Eden Gardens Invitation Tournament

[Tiger Manc]

Originally Posted by Eshen
East Zone lost in Duleep semi, so Bengal players are back to play for their state.

CAB Squad:
Laxmi Ratan Shukla (c), Arindam Das, Sreevats Goswami, Rohan Banerjee, Dibyendu Chakraborty, Subhajit Banerjee, Manoj Tiwary, Veer Pratap Singh, Mohammad Ashrafuddin, Iresh Saxena, Sudeep Chatterjee, Saurasish Lahiri, Avijit Singh, Kanishk Seth, Ashok Dinda, Avilin Ghosh, Aamir Gani.

Is that for real!?

[Eshen]

Arindam Das leads Bengal to six-wicket victory over Karnataka

Arindam Das struck an unbeaten 84 while Manoj Tiwary played a crucial 40-run knock to steer Bengal to a comfortable six-wicket win over Karnataka in the opening match of the CAB S K Acharya Memorial Trophy one-day tournament, here today.

Put into bat, Karnataka batsmen struggled on the seaming wicket of JU second campus ground in Salt Lake as they were bowled out for 181 in 43.5 overs with Bengal pacer Veer Pratap Singh taking two wickets for 29 run in his seven overs.

It was then left for the Bengal spin duo of Iresh Saxena and Saurasish Lahiri to run through the Karnataka line-up with three wickets each.

Bengal hardly had any difficulty with Das playing the sheet anchor role in his 113-ball 84 not out with seven boundaries but it was Tiwary who sizzled in the gloomy day with his quickfire 40 studded with one four and one six.

After Tiwary’s dismissal, wicketkeeper batsman Shreevats Goswami (33 not out from 47 balls) extended Das a fine support to see Bengal through with 9.3 overs to spare.

Brief Scores:

KSCA 181 in 43.5 overs (Shishir Bhavane 39; Iresh Saxena 3 for 29, Saurasish Lahiri 3 for 47) lost to CAB 185/4 in 40.3 overs (Arindam Das 84*, Manoj Tiwary 40, Shreevats Goswami 33*) by 6 wickets

[Eshen]

Their only star player missing is Wriddhiman Saha, who will be Dhoni's replacement for upcoming Ind-SL ODI series. So, CAB really got a strong team up there.

[riajul]

Mumbai have won the toss and elected bowl first. BCB XI 14/2 after 7 overs.

Source: BCB's Tweet.

Posted via BC Mobile Edition (Opera Mobile)

[Eshen]

Scorecard

BCB XI shot out for 139. Highest scorer is Elias Sunny with 40 runs, second highest Arafat Sunny 24 runs. Both Imrul and Anamul, opening the innings, went for ducks.

Mumbai 24/0 after 6 overs.

[Habib]

When a noob like Elias Sunny top scores for your team, you know you are effed.

[NoName]

LOL

[Gowza]

horrible showing by the BCB XI

[Eshen]

BCB lost the match by 8 wickets. Raju and Arafat each took one wicket. -bdnews24

[mufi_02]

Anamul (0), Kayes (0), Naeem (4), Nasir (10)

Shamsur and Hom can feel pretty safe now

[Eshen]

^^Two more matches still to be played in this tournament, well ahead of start of the 2nd Test. Kopa and Hom should not count their chickens yet.

[Fazal]

Nasir thought getting dropped from national team to team-A was embarrassing for a player like his caliber. Now what will be his reaction when he will be dropped from the team-A?

its a wake-up tournament for him...porecho tou morecho.

[Vua]

138 from 41 overs.
BCB A team is also as bad as our Natl team!

[Nadim]

This tournament is useless so don't care who does what. Just look at the pitch. Never seen such a bad pitch

[BD_TigerZ]

Imrul scored a ton nasir with 56 and bijoy 4.

[simon]

bring back Kaedge ekkhoni !

[Eshen]

BCB vs Karnataka

Karnataka chased the score down with 5 wickets in hand.

[Tiger444]

Originally Posted by simon
bring back Kaedge ekkhoni !

Hate to say this but Imrul is another Tushar Imran and Farhad Reza. Hero in the A team but zero in the national team. Imrul's not as bad as Reza or Tushar but he's proven he's not good enough. Still can't forget how horrendous his approach was in WI.

[Rana Melb]

Bcb scorecard please..

[Eshen]

Only positive out of those two matches is that Anamul kept wicket for both matches (on subsequent days) and hopefully will be ready to take gloves from Mushfiq for the 2nd Test against Zimbabwe (if the management want to take that route), so Mushfiq can bat higher up the order.

[jeesh]

Are these even Indian B team level players we are up against?

[hoodlum]

Why bench Abul & Taskin?

[Eshen]

Originally Posted by hoodlum
Why bench Abul & Taskin?

Back to back day matches, perhaps the management did not want to risk those two pacers who still need to work on their endurance?

Kamrul looks hopeless in all the opportunities he is given so far. Why not pick Abu Jayed, who have better domestic stats to back him?

[Eshen]

Also how is that Muktar Ali spent both days on bench? I thought he was in consideration for national team call up, now he is not good enough even for A-team XI?!

[Tiger444]

Unfortunately BCB will never get it. Our A team consistently losing against 2nd string state sides in India and county sides against England is not a fluke. Jus goes to show we lack the quality to be up amongst the big boys and will continue to do so if changes aren't made in domestics.