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{{Infobox cricket tournament
| name = 2015–16 Vijay Hazare Trophy Group D
| image =
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| fromdate = 10 December 2015
| todate = 15 December 2015
| caption =
| administrator = [[Board of Control for Cricket in India|BCCI]]
| cricket format = [[List A cricket]]
| tournament format = [[Round-robin tournament|Round robin]]
| host = Saurashtra
| champions =
| count =
| participants = 6
| matches = 15
| attendance =
| most runs =
| most wickets =
| website =
| previous_year =
| previous_tournament =
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{{2015–16 Indian domestic cricket season}}

'''2015–16 Vijay Hazare Trophy''' is the 14th season of the [[Vijay Hazare Trophy]], a [[List A cricket|List A]] cricket tournament in India. It is contested by 27 domestic cricket teams of India divided into 4 Groups.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/series/901115.html|title=Vijay Hazare Trophy|website=Cricinfo|access-date=2016-10-27}}</ref> The winner will advance to play [[2015–16 Deodhar Trophy]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/sport/cricket/bcci-revamps-deodhar-trophy-vijay-hazare-trophy-formats-announces-900-matches/article7443553.ece|title=BCCI scraps Duleep Trophy, revamps Deodhar, Hazare|date=2015-07-20|newspaper=The Hindu|language=en-IN|issn=0971-751X|access-date=2016-10-27}}</ref>
:The top two teams advanced to the [[2015–16 Vijay Hazare Trophy|quarter finals]].

==Fixtures==
===Round one===
Ashoke Dinda (3/40)-led attack held Goa to 235 for nine, Manoj Tiwary took Bengal to victory with an unbeaten 62-run knock off as many balls. Chasing the target, Shreevats Goswami (70) set-up the innings with a 116-run opening stand with S Mondal. The Bengal captain then took his team to the target with 52 balls to spare.
{{Limited overs matches
| date = 10 December 2015
| time =
| daynight =
| team1 = [[Goa cricket team|Goa]]
| team2 = [[Bengal cricket team|Bengal]]
| score1 = 235/9 (50 overs)
| score2 = 238/4 (41.2 overs)
| runs1 = [[Saurabh Bandekar]] 62 (53)
| wickets1 = [[Ashok Dinda]] 3/40 (10 overs)
| runs2 = [[Shreevats Goswami]] 70 (77)
| wickets2 = [[Darshan Misal]] 2/36 (6 overs)
| result = Bengal won by 6 wickets
| report = [http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/901935.html Scorecard]
| venue = [[Madhavrao Scindia Cricket Ground]], [[Rajkot]]
| umpires = [[Ulhas Gandhe]] and [[Shavir Tarapore]]
| motm =
| toss = Bengal won the toss and elected to field.
| rain =
| notes = [[Aamir Gani]], [[Sayan Ghosh]] and [[Pankaj Shaw]] (Bengal) all made their List A debuts.
}}
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Leading from the front, captain Eklavya Dwivedi led UP to the 244-run target with an unbeaten 104. The batsman's maiden List A century came off 127 balls with 15 boundaries. He was ably supported by Rinku Singh, who remained not out on 62. Earlier while Praveen Kumar (2/37) and Piyush Chawla (3/49) claimed wickets at regular intervals, Rishi Dhawan lifted HP to 243 with an unbeaten 67-run knock. Left on 126 for six the all-rounder had held the innings together to take the team to a modest score.
{{Limited overs matches
| date = 10 December 2015
| time =
| daynight =
| team1 = [[Himachal Pradesh cricket team|Himachal Pradesh]]
| team2 = [[Uttar Pradesh cricket team|Uttar Pradesh]]
| score1 = 243/8 (50 overs)
| score2 = 247/3 (47.2 overs)
| runs1 = [[Rishi Dhawan]] 67[[not out|*]] (64)
| wickets1 = [[Piyush Chawla]] 3/49 (10 overs)
| runs2 = [[Eklavya Dwivedi]] 104[[not out|*]] (127)
| wickets2 = [[Ronit More]] 1/24 (8 overs)
| result = Uttar Pradesh won by 7 wickets
| report = [http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/901937.html Scorecard]
| venue = [[Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium]], [[Rajkot]]
| umpires = [[Subrat Das]] and [[Chettithody Shamshuddin]]
| motm =
| toss = Uttar Pradesh won the toss and elected to field.
| rain =
| notes = [[Israr Azim]], [[Mohammad Javed (Indian cricketer)|Mohammad Javed]], [[Samarth Singh]] and [[Saurabh Kumar (cricketer)|Saurabh Kumar]] (Uttar Pradesh) all made their List A debuts.
}}

