Bengal battle out against Vidarbha in Elite, Group B fixture of the 2025-26 Vijay Hazare Trophy on Wednesday, 24th December. The venue for this match is Sanosara Cricket Ground A, Rajkot and the scheduled start time is 9:00 AM IST. Ahead of this exciting clash check out our Bengal vs Vidarbha prediction, props, stats, pitch report, head to head record, squads and match winner prediction.
Bengal vs Vidarbha Props
Stats
- Sudip Kumar Gharami scored 461 runs in the last 10 List A matches.
- Dhruv Shorey scored 494 runs in the 2024/25 season for Vidarbha.
- Sayan Ghosh picked up 15 wickets in 7 matches for Bengal last season.
- Teams bowling first won 100% of the matches played at Sanosara Cricket Ground.
Sanosara Cricket Ground A, Rajkot Pitch Report
The pitch at Sanosara Cricket Ground A offers a balanced track that favours both the batters and bowlers. The venue has hosted only one match in the Vijay Hazare Trophy so far, where the first innings score was 173 runs, which was easily chased down.
Bengal vs Vidarbha Squads
Bengal Squad: Sudip Kumar Gharami, Abhimanyu Easwaran(c), Anustup Majumdar, Shahbaz Ahmed, Sumanta Gupta(w), Sayan Ghosh, Vishal Sunil Bhati, Aamir Gani, Mukesh Kumar, Mohammed Shami, Akash Deep, Karan Lal, Ravi Kumar, Ankit Mishra, Chandrahas Dash, Sumit Nag.
Vidarbha Squad: Atharva Taide, Aman Mokhade, Parth Rekhade, Dhruv Shorey, Ravikumar Samarth, Harsh Dubey(c), Yash Rathod, Akshay Wadkar(w), Darshan Nalkande, Nachiket Bhute, Ganesh Bhosle, Praful Hinge, Yash Thakur, Shubham Dubey, Dipesh Parwani, Yash Kadam, Shivam Deshmukh
Bengal vs Vidarbha Match Winner Prediction
Bengal enter this contest as the favourites to win. Led by Abhimanyu Easwaran, Bengal will be hoping to turn things around this season after a disappointing quarterfinal loss against Haryana the last time around.
Vidarbha were agonisingly short of lifting the trophy against Karnataka where they lost by 36 runs in the finals. This time around without their talisman of last season Karun Nair who is back to his home team Karnataka has left a huge hole in the top order of this side. While they do have a strong bowling unit, Vidarbha will have a quite a few gaps to fill in the batting order and they are a bit under par for this fixture.
Our Prediction: We are backing Bengal to Win!
