Jharkhand’s Nadeem gets 8/10, breaks List A world record

Chennai, September 20 

Jharkhand spinner Shahbaz Nadeem Thursday broke a two-decade-old world record for the best bowling figures in List A cricket with an incredible haul of 8/10 against Rajasthan in the Vijay Hazare Trophy. 

Left-armer Nadeem ran through the Rajasthan batting to end a sensational spell. Rajasthan were all out for 73 runs in 28.3 overs with Nadeem's final figures reading 10-4-10-8. Jharkhand eventually won the game by seven wickets. The previous best bowling effort was by Delhi left-arm spinner Rahul Sanghvi, who achieved figures of 8/15 against HP in 1997-98. Sanghvi appeared in just one Test for India in 2001 against Australia. 

Nadeem also bagged a hat-trick in the match, dismissing MK Lomror (6), CD Bist (0) in the 20th over and TN Dhillon (1) off the first ball of the 22nd over.

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VIJAY HAZARE TROPHY

• Brief Scores: Railways: 187 all out in 47.5 overs (Karan Sharma 33, Harsh Tyagi 29; Mayank Dagar 4/38); Himachal Pradesh: 170/5 (Prashant Chopra 77; Anureet Sigh 2/26). HP won by 33 runs via VJD method.
• J&K: 96 in 23.4 overs (Paras Sharma 17; Prayas Ray Barman 4/20, Ishan Porel 3/19); Bengal: 98/4 in 20.4 overs (Shreevats Goswami 22). Bengal won by six wickets.