===Round two===
Ravindra Jadeja starred in the Saurashtra's victory with the bat and the ball. While Sheldon Jackson scored 111, Jadeja made 134 off 117 before falling to Ishwar Pandey off the last ball. After being left on 53 for three, Jackson and Jadeja built a 135-run partnership to revive the innings. The all-rounder then built a 152-run stand for the fifth wicket with Chirag Jani to set MP a stiff target.

Jalaj Saxena then led MP's fight with a run-a-ball 133 while Rajat Patidar and Naman Ojha scored half-centuries to keep the team in the game. While Shaurya Sanandia claimed three, Jaydev Unadkat claimed two and Jadeja wrapped-up MP's innings for 334 to finish with two scalps.
{{Limited overs matches
| date = 11 December 2015
| time =
| daynight =
| team1 = [[Saurashtra cricket team|Saurashtra]]
| team2 = [[Madhya Pradesh cricket team|Madhya Pradesh]]
| score1 = 340/5 (50 overs)
| score2 = 333 (49.1 overs)
| runs1 = [[Ravindra Jadeja]] 134 (117)
| wickets1 = [[Ishwar Pandey]] 1/55 (10 overs)
| runs2 = [[Jalaj Saxena]] 133 (133)
| wickets2 = [[Saurya Sanandiya]] 3/59 (10 overs)
| result = Saurashtra won by 7 runs
| report = [http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/901939.html Scorecard]
| venue = [[Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium]], [[Rajkot]]
| umpires = [[Subrat Das]] and [[Chettithody Shamshuddin]]
| motm =
| toss = Madhya Pradesh won the toss and elected to field.
| rain =
| notes = [[Venkatesh Iyer]], [[Rajat Patidar]], [[Parth Sahani]] (Madhya Pradesh) and [[Deepak Punia]] (Saurashtra) all made their List A debuts.
}}
----
The 157-run stand for the second wicket between Prashant Chopra (91) and Robin Bist (84) laid a platform for a formidable score for HP after being asked to bat. Paras Dogra (78) and Rishi Dhawan (31) then added 101 for the fourth wicket to keep the innings on course. The rest of the lineup did poorly but the two solid partnerships helped the team to a 308-run total.

Pankaj Jaswal then claimed three while captain Bipul Sharma picked two wickets to bowl Bengal out for 219 and post their first win of the tournament.
{{Limited overs matches
| date = 11 December 2015
| time =
| daynight =
| team1 = [[Himachal Pradesh cricket team|Himachal Pradesh]]
| team2 = [[Bengal cricket team|Bengal]]
| score1 = 308/7 (50 overs)
| score2 = 219 (36.3 overs)
| runs1 = [[Prashant Chopra]] 91 (98)
| wickets1 = [[Sayan Ghosh]] 3/67 (7 overs)
| runs2 = [[Pankaj Shaw]] 68 (53)
| wickets2 = [[Pankaj Jaiswal]] 3/28 (7 overs)
| result = Himachal Pradesh won by 89 runs
| report = [http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/901961.html Scorecard]
| venue = [[Madhavrao Scindia Cricket Ground]], [[Rajkot]]
| umpires = [[Ulhas Gandhe]] and [[Shavir Tarapore]]
| motm =
| toss = Bengal won the toss and elected to field.
| rain =
| notes =
}}
----
Ravindra Jadeja starred in the Saurashtra's victory with the bat and the ball. While Sheldon Jackson scored 111, Jadeja made 134 off 117 before falling to Ishwar Pandey off the last ball. After being left on 53 for three, Jackson and Jadeja built a 135-run partnership to revive the innings. The all-rounder then built a 152-run stand for the fifth wicket with Chirag Jani to set MP a stiff target.

