India, Jan. 3 -- Hardik Pandya marked his return to the Vijay Hazare Trophy in some style, scoring a century for Baroda against Vidarbha on Saturday at the Niranjan Shah Stadium, Khandheri in Rajkot. The 32-year-old eventually played a knock of 133 off just 92 balls with the help of 8 fours and 11 sixes. The batter was batting on 66 off 62 balls, but in the next 30 deliveries, he unleashed the beast mode, hitting 67 runs. The batter was eventually dismissed by Yash Thakur, but he had done his job by then, and this knock helped Baroda post 293/9 in the allotted fifty overs.

Before the beginning of the 39th over, Hardik was batting on 66 off 62 balls; however, he then decided to take the matter into his own hands, hitting 34 runs off the n...