Buchi Babu tournament: TNCA XI in control after bundling out Bengal for 193 on opening day
The HinduLeg-spinner Jhathavedh Subramanyan picked up three for 12 in five overs and pacer Ajay K. Krishnan, left-arm spinner M. Siddharth, and off-spinner Shahrukh Khan claimed two wickets each as TNCA XI bowled out Bengal for 193 on day one of the Group-D match in the Buchi Babu All India invitational cricket tournament at the India Cement Company ground here on Sunday. TNCA had four wickets, while Bengal’s 19-year-old Shashank Singh brought up his fifty in the first session. In the absence of pacer Yudheeswaran, from the first match versus Kerala, medium-pacer Nidhish S. Rajagopal stepped up to bowl five overs and get a wicket - southpaw Toufik Uddin Mondal miscued his pull off a shorter ball for Shahrukh to position himself for its landing at the first slip. Shashank hit four sixes - pulled Saravana Kumar, hit Siddharth twice down the ground and once over deep midwicket.