Jalaj Saxena then led MP's fight with a run-a-ball 133 while Rajat Patidar and Naman Ojha scored half-centuries to keep the team in the game. While Shaurya Sanandia claimed three, Jaydev Unadkat claimed two and Jadeja wrapped-up MP's innings for 334 to finish with two scalps.
{{Limited overs matches
| date = 12 December 2015
| time =
| daynight =
| team1 = [[Goa cricket team|Goa]]
| team2 = [[Saurashtra cricket team|Saurashtra]]
| score1 = 199 (47.4 overs)
| score2 = 202/0 (26.3 overs)
| runs1 = [[Sagun Kamat]] 95 (141)
| wickets1 = [[Saurya Sanandiya]] 3/41 (8.4 overs)
| runs2 = [[Sheldon Jackson (cricketer)|Sheldon Jackson]] 150[[not out|*]] (103)
| wickets2 =
| result = Saurashtra won by 10 wickets
| report = [http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/901959.html Scorecard]
| venue = [[Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium]], [[Rajkot]]
| umpires = [[Subrat Das]] and [[Ulhas Gandhe]]
| motm =
| toss = Saurashtra won the toss and elected to field.
| rain =
| notes = This was [[Sheldon Jackson (cricketer)|Sheldon Jackson]]'s second century in as many days in the competition.<ref name="Sheldon">{{Cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/vijay-hazare-trophy-2015-16/content/story/951767.html |title=Jackson smashes second successive ton |accessdate=12 December 2015 |work=ESPN Cricinfo}}</ref>
}}

===Round three===
{{Limited overs matches
| date = 13 December 2015
| time =
| daynight =
| team1 = [[Bengal cricket team|Bengal]]
| team2 = [[Uttar Pradesh cricket team|Uttar Pradesh]]
| score1 = 221 (48.3 overs)
| score2 = 222/6 (46.4 overs)
| runs1 = [[Sudip Chatterjee (cricketer)|Sudip Chatterjee]] 97 (144)
| wickets1 = [[Mohammad Javed (Indian cricketer)|Mohammad Javed]] 4/40 (8.3 overs)
| runs2 = [[Umang Sharma]] 73 (94)
| wickets2 = [[Mohammed Shami]] 2/52 (10 overs)
| result = Uttar Pradesh won by 4 wickets
| report = [http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/901985.html Scorecard]
| venue = [[Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium]], [[Rajkot]]
| umpires = [[Chettithody Shamshuddin]] and [[R. Sundar]]
| motm =
| toss = Bengal won the toss and elected to bat.
| rain =
| notes = [[Mukesh Kumar (cricketer)|Mukesh Kumar]] (Bengal) made his List A debut.
}}
----
{{Limited overs matches
| date = 13 December 2015
| time =
| daynight =
| team1 = [[Goa cricket team|Goa]]
| team2 = [[Madhya Pradesh cricket team|Madhya Pradesh]]
| score1 = 214 (43.3 overs)
| score2 = 215/3 (42.2 overs)
| runs1 = [[Saurabh Bandekar]] 68 (68)
| wickets1 = [[Jalaj Saxena]] 2/21 (4.2 overs)
| runs2 = [[Harpreet Singh (cricketer, born 1991)|Harpreet Singh]] 74[[not out|*]] (72)
| wickets2 = [[Shadab Jakati]] 2/49 (10 overs)
| result = Madhya Pradesh won by 7 wickets
| report = [http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/901987.html Scorecard]
| venue = [[Madhavrao Scindia Cricket Ground]], [[Rajkot]]
| umpires = [[Subrat Das]] and [[Shavir Tarapore]]
| motm =
| toss = Goa won the toss and elected to bat.
| rain =
| notes = [[Chandrakant Sakure]] (Madhya Pradesh) made his List A debut.
}}

