Cuttack: Skipper Ravi Teja and tailender Tanay Thyagarajan struck resolute fifties as Hyderabad fought to remain afloat of their Ranji Trophy group B match towards Bengal by decreasing the rival workforce’s first innings result in simply 37 earlier than being bowled out for 205 right here on Friday. At shut on day two, Bengal had constructed on it barely for an total lead of 53 with 9 wickets intact after they bundled out Hyderabad.
Fresh from grabbing 5/71 in Bengal’s first innings, Thyagarajan scored a valiant 103-ball 52 batting at No 9, whereas skipper Teja remained unbeaten on 81 from 196 balls to considerably rescue Hyderabad. Teja, who claimed 3/48 in Bengal’s 242 all out on day one, steadied Hyderabad after they have been 70/7. He stitched a 109-run eighth wicket partnership with Thyagarajan.
Teja smashed two sixes and 6 fours in his 196-ball knock, whereas Thyagarajan slammed seven fours as Bengal struggled to interrupt the partnership. Bengal deputy sports activities minister Manoj Tiwary, who returned to motion after his foray into politics, lastly broke the partnership together with his part-time spin.
Thyagarajan took an edge to be caught by Abhishek Porel behind the stumps and it was only a matter of time earlier than Hyderabad folded for 205 in 80 overs. Earlier, Bengal medium pacer Mukesh Kumar was on music and raced to 4/49 as Hyderabad struggled after resuming the day on 15/2.
“We have been attempting to get the remaining after decreasing Hyderabad to 70/7 however the wicket grew to become a lot simpler to bat on as the sport progressed. We needed to work laborious to get wickets, whereas the pitch grew to become flat,” Mukesh Kumar said after the end of day’s play. “This wicket is different from the last match, we knew things would get hard for us as the game progressed so our (pacers’) plan was to get as many wickets we can in earlier in the day.” Bengal, of their second essay, misplaced opener Sudip Gharami (0) of the third ball after he was castled by Rakshann Reddi.
Skipper Abhimanyu Easwaran was unbeaten on 10 together with Ritwik Roy Chowdhury (3) at stumps on day two. “Our batters should set a superb complete, the wicket will develop into troublesome for bowlers within the subsequent two days, we’ll give our greatest to win this,” Mukesh added.
Brief Scores: =========
At Barabati Stadium: Bengal 242 and 16/1; 8 overs. Hyderabad 205; 80 overs (T Ravi Teja 81 not out, Tanay Thyagarajan 52; Mukesh Kumar 4/49). Match to continue. At Vikas Cricket Ground: Chandigarh 168. Baroda 398/7; 107 overs (Vishnu Solanki 103 batting, Jyotsnil Singh 96, Pratyush Kumar 43). Match to continue.
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