Mumbai will meet Uttar Pradesh in the final of the Vijay Hazare Trophy of 2020/21. Mumbai, unbeaten in the tournament, will take field as slight favourites, though they will miss key players like Suryakumar Yadav, Shreyas Iyer, and Shardul Thakur. All of them are in the Indian international squad at this point. They will be up against a young Uttar Pradesh side, who, despite the absence of Bhuvneshwar Kumar, have played some delightful cricket since they won their tournament opener against defending champions Karnataka.
1 Vijay Hazare Trophy win for Uttar Pradesh, in 2004/05. They and Tamil Nadu were declared joint champions after the final was tied. They lost the final to Railways next year.
3 Vijay Hazare Trophy wins for Mumbai. The first of these came in 2003/04, when there was no final. They also beat Rajasthan in the final in 2006/07 and Delhi in 2018/19, but lost to Bengal in 2011/12.
3 catches needed by Akshdeep Nath (5 for Uttar Pradesh) to top the list among non-wicketkeepers in this edition. The top spot is shared by Hem Chetri of Nagaland and Nitish Reddy of Andhra, who have 7 catches each.
3 Vijay Hazare Trophy finals hosted by the Arun Jaitley Stadium so far. Bengal beat Mumbai in 2011/12, Tamil Nadu beat Bengal in 2016/17, and Karnataka beat Saurashtra in 2017/18. M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru is the only other venue to have hosted three finals (2015/16, 2018/19, 2019/20).
4 List A matches between Mumbai and Uttar Pradesh until now, of which Mumbai have won 3. However, the teams have not met in 14 years.
20 wickets for Shivam Sharma of Uttar Pradesh, the most in this edition. Of the others slated to play in the final, Dhawal Kulkarni and Prashant Solanki, both of Mumbai, has the most wickets (14).
754 runs for Prithvi Shaw in this year’s Vijay Hazare Trophy, a record aggregate for a single edition. Of the others slated to play in the final, Akshdeep of Uttar Pradesh has the most runs (332). Suryakumar Yadav also has 332 runs, but he will not feature in the final.