===Round four===
{{Limited overs matches
| date = 14 December 2015
| time =
| daynight =
| team1 = [[Saurashtra cricket team|Saurashtra]]
| team2 = [[Himachal Pradesh cricket team|Himachal Pradesh]]
| score1 = 195 (48.4 overs)
| score2 = 197/3 (43.2 overs)
| runs1 = [[Cheteshwar Pujara]] 73 (113)
| wickets1 = [[Ronit More]] 3/44 (9 overs)
| runs2 = [[Ankush Bains]] 76 (109)
| wickets2 = [[Kamlesh Makvana]] 2/26 (6.2 overs)
| result = Himachal Pradesh won by 7 wickets
| report = [http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/901983.html Scorecard]
| venue = [[Madhavrao Scindia Cricket Ground]], [[Rajkot]]
| umpires = [[Ulhas Gandhe]] and [[R. Sundar]]
| motm =
| toss = Saurashtra won the toss and elected to bat.
| rain =
| notes =
}}
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{{Limited overs matches
| date = 14 December 2015
| time =
| daynight =
| team1 = [[Uttar Pradesh cricket team|Uttar Pradesh]]
| team2 = [[Madhya Pradesh cricket team|Madhya Pradesh]]
| score1 = 211 (46.3 overs)
| score2 = 212/2 (39.1 overs)
| runs1 = [[Akshdeep Nath]] 67 (74)
| wickets1 = [[Puneet Datey]] 2/32 (9 overs)
| runs2 = [[Naman Ojha]] 114[[not out|*]] (122)
| wickets2 = [[Bhuvneshwar Kumar]] 1/44 (8 overs)
| result = Madhya Pradesh won by 8 wickets
| report = [http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/901963.html Scorecard]
| venue = [[Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium]], [[Rajkot]]
| umpires = [[Umesh Dubey]] and [[Chettithody Shamshuddin]]
| motm =
| toss = Madhya Pradesh won the toss and elected to field.
| rain =
| notes =
}}

===Round five===
{{Limited overs matches
| date = 16 December 2015
| time =
| daynight =
| team1 = [[Goa cricket team|Goa]]
| team2 = [[Himachal Pradesh cricket team|Himachal Pradesh]]
| score1 = 184 (45.4 overs)
| score2 = 187/3 (29.2 overs)
| runs1 = [[Sagun Kamat]] 57 (95)
| wickets1 = [[Pankaj Jaiswal]] 3/26 (7.4 overs)
| runs2 = [[Prashant Chopra]] 67 (53)
| wickets2 = [[Shadab Jakati]] 3/33 (7 overs)
| result = Himachal Pradesh won by 7 wickets
| report = [http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/902007.html Scorecard]
| venue = [[Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium]], [[Rajkot]]
| umpires = [[Subrat Das]] and [[Umesh Dubey]]
| motm =
| toss = Himachal Pradesh won the toss and elected to field.
| rain =
| notes =
}}
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{{Limited overs matches
| date = 16 December 2015
| time =
| daynight =
| team1 = [[Saurashtra cricket team|Saurashtra]]
| team2 = [[Uttar Pradesh cricket team|Uttar Pradesh]]
| score1 = 189 (48.5 overs)
| score2 = 191/5 (44.4 overs)
| runs1 = [[Cheteshwar Pujara]] 41 (68)
| wickets1 = [[Piyush Chawla]] 3/53 (10 overs)
| runs2 = [[Shubham Chaubey]] 85[[not out|*]] (125)
| wickets2 = [[Dharmendrasinh Jadeja]] 2/38 (10 overs)
| result = Uttar Pradesh won by 5 wickets
| report = [http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/902009.html Scorecard]
| venue = [[Madhavrao Scindia Cricket Ground]], [[Rajkot]]
| umpires = [[Chettithody Shamshuddin]] and [[R. Sundar]]
| motm =
| toss = Uttar Pradesh won the toss and elected to field.
| rain =
| notes = [[Shubham Chaubey]] (Uttar Pradesh) made his List A debut.
}}

