TN Districts win Buchi Babu Trophy 2009

Tamil Nadu Combined Districts XI beat Hyderabad XI by seven wickets to clinch their maiden Buchi Babu Memorial Trophy 2009.

Brief score:

Hyderabad XI 154 all out in 78.4 overs
(Abhinav Kumar 30, Benjamin Thomas 19, Arjun Yadav 17, Ahmed Quadri 25, Pragyan Ojha 18, SM Shoaib 17, Amol Shinde 16; Suresh Kumar 6/35, Sivakumar 1/23, R Jesuraj 1/27)

TN Combined Districts XI 156 for 3 in 38.3 overs (KB Arun Karthick 68, Thalaivan Surgunam 24, R Srinivasan not out 31, S Sriram not out 20; Pragyan Ojha 2 for 58, Vishal Sharma 1/41).

Buchi Babu cricket tournament at Chennai

Zone A: TNCA XI, Assam, Madhya Pradesh, and Himachal Pradesh.
Zone B: New Zealand ‘A’, Andhra, Combined Districts, and Baroda.
Zonw C: Karnataka, TNCA President’s XI, Vidarbha, and Mumbai.
Zone D: Saurashtra, Hyderabad, Kerala, and Orissa.

Schedule:

First round: August 16 & 17. Second round: August 19 & 20.
Third round: August 22 & 23.
Semifinals: August 25 & 26.
Final: August 28 & 29.

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