Skipper M. Shahrukh Khan top-scored with a quickfire 52 (57b, 2×4, 5×6) as TNCA XI obtained to 228 and claimed a 35-run first-innings lead versus Bengal on day two of the Group-D match within the Buchi Babu All India invitational cricket match on the India Cement Company floor right here on Monday.
As Shahrukh obtained to his fifty off simply 55 balls in round half-an-hour of the beginning of day’s play, there was better pleasure within the TNCA camp and among the many viewers to look at him hold going, however he instantly and sadly obtained bowled. Left-arm spinner Vaibhav Yadav’s non-turning supply that went with the angle did him in.
Shahrukh hit three sixes off pacer Syed Irfan Aftab – he twice pulled and as soon as hit down the bottom, and a six every off Vaibhav and pacer Sukhmeet Singh. It was to the duvet boundary off the previous, and to the cow nook off the latter.
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TNCA was in a position to handle solely the slender lead largely right down to Vaibhav’s 5 for 63. While Shubhang Mishra performed for the flip there wasn’t and obtained bowled like his skipper had, Jhathavedh Subramanyan was the sufferer of the basic left-arm spinner’s mode of dismissal – the ball pitched on middle-and-off and turned simply as a lot to hit the highest of off-stump. Madhava Prasad was caught at level and Ch. Jitendra Kumar at slip on Sunday.
Nineteen-year-old Shashank Singh adopted up his 68 within the first innings with a 59 (84b, 8×4, 1×6) and left-hander Toufik Uddin Mondal was unbeaten on 52 (53b, 5×4, 3×6) as Bengal ended the day with an 151-run lead.
The scores: Group-D (day two): Bengal 193 & 186/7 in 55 overs (Shashank Singh 59, Toufik Uddin Mondal 52 n.o.) vs. TNCA XI 228 in 65.5 overs (D. Santhosh Kumar 42, M. Shahrukh Khan 52, Nidhish S. Rajagopal 43, Vaibhav Yadav 5/63).
Source web site: sportstar.thehindu.com
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