Devdutt Padikkal creates massive record during sixth round of Vijay Hazare Trophy 2025/26

Devdutt Padikkal continues his purple patch in the ongoing 2025/26 season of the Vijay Hazare Trophy (VHT) as he racks his fifth fifty-plus score in six innings when Karnataka took on Rajasthan at the Gujarat College ground in Ahmedabad on January 06. The left-handed batter missed from what could have been his fifth century of the edition. 

Opening the batting for Karnataka, Devdutt fell for 91 against the left-arm spinner, Manav Suthar, as his knock was well decorated with 12 boundaries and a couple of sixes at a strike rate of 110.98. He has now celebrated 13 centuries in 34 innings, which is a staggering record in the domestic 50-over event in India.

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This record has only been overtaken by Maharashtra’s Ankit Bawne, who has 15 centuries in 99 games and Ruturaj Gaikwad, who has notched up 14 centuries in 57 clashes while Padikkal is still set for a fresh record in a tournament having crossed the 600 run mark in just six innings of the season.

Devdutt Padikkal completes 600 runs in VHT 2025/26

The opening batter for Karnataka made his List A debut in 2018 and has gone on a tear in the tournament, having notched up 609 runs in 11 innings in only his second season in the 2019-20 edition. In the following season of the tournament, he backed it up with a sensational 737 runs in eight innings, which was decorated with four consecutive hundreds.

With over 600 runs in six innings of this ongoing season, Padikkal becomes the first batter in the history of the Vijay Hazare Trophy to accumulate as many runs in a season thrice in their career. His List-A average currently stands at 83.62 across 38 innings, which is the highest for any batter who has over 2000 runs in this format.

Rudraksh Gaikwad follows Particle with an average of 57.69, while Brad Cohen averages 57.67 for his massive record of 16000+ List-A runs. Despite the record, he hasn’t been selected for the New Zealand series, but he has already knocked on the door of the selectors.

Brief Scores: Karnataka 271/5 (Mayanak Agarwal 100, Devdutt Padikkal 91, Manav Suthar 2/47) vs Rajasthan.