===Round six===
{{Limited overs matches
| date = 17 December 2015
| time =
| daynight =
| team1 = [[Bengal cricket team|Bengal]]
| team2 = [[Madhya Pradesh cricket team|Madhya Pradesh]]
| score1 = 262 (50 overs)
| score2 = 263/5 (46.5 overs)
| runs1 = [[Sayan Mondal]] 88 (109)
| wickets1 = [[Puneet Datey]] 2/42 (10 overs)
| runs2 = [[Harpreet Singh (cricketer, born 1991)|Harpreet Singh]] 71 (72)
| wickets2 = [[Ashok Dinda]] 2/35 (9.5 overs)
| result = Madhya Pradesh won by 5 wickets
| report = [http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/902011.html Scorecard]
| venue = [[Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium]], [[Rajkot]]
| umpires = [[Chettithody Shamshuddin]] and [[R. Sundar]]
| motm =
| toss = Madhya Pradesh won the toss and elected to field.
| rain =
| notes = [[Abhimanyu Easwaran]] (Bengal) made his List A debut.
}}
----
{{Limited overs matches
| date = 17 December 2015
| time =
| daynight =
| team1 = [[Goa cricket team|Goa]]
| team2 = [[Uttar Pradesh cricket team|Uttar Pradesh]]
| score1 = 218 (49.5 overs)
| score2 = 224/4 (36.3 overs)
| runs1 = [[Reagan Pinto]] 66 (81)
| wickets1 = [[Suresh Raina]] 2/32 (8 overs)
| runs2 = [[Umang Sharma]] 85[[not out|*]] (94)
| wickets2 = [[Shadab Jakati]] 3/48 (10 overs)
| result = Uttar Pradesh won by 6 wickets
| report = [http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/902031.html Scorecard]
| venue = [[Madhavrao Scindia Cricket Ground]], [[Rajkot]]
| umpires = [[Subrat Das]] and [[Umesh Dubey]]
| motm =
| toss = Uttar Pradesh won the toss and elected to field.
| rain =
| notes =
}}

===Round seven===
{{Limited overs matches
| date = 18 December 2015
| time =
| daynight =
| team1 = [[Bengal cricket team|Bengal]]
| team2 = [[Saurashtra cricket team|Saurashtra]]
| score1 = 243/5 (50 overs)
| score2 = 246/4 (46 overs)
| runs1 = [[Abhimanyu Easwaran]] 48 (56)
| wickets1 = [[Dharmendrasinh Jadeja]] 3/46 (10 overs)
| runs2 = [[Samarth Vyas]] 94 (103)
| wickets2 = [[Aamir Gani]] 1/40 (10 overs)
| result = Saurashtra won by 6 wickets
| report = [http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/902033.html Scorecard]
| venue = [[Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium]], [[Rajkot]]
| umpires = [[Chettithody Shamshuddin]] and [[R. Sundar]]
| motm =
| toss = Bengal won the toss and elected to bat.
| rain =
| notes = [[Pradipta Pramanik]] (Bengal); [[Vandit Jivrajani]] and [[Samarth Vyas]] (Saurashtra) all made their List A debuts.
}}
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{{Limited overs matches
| date = 18 December 2015
| time =
| daynight =
| team1 = [[Himachal Pradesh cricket team|Himachal Pradesh]]
| team2 = [[Madhya Pradesh cricket team|Madhya Pradesh]]
| score1 = 295/5 (50 overs)
| score2 = 254 (46.1 overs)
| runs1 = [[Rishi Dhawan]] 117[[not out|*]] (88)
| wickets1 = [[Chandrakant Sakure]] 1/37 (5 overs)
| runs2 = [[Venkatesh Iyer]] 57 (70)
| wickets2 = [[Pankaj Jaiswal]] 6/33 (9.1 overs)
| result = Himachal Pradesh won by 41 runs
| report = [http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/902035.html Scorecard]
| venue = [[Madhavrao Scindia Cricket Ground]], [[Rajkot]]
| umpires = [[Subrat Das]] and [[Umesh Dubey]]
| motm =
| toss = Madhya Pradesh won the toss and elected to field
| rain =
| notes =
}}

==References==
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