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Vijay Hazare Trophy 2025-26: Swastik Samal’s historic double century

New DelhiOn the opening day of the Vijay Hazare Trophy, cricket fans got a chance to witness many interesting performances, On this day, along with the veteran players, young talents also left their mark, of Odisha Swastika Samal Created history for his team by playing a brilliant inning of 212 runs against Saurashtra.

Unique performance by the young batsman

Swastik Samal proved his batting prowess in this match and he scored a half-century in 53 balls and then completed his first List-A century in 104 balls. His innings ended on an individual score of 212, in which he hit 21 fours and 8 sixes. With this, Samal has become the first player for Odisha to score a double century in List-A cricket.

Records game in Vijay Hazare Trophy

Swastik Samal with this innings Yashasvi Jaiswal He became the fourth batsman to score the highest individual score in the Vijay Hazare Trophy by breaking the record of . This record before Samal sanju samson Was near, who played an unbeaten inning of 212 runs against Goa in 2019.

Big scores of Vijay Hazare Trophy

Owns the record for the biggest innings in Vijay Hazare Trophy history. Narayan Jagadeesan Has scored 277 runs against Arunachal Pradesh in 2022. Other major high scores include:

• Narayan Jagadeesan: 277 vs Arunachal Pradesh, 2022


• Prithvi Shaw: 227* vs Pondicherry, 2021


• Ruturaj Gaikwad: 220* vs Uttar Pradesh, 2022


• Sanju Samson: 212* vs Goa, 2019


• Swastika Samal: 212 vs Saurashtra, 2025


• Yashasvi Jaiswal: 203 vs Jharkhand, 2019


• Karun Nair: 202 vs Sikkim, 2018

Swastik Samal’s cricket career

Swastika Samal Was born on 27 July 2000. He made his T20 debut against Mizoram in February 2019, where he did not get any runs in the first match. However, he has 362 runs to his name in 13 T20 matches so far. Samal made his List A debut against Haryana in October 2019, but could only score 12 runs in that game. He has a total of 686 runs in 12 first-class matches, which include two centuries and three half-centuries.