Published: Nov 23, 2015, 08:30 AM (IST)
Edited: Aug 31, 2016, 04:51 PM (IST)
Hello and welcome to CricketCountry’s live coverage of Day One of the Group C game of the 2015-16 edition of Ranji Trophy between Hyderabad and Tripura at Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Hyderabad. While Tripura is at the bottom of table with four losses and two draws from six games, while the hosts have drawn five and lost one game and are just above Tripura with five points in their account. Hyderabad’s previous fixture was against Services and that match had ended in a draw with the latter taking a first innings lead which gave them three points, while the visitors had to settle for just one point. Complete coverage of Ranji Trophy 2015-16
Live cricket scores Hyderabad 263/2Â Overs 90 | Batting: Hanuma Vihari 94(217), B Anirudh 75(127): Hanuma Vihari and B Anirudh were batting well in tandem at close of play on day one. Vihari was just six short of his hundred while Anirudh was batting on 75. Vihari struck 10 boundaries and a six in his knock while Anirudh slammed eight boundaries and two shots for the maximum. This day belonged to Hyderabad.
Live cricket scores Hyderabad 183/2Â Overs 66.3 | Batting: Hanuma Vihari 53(136), B Anirudh 37(67):Â Tanmay Agarwal is unfortunate to get out for just five short of his half century. Hyderabad’s captain Hanuma Vihari has reached his hundred. He has struck seven boundaries in his knock so far. B Anirudh is batting on 35 at other end. Anirudh has hit four shots to the fence and a six. Their partnership is now worth 71 runs. Tripura needs to pick a few more quick wickets to get back into the match. OUT! Tanmay Agarwal 35(124) c NN Sen Choudhury b TS Saha 45(130)
Live cricket scores Hyderabad 102/1 Overs 41 | Batting: Tanmay Agarwal 35(124), Hanuma Vihari 18(60): Tanmay Agarwal is batting very patiently on 35 at a strike rate of 28.23. He has struck four boundaries so far. Barring Mura Singh, none of Tripura bowlers have bowled well. A lot of batting is still to come. Tripura needs wickets. Hanuma Vihari, who is batting at the other end has hit two shots to the fence so far. Hyderabad is a strong team at home and Tripura should know this. Tripura bowlers need to bring more variations in their bowling— with speed, line and length , swing and turn since they are not getting wickets by the conventional approach of bowling in the right areas only.
Live cricket scores Hyderabad 70/1 Overs 25.4 | Batting: Tanmay Agarwal 21(79), Hanuma Vihari 0(9): Akshath Reddy gets out after a well played 40. Akshath struck seven boundaries in his knock. Hanuma Vihari has come to the middle after Akshath’s dismissal.. Having faced nine balls, he is yet to get off the mark. Hyderabad is batting at a run rate of 2.67. Ravi Kiran is next in the batting order unless the captain decides otherwise. Tripura needs wickets because they know that they do not have a strong batting lineup. OUT! Akshath Reddy c Sen Choudhury b MB Mura Singh 40(71)
Live cricket scores Hyderabad 27/0Â Overs 11 | Batting: Tanmay Agarwal 15(38), Akshath Reddy 5(31): Hyderabad’s openers are looking settled after the end of 11 overs. Batting sensibly and with discipline both are trying to get the shine off the new ball to make batting easier after an hour. Tanmay Agarwal, who is batting on 15 has struck two boundaries while Akshath Reddy has hit one. Hyderabad is batting at a decent run rate of 2.70
TOSS: Tripura have won the toss and they will be fielding first against Hyderabad in this away clash in the Ranji Trophy 2015-16 Group C.
Playing XI:
Hyderabad: Hanuma Vihari (C), Ravi Kiran, CV Milind, Mehdi Hasan, Akshath Reddy, Tanmay Agarwal, B Sandeep, Himalay Agarwal, Sumanth Kolla (W), B Anirudh, Vishal Sharma
Tripura: Rana Datta, KK Acharjee (C), MB Mura Singh, NN Sen Choudhury (W), Parvinder Singh, Saurabh Das, TS Saha, UU Bose, Arindam Das, SC Das, VIRAG AWATE
On the other hand, Tripura once again faced a heavy defeat. Jharkand defeated them outright by an innings and 67 runs. The hosts got bowled out for 166, batting first which was followed by Jharkand declaring at 394 for 4. In reply to that Tripura got bundled out for 161 on the final day, handing the visitors an excellent victory and crucial seven points.
Squads:
Hyderabad: Hanuma Vihari (c), Vishal Sharma, Tanmay Agarwal, Anwar Ahmed, Akash Bhandari, Chama Milind, Bavanaka Sandeep, Sudeep Tyagi, Habeeb Ahmed, Himalay Agarwal, Balchander Anirudh, Ashish Reddy, Mehdi Hasan, Akshath Reddy, Tirumalsetti Suman, Kolla Sumanth (wk), Danny Dereck Prince, Syed Quadri
Tripura: Abhijit Dey, Arindam Das, Subash Chakraborty, Manisankar Murasingh, Rana Dutta, Abhijit Sarkar, Nirupam Sen Chowdhary, Kaushal Acharjee (c), Udiyan Bose (wk), Saurabh Das, Parvinder Singh, Tushar Saha, Nirupam Sen, Rakesh Solanki, Subhrajit Roy, Swapan Das, Rajib Saha, T Mandal
