Why Bihar’s world record 574 blast raises more concerns than reasons to rejoice

Vaibhav Suryavanshi

As staggering a feat Vaibhav-inspired world-record was, it raises questions about the quality and depth of the tournament

On an astonishing opening day of the Vijay Hazare Trophy season, all eyeballs were glued to trickling updates from Jaipur and Bengaluru, where India heavyweights Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli marked their domestic attendance with stupendous centuries. 18 hundreds were hit in 16 matches among teams in the four Elite Groups, but it was the three centuries in a Plate group match that had triggered debates.

Bihar’s brutal suplex of the Arunachal Pradesh bowlers at the JSCA Oval in Ranchi as they posted a mammoth 574/6 resumed the distending concerns over world records being broken in the lower divisions of professional cricket in India.