da betsul： BPL Sports Club took the honours over the young National CricketAcademy (NCA) side at the end of the second day’s play in the openingmatch of the Coromandel Cement Cup tournament in Bangalore on Sunday
Staff Reporter22-Jul-2009BPL Sports Club took the honours over the young National CricketAcademy (NCA) side at the end of the second day’s play in the openingmatch of the Coromandel Cement Cup tournament in Bangalore on Sunday.BPL Sports Club secured a useful first innings lead of 55 beforefurther extending the advantage to 116 as they finished with 61/1 off13 overs in their second essay.Beginning the second day on 12 for no loss with highly spoken aboutopeners Gautam Gambhir and Vinayak Mane at the crease, the NCA sideadded a further 28 runs before Mane fell to C Raghu with the score on40. Mane made just 10. Gambhir went on to make 65, adding 66 for thesecond wicket with GI Singh. The aggressive Delhi southpaw struck nineboundaries.The fall of Gambhir’s wicket ushered in the beginning of a slow end tothe NCA challenge. GI Singh (36) and Ishan Ganda (25) were the onlyplayers to make noteworthy contributions as the NCA side lost wicketsat regular intervals to be all out for 204. For BPL Sports Club, leftarm spinner Anand Katti was the pick of the bowlers, returning figuresof 4/35 off his 23 overs.The fact that the second innings is restricted to 40 overs a sidemakes the lead of 116 a rather healthy one. At the crease for BPLSports Club were Adithya Mishra (27) and Yerre Goud (10).