Madhya Pradesh batter, Rajat Patidar has been making full use of his form in the ongoing Ranji Trophy final as he smashed a century against Mumbai on Day 4 of the big final at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru on Saturday, June 25. Patidar surpassed the three-figure mark in just 163 deliveries as the young batter scored runs all over the park on a good batting pitch in Bengaluru. Rajat Patidar flaunted his flamboyance as he demoralized the Mumbai bowling attack with his free-flowing knock.

Patidar had a reprieve when he was caught off a no-ball when he had just surpassed the 50-run mark. Patidar curbed his aggression and played a stellar role in his 60-run stand with captain Aditya Shrivastava. Patidar was also the third centurion for Madhya Pradesh in the first innings of the Ranji Trophy final as Yash Dubey (133) and Shubham Sharma (116) helped them come up with a strong reply to Mumbai’s total. It was the 8th first-class century for Patidar in the 42nd match.

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Rajat Patidar resumed on his overnight score of 67 and started Day 4 proceedings with a superbly-timed flick against Mohit Avasthi. Patidar kept on maintaining a brisk strike rate even as he was losing partners in quick succession in the morning session on Saturday. Patidar’s knock was crucial to Madhya Pradesh as they sealed a potentially match-winning first-innings lead, going past Mumbai’s tally of 374 on Day 4 morning.

Notably, it was Patidar’s second century in the ongoing Ranji Trophy season. He is second on the list of run-getters in the ongoing season, having taken his tally past 600 at an average of 89 in 6 games. Mumbai’s Sarfaraz Khan is on top of the list with 937 runs.

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Rajat Patidar managed to also achieve a special double as the Madhya Pradesh batter hit a hundred in the Ranji Trophy final, a month after scoring a hundred in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022 Eliminator for Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) against Lucknow Super Giants (LSG). Patidar had played a match-winning knock of 112 in just 54 balls as RCB was able to knock out Lucknow and progress to the Qualifier 2.

Patidar hit a fifty in Qualifier 2 against Rajasthan but it was not enough for RCB to progress to the final. Patidar played crucial knocks in the knockouts for Madhya Pradesh as he scored a quickfire knock of 85 against Punjab in the quarter-final and followed it up with a crucial 79 in the semi-final against Bengal.