Cooch Behar Trophy: Hyderabad has Tripura on mat

Hyderabad: After fireworks from the batting department, Hyderabad bowlers too joined the party to push Tripura on backfoot after bowling them out in the first innings and enforcing follow-on in their Cooch Behar Trophy Under 19 second round Group ‘D’ league match at the Gymkhana ground on Tuesday.

Resuming the third day’s play at 46 for 2, none of the Tripura’s batsman could stay long at the crease except Tanmoy Das as Ratan Teja and Ajay Dev Goud kept taking wickets at regular intervals to bowl out the north eastern state for 155. Ratan Teja picked 4 for 22 while Ajay Dev Goud claimed three victims.

Brief scores (day-3): Hyderabad 633/4 declared in 155 overs vs Tripura 155 in 78 overs (Tanmoy Das 68, Ajay Dev Goud 3/47, Ratan Teja 4/22) & follow on 95/2 in 35 overs (S.S. Paul 52 batting, D. B. Bebbarma 14 batting).