Buchi Babu tournament: Bengal claims 68-run win over TNCA XI
The HinduBengal coach Pranab Roy asked for TNCA XI coach Lakshmipathy Balaji to give a pep talk to his squad at the end of day’s play on Monday and Balaji obliged. On Tuesday, Bengal seemed pumped up throughout as fine bowling efforts from off-spinner Toufik Uddin Mondal and left-arm spinner Vaibhav Yadav enabled it to bowl out TNCA XI for 138 in its second innings and clinch a morale-boosting 68-run win on day three of the Group-D match in the Buchi Babu All India invitational cricket tournament at the India Cement Company ground here. Unlike TNCA XI that had a 9-day gap between its first match and this one, Bengal only had a three-day gap. Earlier in the day, Toufik, who resumed from his overnight 52, got to 90 to help Bengal get to 241 and set TNCA a 207-run target.