The organization of Vijay Hazare Trophy 2025-26 has started from Wednesday. On the first day, Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma scored record centuries while Odisha’s Swastik Samal scored a double century. Bihar scored 574 runs against Arunachal Pradesh, in which many records were made. For Bihar, 3 batsmen (Vaibhav Suryavanshi, Saqibul Ghani, Ayush Anand) scored centuries. See 10 big records made on the first day of the tournament.

1. Rohit Sharma’s special record

Mumbai player Rohit Sharma scored 155 runs against Sikkim. In this innings played in 94 balls, he hit 9 sixes and 18 fours. Rohit has become the second oldest player to score a century in Vijay Hazare Trophy. Rohit is currently 38 years 238 days old. In this matter, ahead of him is Anustup Majumdar of Bengal, who scored a century after the age of 39.

2. Virat Kohli made a record

Delhi batsman Virat Kohli played an inning of 131 runs in 101 balls against Andhra, although he made a big record by scoring only 1 run. He has become the fastest batsman to complete 16000 runs in men’s List A cricket. Kohli touched this figure in 330 innings, Sachin Tendulkar had completed 16000 runs in List A in 391 innings.

3. Swastika Samal created history

Today, Swastik Samal of Odisha played the biggest individual innings in Vijay Hazare Trophy, he scored a double century against Saurashtra. He scored 212 runs in 169 balls, becoming the first batsman to score a double century for Odisha in List A cricket. However, despite this historic innings, his team lost the match.

4. Second biggest win

Bihar registered a big win of 397 runs against Arunachal Pradesh. This is the second biggest win on the basis of runs in List A cricket. Tamil Nadu is at number one, they also won against Arunachal Pradesh in 2022-23 by a huge margin of 435 runs.

5. Saqibul Ghani’s fastest century

Bihar captain Saqibul Ghani completed his century in 32 balls, the fastest century by an Indian in men’s List A cricket. He broke the record of Anmolpreet Singh, who had scored a century in 35 balls against Arunachal Pradesh in 2024.

6. This happened for the first time in history

This is the first time in the history of Vijay Hazare Trophy, when 3 batsmen have scored centuries in an innings. Vaibhav Suryavanshi, captain Saqibul Ghani and Ayush Anand scored centuries for Bihar team. All three had completed their respective centuries in less than 50 balls, this is also a record.

7. The greatest innings

Bihar cricket team scored 574 runs against Arunachal Pradesh, this is the highest score in men’s List A cricket. Apart from this, more than 500 runs have been scored only once, in 2022-23 Tamil Nadu had scored 506 runs.

8. Vaibhav Suryavanshi made a record

Vaibhav Suryavanshi missed his double century, he scored 190 runs in just 84 balls. Vaibhav had completed 150 runs in 59 balls, he has become the batsman to score 150 runs in the fewest balls in List A cricket.

9. Bengal’s biggest victory

Batting first, Vidarbha had scored 382 runs. Chasing this big target, Shahbaz Ahmed (71), Abhimanyu Easwaran (71), Sudeep Kumar (68) played good innings and played an important role in the team’s victory. Chasing the target of 383, Bengal won by 3 wickets, this is Bengal’s most successful run chase in ODI cricket.

10. Most ‘sixes’ in an innings

A total of 38 sixes were hit in Bihar cricket team’s innings of 574 runs, which is the highest number of sixes in an innings in the history of Vijay Hazare Trophy. Vaibhav Suryavanshi hit 15 sixes, Saqibul Ghani hit 12 sixes.

Bihar captain Saqibul Ghani played a historic inning of 128 runs against Arunachal Pradesh in the first match of Vijay Hazare Trophy. He completed his century in 32 balls, the fastest century by an Indian in men’s List ‘A’ cricket. In world cricket, only Jake Fraser-McGurk (29) and AB de Villiers (31) are ahead of him in this matter. Know everything about them.

Saqibul Ghani born in Motihari

Saqibul Ghani was born on September 2, 1999 in Motihari, Bihar. He is a right-handed batsman, who has been playing for Bihar cricket team in domestic since 2019. Presently he is the captain of Bihar team.

Saqibul made his debut in List A cricket (in the Vijay Hazare Trophy) on 7 October 2019, playing for Bihar. On January 11, 2021, he made his T20 debut (Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy). He made his debut in first class cricket for Bihar while playing in the 2021-22 Ranji Trophy, in which he created history by scoring a triple century in the very first match.

Saqibul Ghani scored a triple century on debut

Saqibul Ghani scored a triple century in his debut match of Ranji Trophy, becoming the first cricketer to do so. In the next match, he played a not out inning of 101 runs in the third match. He scored 540 runs in the first 3 first class matches, this was also a record.

saqibul ghani record

Saqibul has scored 2035 runs in 46 innings played in 28 first class matches, in which his average is 47.32 and strike rate is 60.02. He has scored 5 centuries and 8 half-centuries in first class cricket.

Saqibul Ghani has scored 867 runs in 33 List A innings played with a strike rate of 71.95, his average is 29.89. Ghani has scored 2 centuries and 2 half-centuries in the list.

Saqibul Ghani has scored 986 runs in 35 innings played in 38 T20 matches, his strike rate is 127.55 and average is 31.80. Ghani has scored 1 century and 5 half-centuries in T20.