Baroda restrict Kiwis in Buchi Babu cricket

Chennai, August 22: New Zealand A were restricted to 240 all out in 86.5 overs by Baroda, who, in reply, were five without loss on the first day of the final round of league matches in the Buchi Babu All-India cricket tournament here Saturday.
Meanwhile, Prasant Naik (93) propped up Mumbai, who were all out for 230 in 80.4 overs against Karnataka in another league fixture.

Tamil Nadu, who are out of the reckoning for a semi-final spot, chalked up a fluent six-wicket win against Himachal Pradesh who were dismissed for 152 and the hosts cantered home in just 35.5 overs.

Brief Scores:

Himachal Pradesh 152 all out in 47.3 overs (Paras Dogra 47, Rishi Dhawan 53, K.Koushik 3/33, R Ashwin 3/40) lost to Tamil Nadu 156 for 4 in 35.5 overs (Abhinav Mukund 64).

Assam 257 all out in 74.4 overs (Parvez Aziz 38, Shiv Shankar Roy 96, Deepak Sharma 31, Asif Ali 3/71, Rameez Khan 4/11) vs Madhya Pradesh 22 without loss in 8 overs.

Vidarbha 238 all out in 88.4 overs (Amit Punikar 37, Ranjit Paradkar 52, Shalab Srivastava not out 104, M.Suresh Babu 6/54) vs TNCA President’s XI 11 without loss in 6 overs.

Mumbai 230 all out in 80.4 overs (Prashant Naik 93, Sushant Marathe 34, K.P.Appanna 4/77, A.Mithun 3/29) vs Karnataka 16 without loss in 7 overs.

New Zealand A 240 all out in 86.5 overs (Peter Fulton 40, Neil Broom 36, Gareth Hopkins 53, Kyle Mills 33, Murtuza Vohra 5/34, Viswanath Parmar 4/69) vs Baroda 5 without loss in one over.

Tamil Nadu Combined Districts 333 for 9 in 90 overs (K.B.Arun Karthick 55, R.Thalaivan Sargunam 45, R.Srinivasan 47, K.Sriram 37, K.Varun Kumar 48, C.Suresh 46, G.Sankara Rao 6/66) vs Andhra.

Saurashtra 329 all out in 89.4 overs (Jayesh N.Shah 49, Chirag Pathak 33, Ravindra Jadeja 53, Pratik S.Mehta 89, Kamlesh Makwana 3/108, Niranjan behera 3/43) vs Orissa.

Kerala 238 all out in 89.2 overs (Robert Fernandez 96, Arjun 67, Sanju Samson not out 32, M.A. Khader 3/33 and Ahmed Quadri 3/27) vs Hyderabad.

—IANS