Hyderabad qualified for the semifinals of the Buchi Babu Invitational Tournament, topping Group ‘D’ after beating Madhya Pradesh (MP) by an innings and 59 runs on the second day of the fixture at the AM Jain College in Chennai on Wednesday. MP failed to overturn the 233-run first innings deficit and could only manage 174…
B. Sachin smashed a quickfire century (115, 110b, 7×4, 5×6) to help TNCA XI pull off a heist and beat Mumbai by two wickets in a close game that went down to the wire on the final day of the first round Buchi Babu tournament match here on Wednesday. Mumbai resumed its second innings on…
Left-arm spinners bowling with a diagonal run-up are a rare sight nowadays. Nishant Sindhu not only ran in that way, he bowled Haryana to a 100-run win over Bengal in their opening fixture of the Buchi Babu Invitational Tournament at the AM Jain College in Chennai on Wednesday. Sindhu claimed six for 39 and helped…
In this year’s Buchi Babu Invitational Tournament, teams have only 90 overs to bat in their first innings — a format that blends the characteristics of First Class and List A. Under those constraints, even Anustup Mazumdar’s authoritative century and Sumanta Gupta’s fighting 98 could not prevent Bengal from conceding a 34-run lead to Haryana…