Spinners Jivesh, Shubham trouble TNCA Prez’s XI

Chennai: Left-arm spinner Jivesh Bhutte and leggie Shubham Agarwal combined to pick up nine wickets as Chhattisgarh earned a 62-run first-innings lead against TNCA President’s XI on the second day of the Buchi Babu Invitational Tournament Group A match in Coimbatore on Monday.Jivesh finished with a five-wicket haul while Shubham bagged a hat-trick to bundle TNCA President’s XI out for 208. At close of play, Chhattisgarh stood at 107 for three in their second essay, holding a 169-run lead. In the Group D match in Tirunelveli, TNCA XI secured the first-innings advantage, despite CAB XI left-arm spinner Vaibhav Yadav’s five-wicket haul.In the Group C contest in Salem, Prasad Pawar put Mumbai on top against Jammu and Kashmir with an unbeaten hundred, which was laced with 16 fours and a six. Brief scores: At Coimbatore: Group A: Chhattisgarh 270 & 107/3 in 32 overs (Anuj Tiwari 58*). TNCA President’s XI 208 in 59.5 overs (Shubham Agarwal 4/59, Jivesh Bhutte 5/69). At Dindigul: Group B: Madhya Pradesh 440 in 132.1 overs (Shubham Sharma 164, Aniket Verma 94, Anshul Kamboj 3/77, Amit Rana 3/127). Haryana 111/2 in 45 overs (Ankit Kumar 57*). At Salem: Group C: Jammu & Kashmir 285/9 decl. in 106.2 overs (Qamran Iqbal 58, Abid Mushtaq 58, Royston Dias 3/55). Mumbai 245/3 in 69 overs (Angkrish Raghuvanshi 52, Prasad Pawar 134*). At Tirunelveli: Group D: CAB XI 193 & 186/7 in 55 overs (Shashank Singh 59, Toufik Uddin Mondal 52*, M Siddharth 3/66). TNCA XI 228 in 65.5 overs (Shahrukh Khan 52, Vaibhav Yadav 5/63, Amrit Raj Uppadhyay 3/38).