The 2019–20 Vijay Hazare Trophy is the 18th season of the

Vijay Hazare Trophy The Vijay Hazare Trophy (officially known as the IDFC First Bank Vijay Hazare Trophy for sponsorship reasons), is an annual List A Cricket competition organised by the BCCI. The Indian States and union territories teams take part in the Ranji ...

, a

List A cricket List A cricket is a classification of the limited-overs (one-day) form of the sport of cricket, with games lasting up to eight hours. List A cricket includes One Day International (ODI) matches and various domestic competitions in which the num ...

tournament in India. It is being contested by 38 teams, divided into four groups, with nine teams in Group B. The group stage started on 24 September 2019. The top five teams across

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and Group B progressed to the

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of the competition. Seventeen out of the first thirty matches that were scheduled to be played across all four groups were abandoned or finished in a

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. Therefore, the

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(BCCI) issued a revised schedule for the rain-affected matches. By 3 October 2019, twenty-two fixtures in Group B had been abandoned due to rain.

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criticized the pitches for Group-B matches in

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and called them "unfit" for List-A matches. After the final group matches,

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and

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had both progressed from Group B to the knockout phase of the tournament.

Points table

Fixtures

Round 1

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Round 5

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Round 8

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Round 10

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Round 12

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Round 14

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Round 16

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References

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