Rahul Tripathi has been continuously rocking in the Indian Premier League and on the basis of this he also got a place in Team India but has not been able to make his debut yet.
Rahul Tripathi hit his third consecutive century in Vijay Hazare. (File pic)
India’s rising star Rahul Tripathi is in excellent form at the moment. His bat is on fire at the moment. Rahul Tripathi has hit a hat-trick of centuries in the ongoing Vijay Hazare Trophy, the country’s 50-over domestic tournament. This Maharashtra opener scored a century against Mizoram on Monday. This is his third consecutive century. On the basis of Rahul Tripathi’s century, the Maharashtra team scored a huge score of 341 runs losing four wickets in 50 overs. Mizoram’s team was able to score only 158 runs after losing eight wickets in response to this score and lost the match by 183 runs.
Rahul Tripathi played an inning of 107 runs in this match. Earlier, he was successful in scoring 111 runs against Services on 19th November. His first century in this edition of the tournament came against Mumbai on 17 November. In this match, Rahul played an unbeaten inning of 156 runs.
Hurt retired after scoring a century
Maharashtra batted first in this match. Pawan Shah got down to start the innings with Rahul Tripathi. Pawan got out after scoring 31 runs but Rahul Tripathi stood and scored a century. Rahul faced 99 balls in his innings of 107 runs and hit three sixes apart from eight fours. Here he retired hurt. Apart from him, team captain Ankit Bawane played an inning of 95 runs in 105 balls. Azim Kazi scored 67 runs in 39 balls and hit two sixes apart from seven fours.
waiting for debut
Rahul has recently been selected in India’s ODI team on Bangladesh tour. Now it has to be seen whether he gets a chance to debut or not. Rahul got a place in Team India on the tour of Zimbabwe this year as well but he could not make his debut. Earlier, he was also selected for the tour of Ireland under the captaincy of Hardik Pandya but could not make his debut here as well. This right-handed batsman is constantly shining in the IPL. Rahul Tripathi came into limelight while playing for Rising Pune Supergiants in IPL. After this he also played for Kolkata Knight Riders, Rajasthan Royals. After scoring a hat-trick of centuries, Rahul Tripathi has warned Bangladesh in a way.
Last year, Sunrisers Hyderabad joined him and this batsman played blistering innings. In the last IPL, Rahul Tripathi played 14 matches and scored 413 runs at an average of 37.55. Three half-centuries came out of his bat. So far in the IPL, Rahul Tripathi has played a total of 76 matches and scored 1798 runs at an average of 28.09, including 10 half-centuries.
Source: www.tv9hindi.com