Rituraj Gaikwad became a trouble-shooter for Maharashtra and scored a century, will he get a place in India’s ODI team against NZ?

By Samira Vishwas On Jan 2, 2026

Ruturaj Gaikwad Century: Vijay Hazare Trophy, a 50-over domestic tournament in India (Vijay Hazare Trophy 2025-26) Where Maharashtra is being played on Wednesday, 31 December (Maharashtra) Captain Ruturaj Gaikwad (Ruturaj Gaikwad) Uttarakhand as a trouble-shooter (Uttarakhand) Played a brilliant century against. It is noteworthy that with this he has attracted the attention of the Indian selectors, who will soon be playing the three-match ODI series against New Zealand starting from January 11. (IND vs NZ ODI Series) Are going to select Team India for.

Yes, that is what has happened. First of all, know that in this match, 28 year old Rituraj Gaikwad batted at number-4 for Maharashtra and holding one end, scored 124 runs in 113 balls, hitting 12 fours and 3 sixes. The special thing is that his innings came in a pressure situation when Maharashtra lost 3 wickets at the score of 50 runs in its first 10 overs.

Let us tell you that Rituraj Gaikwad was also a part of the Indian team in the recent three-match ODI series against South Africa, where he took the responsibility of batting at number-4 in the absence of Shreyas Iyer. Here too, in the second match of the series, he created a stir with his bat and scored a century of 105 runs in 83 balls.

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What a fine knock this has been from the Maharashtra captain! #MPvMAH #VijayHazareTrophy pic.twitter.com/oGEz3r6BEM
— BCCI Domestic (@BCCIDomestic) December 8, 2021

It is noteworthy that 28 year old Rituraj has so far scored 228 runs in 8 innings of 9 ODI matches for the country, while he has 633 runs in his name in 20 innings of 23 T20 matches. Apart from this, he is continuously doing wonders in List A cricket and has scored 4714 runs at an average of around 56. In such a situation, it will be very interesting to see whether the Indian selectors select him in the squad for the ODI series against New Zealand or not.

If we talk about the match between Maharashtra and Uttarakhand, then on the basis of Rituraj Gaikwad’s century, Maharashtra has set the target of 332 runs by losing 7 wickets in 50 overs, chasing which, till the time of writing the news, Uttarakhand has added 81 runs by losing 3 wickets. From here they now need 251 runs in 32.3 overs. In such a situation, it will be very interesting to see which team wins this match of Vijay Hazare Trophy.