Rinku Singh scored his second century in List-A cricket.Image Credit source: PTI

Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Vaibhav Suryavanshi and Ishan Kishan… these are the names who won a lot of applause with their explosive batting in the very first match of Vijay Hazare Trophy. In such a situation, there is continuous discussion about these stars only. But amidst all these discussions, Team India's young batsman Rinku Singh is also making his mark. Rinku, who made it to Team India for the T20 World Cup, gave a glimpse of his form before the tournament and scored an explosive century.

Rajkot on Friday 26th December Vijay Hazare Trophy In the Elite Group B match, Rinku Singh played this inning, thrashing the Chandigarh bowlers. In this match, Uttar Pradesh, which was batting first, was put in a good position by opener Aryan Juyal and number three batsman Dhruv Jurel. After this, Captain Rinku created such a storm with his bat that the entire Chandigarh team was blown away and the star batsman scored a brilliant century.

Rinku's century in just 56 balls

UP captain Rinku, who came to the crease to bat at number five, started hitting fours and sixes without any delay and completed his half-century in 35 balls. Rinku had scored 67 runs in 48 balls in the first match also. But this time he took his innings forward and died after completing his century. Left-handed batsman Rinku completed his century in just 56 balls. This is only his second century in his List-A career and he remained unbeaten till the end. He scored 106 runs in 60 balls, which included 11 fours and 4 sixes.

The biggest inning of Rinku's career

This is the biggest score of Rinku's career. Earlier he had scored 104 runs. During this, he along with opener Aryan Juyal made a partnership of 134 runs for the fourth wicket. Young opener Aryan scored the 5th century of his List A career and was out after scoring 134 runs in 118 balls. Apart from him, Dhruv Jurel scored a half-century for the second consecutive match and was out after scoring 67 runs. On the basis of these innings, Uttar Pradesh scored 367 runs after losing 4 wickets.

Team India's troubles increased

With this innings, Rinku has increased the problems for Team India.