Karnataka in dire strait in Buchi Babu

By IANS,

Chennai : Karnataka’s miserable run continued in the Buchi Babu All-India Cricket Tournament as they slid to 27 for four after dismissing Gujarat for 195 here Tuesday.


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Karnataka, who had lost their opening league fixture to Kerala, did well to restrict Gujarat with R. Vinay Kumar and K.P. Appanna taking three wickets apiece, but the response was rather poor as they lost their top four batsmen for next to nothing.

Meanwhile, Saurashtra’s Jaydev Shah played a captain’s knock of 99 (122b, 9×4, 4×6) as his team piled up 337 for nine in their allotted 90 overs against Vidarbha.

Brief scores:

Group A: Odisha 233 in 85 overs (Abhilash Mallick 44, Biplab Samantram 43, Govind Podder 35, Lalith Mohan four for 69, Paramveer Singh three for 58) vs Hyderabad 14 no loss in eight overs,

Group B: TNCA XI 245 in 79.4 overs (KB Arun Karthick 74, S Suresh Kumar 43, B Indrajith 53, V Maaruthi Raghav 34, Bhargav Bhatt five for 77, Murtuja Vahora two for 27, Ketul Patel two for 80) vs Baroda 28 no loss in eight overs.

Group C:Saurashtra 337 for nine in 90 Overs (Chirag Pathak 31, Arpit Vasavada 37, Chirag Jani 46, Jaydev Shah 99, Rahul Dave 50, Siddesh Neral three for 63, Gaurav Upadhyay three for 55, Amol Jungade two for 75) vs Vidarbha.

Assam 237 in 82.5 overs (Pallav Das 30, Hokaito Zhimomi 44, Rajdeep Das 33, J Syed Mohammed 62, M Prabhu four for 71, A Aswin Crist two for 45) vs TNCA President’s XI 12 no loss in five overs,

Group D: Gujarat 195 in 71 overs (Priyank Panchal 55, Manpreet Juneja 30, Bhavik Thakker 35, R Vinay Kumar three for 24, KP Appanna three for 37) vs Karnataka 27 for four in 17 overs (Akshar Patel two for six).

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