Ranji Trophy: Tanay runs through Bengal batting, Hyderabad end Day One at 15/2

Hyderabad: Left-arm spinner Tanay Thyagarajan returned with 5-71 bowling figures as Hyderabad dismissed Bengal for 242 runs in their first innings on the opening day of the Group B Ranji Trophy match at the Barabati Stadium in Cuttack, on Thursday. Inviting the opposition to bat first, Hyderabad bowlers did a commendable job to restrict the […]

Hyderabad: Left-arm spinner Tanay Thyagarajan returned with 5-71 bowling figures as Hyderabad dismissed Bengal for 242 runs in their first innings on the opening day of the Group B Ranji Trophy match at the Barabati Stadium in Cuttack, on Thursday.

Inviting the opposition to bat first, Hyderabad bowlers did a commendable job to restrict the opposition to a low total. Player of the match from the first match against Chandigarh T Ravi Teja scalped three wickets (3/48) while B Punnaiah, who came in for injured CV Milind, took 2/32. However, Hyderabad lost two quick wickets in Akshath Reddy (0) and Thakur Tilak Varma (0) to end the day at 15/2. Bengal’s Mukesh Kumar took both the wickets. Hyderabad are still trailing by 227 runs.

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Earlier, Ravi Teja struck in his first over removing AB Easwaran when the right-arm pacer castled the batter’s wickets. Punnaih then got rid of Sudip Kumar (14) in the 11th over. Ritwhik Roy (33) and Sayan Shekhar Manal (34) tried to rebuild the innings for Bengal with a 47-run partnership for the third wicket before the former was removed by Tanay as his first scalp in the day.

Punnaia got his second wicket when he forced an edge off Sayan to wicketkeeper Prateek Reddy in the 42nd over while Ravi Taje trapped Anustup Majumdar in front of the wicket to reduce the opposition to 114/5. Tanay tightened the noose removing Manoj Tiwary cheaply as Bengal were struggling at 116/6. However, Abhishek Porel (73 off 62; 10×4) and Shahbaz (40 off 61; 2×4) played counter-attacking knocks to add 74 runs for the seventh wicket to revive Bengal innings.

Tanay broke the partnership when he removed Shahbaz but Abhishek added another 40 runs for the eighth wicket with Akash Deep to take his side past 200-run mark. Ravi Teja then uprooted the stumps of Abhishek in the 70th over before Tahany scalped his fifth dismissing Ishan Porel to wrap up the innings.

Scorecard:
Bengal: Sudip Kumar Gharami c †Prateek Reddy b Punnaiah 14 (28b, 3×4), Abhimanyu Easwaran (c) b Ravi Teja 0 (4b), Ritwik Roy Chowdhury c Punnaiah b Thyagarajan 33 (83b, 3×4), Sayan Mondal c †Prateek Reddy b Punnaiah 34 (98b, 4×4, 1×6), Anustup Majumdar lbw b Ravi Teja 29 (51b, 2×4), Manoj Tiwary c †Prateek Reddy b Thyagarajan 2 (13b), Shahbaz Ahmed c †Prateek Reddy b Thyagarajan 40 (61b, 2×4), Abhisek Banerjee † b Ravi Teja 73 (62b, 10×4), Akash Deep b Thyagarajan 13 (20b, 2×4), Ishan Porel c TD Agarwal b Thyagarajan 0 (3b), Mukesh Kumar not out 0 (0b); Extras: (b 1, lb 2, nb 1) 4; Total: (All out in 70.2 overs) 242; Fall of wickets: 1-4, 2-24, 3-71, 4-107, 5-114, 6-116, 7-190, 8-230, 9-242; Bowling: Rakshann Readdi 18-4-62-0, Ravi Teja 16.5-6-48-3, B Punnaiah 12.1-3-32-2, Tanay Thyagarajan 18.2-0-71-5, Mickil Jaiswal 5-0-26-0

Hyderabad: Tanmay Agarwal (c) batting 5 (24b, 1×4), Akshath Reddy c †Abhisek Banerjee b Mukesh Kumar 0 (4b), Tilak Varma b Mukesh Kumar 0 (3b), Himalay Agarwal batting 10 (23b, 1×4); Extras: 0; Total: (For 2 wkts in 9 overs) 15; Fall of wickets: 1-4, 2-4; Bowling: Ishan Porel 3-1-7-0, Mukesh Kumar 4-3-3-2, Akash Deep 2-1-5-0

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