Buchi Babu tournament: TNCA XI in control after bundling out Bengal for 193 on opening day

Leg-spinner Jhathavedh Subramanyan picked up three for 12 in 5 overs and pacer Ajay Ok. Krishnan, left-arm spinner M. Siddharth, and off-spinner Shahrukh Khan claimed two wickets every as TNCA XI bowled out Bengal for 193 on day one of many Group-D match within the Buchi Babu All India invitational cricket match on the India Cement Company floor right here on Sunday.

TNCA had 4 wickets, whereas Bengal’s 19-year-old Shashank Singh introduced up his fifty within the first session. After resumption, skipper Shahrukh selected to bowl himself to attempt to break the fifth-wicket partnership (69, 111b) between Shashank and left-hander Deepak Kumar Mahato. And he did break the stand, when Shashank (68, 115b, 4×4, 4×6) gave him the cost and holed out to long-on. The off-spinner virtually had one other wicket in the identical over as a catch was put down within the slips. Shahrukh had Sukhmeet Singh caught at midwicket off a full toss in his subsequent over.

Jhathavedh, who got here into the assault solely within the forty ninth over, helped TNCA wrap up Bengal’s innings.

In the absence of pacer Yudheeswaran, from the primary match versus Kerala, medium-pacer Nidhish S. Rajagopal stepped as much as bowl 5 overs and get a wicket – southpaw Toufik Uddin Mondal miscued his pull off a shorter ball for Shahrukh to place himself for its touchdown on the first slip.

Shashank hit 4 sixes – pulled Saravana Kumar, hit Siddharth twice down the bottom and as soon as over deep midwicket. He expressed his satisfaction on taking part in a big innings in such a high-profile match in his budding profession.

“The bowlers were good. It’s a good team (TNCA XI), a fighting team. So, I feel good having scored some runs.”