Abu Nechim

A four-wicket haul by pacer Abu Nechim Ahmed and half century by Sibsankar Roy kept Assam in hunt for a berth in the main round as they downed Tripura by 11 runs in the East Zone league for the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy.

Assam will be led by medium pacer Abu Nechim Ahmed, as Orissa and Bengal too have named their respective squads for 2011 edition of the Buchi Babu cricket tournament.

Gautam Gambhir started his new season in the right earnest with a patient century as Delhi made a pedestrian Assam attack toil by reaching 269/4 at stumps on the second day of the Ranji Trophy group A encounter.

Left-arm pacer Barinder Sran and Bipul Sharma claimed three wickets apiece as Chandigarh defeated Assam by 21 runs to register their third consecutive win in the Plate Group of Vijay Hazare Trophy one-day cricket tournament on Friday.

Riding on Amit Verma's all-round performance, Assam got the better of Jharkhand by four wickets in a Syed Mushtaq Ali East Zone Twenty20 match here at the Eden Gardens.

Manipur pacers put up a fine exhibition of seam bowling to defeat Arunachal Pradesh by an innings and 25 runs in their Ranji Trophy Plate group fixture at Calcutta Cricket and Football Club ground here on Saturday.

Odisha were comfortably placed at 150/2 after Assam were were all out for 301 in their Group B Ranji Trophy cricket match on Monday.

Skipper Saurabh Tiwary (88) and Ishank Jaggi (80 not out) scored half-centuries each as Jharkhand reached 251 for four against Assam on the opening day of a Group B Ranji Trophy match on Tuesday.

As part of the 19th edition of Techniche - IIT-Guwahati's annual techno-management festival - the Guwahati Half Marathon was organized here this week.

The moment you speak to Abu Nechim Ahmed, what comes across is his honesty and soft-spoken nature. Hours after announcing his retirement from all forms of cricket, the former U19 World Cupper and Assam medium pacer was nonchalant to say it was the right time to make way for the youngsters.

Without the services of the likes of KL Rahul and Robin Uthappa, Karnataka will be banking on their second line players to start the Ranji Trophy campaign on a winning note when they take on Assam on Saturday.

The Tamil Nadu Cricket Association, its President XI side, defending champions Karnataka and Andhra have qualified for the quarterfinals of the All India Buchi Babu Cricket tournament.

After three days of complete domination, hosts KSCA XI closed in on an innings victory over Assam Cricket Association in the Dr Thimmappaiah Memorial all-India cricket tournament at the M Chinnaswamy stadium on Monday.

Jharkhand took a massive 591-run first innings lead but decided to bat again instead of enforcing follow-on as their Ranji Trophy pre-quarterfinal against Plate group toppers Nagaland dragged on the penultimate day at the Eden Gardens on Tuesday.

Karnataka began their 2017 Ranji Trophy campaign with a bang without their big guns like Manish Pandey and KL Rahul, defeating Assam by an innings and 121 runs in the Group A match here.

Karnataka were staring at an outright win after they restricted Assam to 169 for six when the third day's play of the Group A Ranji Trophy match was stopped due to bad weather here.

Aged 17 years and 175 days, Parag broke the record of his Rajasthan Royals' team-mate Sanju Samson, who had become the Indian Premier League's youngest half-centurion in 2013, at the age of 18 years and 169 days.

Tamil Nadu and Bengal will fancy their chances of progressing to the quarterfinal stage of the Vijay Hazare Trophy when the Group C fixtures kick off on Wednesday.

Nagaland rode on veteran wicketkeeper-batter Chetan Bist's all-round show to down Sikkim by six wickets in their Ranji Trophy plate group opener on Sunday. The former Rajasthan glovesman slammed 115 and took eight catches behind the stumps as Nagaland chased down 174 in 40 overs to pocket six points.

The preparatory camp of Kolkata Tigers, one of the six teams featuring in the T20 venture of ICL, is all set to be held at the Cricket and Football Club in Kolkata.

Lahore Badshahs have another chance to get into the groove as they take on Royal Bengal Tigers in the ICL Twenty20 Championship on Sunday.

Opener Mayank Agarwal led Karnataka's strong batting performance with a brisk 84 as they thrashed Assam by 111 runs in a Group A Vijay Hazare Trophy match on Thursday.

Sarul Kanwar (47) and Gurkeerat Singh (62) came up with an aggressive century stand to overhaul Assam's score in just 11 overs.

Punjab demolished a hapless Assam by nine wickets with nine overs to spare to storm into the quarterfinals of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Twenty20 All India knockout tournament at the Brabourne Stadium on Friday.

Bengal have a job on hand as they begin their campaign in the Syed Mushtaq Ali (T20) meet with a match against Assam in Mumbai on Friday.

Unlike last year, when most of the Indian stars were busy with the inaugural Champions League, this year's Challenger Trophy has increased significance.

Jeremy Lalrinnunga has been flirting with sporting immortality even before becoming a teenager, and if the early signs are correct, he could become the first Indian to win a Youth Olympic gold medal, come Monday.

Skipper Laxmi Ratan Shukla struck an unbeaten 53 to set up former champions Bengal's 44-run win over Assam in the East Zone league match for the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy.