2019–20 Vijay Hazare Trophy Plate Group Explained

2019–20 Vijay Hazare Trophy Plate Group
Fromdate:	24 September
Todate:	17 October 2019
Administrator:	BCCI
Cricket Format:	List A cricket
Tournament Format:	Round-robin
Participants:	10
Previous Year:	2018–19
Previous Tournament:	2018–19 Vijay Hazare Trophy

The 2019–20 Vijay Hazare Trophy is the 18th season of the Vijay Hazare Trophy, a List A cricket tournament in India.^[1] It is being contested by 38 teams, divided into four groups, with ten teams in Plate Group.^[2] The group stage started on 24 September 2019.^[3] The top team in the Plate Group progressed to the quarter-finals of the competition.^[4]

Seventeen out of the first thirty matches that were scheduled to be played across all four groups were abandoned or finished in a no result. Therefore, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) issued a revised schedule for the rain-affected matches.^[5] ^[6] The statistics for cancelled matches were revoked leading to Rongsen Jonathan missing out on his maiden hundred in List A cricket.^[7]

After the final group matches, Pondicherry finished top of the Plate Group to progress to the knockout phase of the tournament.^[8]

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Round 17

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Notes and References

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Web site: BCCI Domestic Schedule 2019–20 . Board of Control for Cricket in India . 3 July 2019 . 12 September 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200912164935/http://relaunch-live.s3.amazonaws.com/cms/documents/5d1b1400c82f1-BCCI%20Domestic.pdf . dead .
Web site: Neutral curators to pick wickets in Ranji Trophy, 2019–20 domestic season to begin in August with Duleep Trophy . Cricket Country . 5 August 2019.
Web site: Mushtaq Ali Trophy to be held ahead of IPL auction as BCCI announces domestic schedule . Times of India . 3 July 2019.
Web site: Vijay Hazare Trophy: Rain washes out all matches in Group B . Hindustan Times . 27 September 2019.
Web site: Rain-affected Vijay Hazare Trophy games to be rescheduled . ESPNcricinfo . 27 September 2019.
Web site: Rongsen Jonathan feels 'robbed' after maiden List A ton deemed invalid . ESPNcricinfo . 14 October 2019 . 17 October 2019.
Web site: Vinay Kumar to take on Karnataka in Vijay Hazare Trophy quarterfinals . ESPNcricinfo . 17 October 2019.