Top 5 bowling performances from Day 4 of Vijay Hazare Trophy 2025/26

Bowling continues to be a tough job even in the fourth round of the Vijay Hazare Trophy (VHT) 2025/26, as only a few bowlers stood out with some strong performances to lift their team over the line. Some youngsters, who have already appeared in the IPL, stood out with a fine show.

Even the experienced players like Mukesh Kumar and Akash Deep or Anshul Kamboj, who have already tasted international cricket, also put up a great performance in the four rounds of the white-ball 50-over tournament.

A look at the top 5 bowling performances from Day 4 of Vijay Hazare Trophy 2025/26

1.   Darshan Nalkande (Vidarbha)

Darshan Nalkande has already featured in the Indian Premier League for the Gujarat Titans in the last three seasons of the league. The right-arm pacer, who picked up three wickets in IPL 2024, didn’t feature in a single game last season but has made a strong case to be included in the starting 11 with his clinical performance of four wickets for 33 runs in 6.1 overs.

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This helped Vidarbha bundle out Chandigarh for 113 in just 29.1 overs before they completed the successful chase by eight wickets with more than 27 overs to go. Nalkande won the ‘Player of the Match’ award for his heroics.

Brief Scores: Vidarbha 114/2 (Dhruv Shorey 43, Sandeep Sharma 1/16) beat Chandigarh 113 (Sanyam Saini 36, Darshan Nalkande 4/33) by eight wickets.  

2.   Mukhesh Kumar and Akash Deep (Bengal)

Mukesh Kumar has been out of the Indian side for more than a year. But he has put in some fine performances with the ball in the ongoing Vijay Hazare Trophy (VHT) 2025/26, especially in the last two contests. Fresh from his five-wicket haul against Chandigarh, the Bengal pacer picked up four for 16 runs in his six overs against Jammu & Kashmir, which helped Bengal to bundle out the opposition for 63 runs in 20.4 overs.

Meanwhile, he got full support from Akashdeep, who, however, has been a regular member in India's away Test matches. The right-arm pacer finished with 4 for 32 before Bengal completed an easy chase by 9 wickets inside 10 overs.

Brief Scores: Bengal 64/1 (Abhishek Porel 30, Auqib Nabi 1/21) beat Jammu & Kashmir 63 (Paras Dogra 19, Mukhesh Kumar 4/16, Akash Deep 4/32) by 9 wickets.

3.   Sukhdeep Bajwa (Punjab)

Punjab’s right-arm pacer, Sukhdeep Bhajwa, made his first-class debut last year against Bihar and has a decent performance of four wickets in two innings at an average of 34.25. He made his White Wall debut in this ongoing Vijay Hazare Trophy against Maharashtra and has impressed with some fine bowling performances.

However, his best performance in List-A cricket came against Himachal Pradesh, where he opened the bowling for Punjab and ended with a stunning figure of four for 17 in 7.2 overs at an economy rate of 2.3, including one maiden. Punjab completed chasing off 222 by 6 wickets with nearly 14 overs to spare.

Brief Scores: Punjab 223/4 (Prabhsimran Singh 84, Anmolpreet Singh 72, Rohit Kumar 2/32) beat Himachal Pradesh 221 (Pukhraj Mann 76, Sukhdeep Bajwa 4/17) by six wickets.

4.   Ankur Panwar (Saurashtra)

Saurashtra experienced a tough campaign in the first few rounds of the Vijay Hazare Trophy, but they slowly started to turn the tables with a 74-run victory against Andhra Pradesh, thanks to some performances from their right-arm pacer, Ankur Panwar.

In the first inning, Saurashtra posted a decent score of 254 in their allotted 50 overs with three of their batters failing to convert their half-centuries into three-figure marks. It needed some special bowling performance in the second innings after Ankur finished with five for 27 in his ten overs at an economy rate of 2.7, including two maidens to bundle Andrea for 180 runs.

Brief Scores: Saurashtra 254/7 (Chirag Jani 69, Harvik Desai 61, Satyanarayan Raju 3/45) beat Andhra 180 (CR Gnaneshwar 33, Ankur Panwar 5/27) by 74 runs.

5.   Anshul Kamboj (Haryana)

Anshul Kamboj got his first taste of international cricket during the recent Test match series for India against England away from home. He also experienced a successful yet short IPL 2025 stint with the Chennai Super Kings (CSK). However, Kamboj needed to put up a strong performance in domestic cricket to develop some of his skills.

He bowled some great line and length against services to end with a decent figure of 4/43 in 10 overs at an economy rate of 4.3. Haryana later completed the chase by 7 with their captain Ankit Kumar remaining unbeaten on 144 in 123 balls, thanks to 14 boundaries and four sixes.

Brief Scores: Haryana 275/3 (Ankit Kumar 144*, H Rana 64, Nitin Yadav 2/35) beat Services 271/8 (Irfan Ali 103, Anshul Kamboj 4/43) by seven wickets.