historic Lord’s balcony. What followed for an 8-year-old was an instant adulation for both Ganguly and the sport. The optimist in him is waiting for the day when Punjab Kings will win their maiden Indian Premier League title. When not watching cricket, he is mostly found in a cinema hall watching a Punjabi movie.

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