The dominance of batsmen is being seen in India's domestic tournament Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2024. Along with the young players, many senior players of Team India are also playing in this tournament, the name of star all-rounder Akshar Patel is also included in this list. Akshar Patel is playing as the captain of Gujarat. He played a stormy innings in the match played against Karnataka, which caught everyone's attention. Akshar scored runs at a strike rate of 280 and played an important role in helping his team win.

Akshar Patel's stormy innings

In this match, Karnataka had won the toss and invited Gujarat to bat first, which proved to be completely wrong. Akshar Patel played a captaincy innings while playing at number four in the match. Patel came to bat when Gujarat's score was 150/2. After this, Akshar took the team's innings forward and scored unbeaten 56 runs in 20 balls at a strike rate of 280. During this, he completed his half-century in just 18 balls. During this innings he hit 2 fours and 6 sixes.

Akshar Patel also scored 24 runs against Vidyadhar Patil in the last over of the innings. He started the over with a six. After this, he scored 2 runs on the second ball, then once again hit a six on the third ball. A four came off his bat on the fourth ball of the over. At the same time, the 5th ball remained empty, but on the last ball he hit another six and ended the innings.

Gujarat team won

Batting first, Gujarat team managed to score 251 runs in 20 overs due to Akshar Patel's stormy half-century. In response, Karnataka team was reduced to 203 runs in 19.1 overs. The team got a good start from Mayank Agarwal and Manish Pandey, but the rest of the batsmen could not do anything special, due to which they remained 48 runs short of the target.