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Follow UsFollowing an impressive Ranji Trophy 2023-24, Ricky Bhui has started the new domestic season with a bang. The batter has finished Duleep Trophy 2024 as the highest run-getter with 359 runs at 71.80, which includes two centuries and a fifty in six innings.
Bhui had a stunning Ranji Trophy season last time around, too, where he smashed 902 runs at 75.16, which saw him hit four tons in 13 innings for Andhra Pradesh. Riding on Bhui's impressive show, Andhra reached the Ranji Trophy quarter-final, before losing to Madhya Pradesh by a heartbreaking 4-run margin.
In the final game of the Duleep Trophy against India B, the India D batter hit 56 and followed that up with an unbeaten 119 in the second innings to help his side to a comfortable 257-run victory in Anantapur. His previous scores in the tournament read 23 & 113 against India A, and before that, he registered 4 & 44 against India C.
It was India A, who eventually went on to win the four-team event, as they were the only team to win two games outright. They started off the competition with a slender 76-run loss against India B, but then went on to beat India D by 186 runs and in the latest round, the Mayank Agarwal-led side pipped India C by 132 runs.
Speaking of the bowlers, pacer Anshul Kamboj of India C finished as the leading wicket-taker in the tournament with 16 wickets at 17.12 in five innings, including a career-best of 8/69 against India B. This was also the best bowling figures for a pacer in the Duleep Trophy after Debasis Mohanty, who picked up all 10 wickets against South Zone in Agartala in 2001.
India internationals Mukesh Kumar (15), Navdeep Saini (14) and Arshdeep Singh (13) were among the top five wicket-takers in the tournament.
The players will now turn their attention to India's premier first-class tournament, the Ranji Trophy, which will get underway from October 11 onwards.
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