Pramod Chandila

Bengal skipper Manoj Tiwary will lead a 16-member East Zone squad for the Inter-Zonal Syed Mushtaq Ali Twenty20 meet to be held in Mumbai from February 12.

Like all others, nine Bengal players will also have their fingers crossed when a total pool of 351 players will go under the hammers in the IPL player's auction in Bengaluru on Monday.

Young Sumit Kumar produced a scintillating all-round performance as Haryana defeated Baroda by 58 runs in the Elite Group B match of the Vijay Hazare Trophy National One-Day tournament on Saturday.

Former India U-19 captain Jonty Sidhu hit a run-a-ball hundred while skipper Pradeep Sangwan grabbed a five wicket haul as Delhi beat Haryana by 10 runs in an exciting Group C league game of the Vijay Hazare Trophy on Sunday.

India pacer Navdeep Saini helped Delhi bundle out Haryana for 154 but rain forced them to share points for the second day in a row in the Vijay Hazare Trophy on Wednesday.

Left-arm spinner Tinu Kundu grabbed five wickets as Haryana staged a remarkable comeback to take an upper hand in their Ranji Trophy Elite Group C match against Odisha on Sunday.

Shreevats Goswami powered Bengal to a five-wicket win over Jharkhand and emerge zonal toppers with an all-win record, while Assam defeated Odisha by six wickets to finish runners-up in the East Zone Twenty20 League.

Adamas Howrah Warriors staged a stunning comeback to outclass Rashmi Medinipur Wizards by five wickets in a match that went all the way down to the wire in the Bengal Pro T20 League at the Eden Gardens on Friday night.

Tamil Nadu skipper Vijay Shankar made an impressive return from injury by smashing a blistering 99-ball 129, inclusive of seven sixes, to power the team to a comprehensive 130-run win over Assam in the Vijay Hazare Trophy Elite Group 'C' league on Thursday.

The Bengal Under-23 side will miss Abhimanyu Easwaran as he rejoined the senior Bengal team for the upcoming Vijay Hazare Trophy (One-dayers) meet beginning next week.

It cannot get closer than this as Adamas Howrah Warriors edged past Shrachi Rarh Tigers by just one run in the Bengal Pro T20 League in a high-scoring thriller at the Eden Gardens here on Monday. The win helped the Warriors catch up with Lux Shyam Kolkata Tigers as both teams gathered eight points from seven games. However, Avishek Porel-led Kolkata Tigers edged past Anustup Majumdar-led Warriors for a place in the semis, thanks to their better net run-rate.

Captain Gautam Gambhir smashed 104 off 72 balls after left-arm pacer Kulwant Khejroliya ran through the Haryana batting with a hat-trick to set-up a five-wicket win, sending Delhi into the semifinals of the Vijay Hazare Trophy on Sunday.

Rajasthan, who conceded the first-innings lead to hosts Jharkhand, made a splendid comeback in their second essay in their Elite Group C Ranji Trophy match Thursday.

Shreevats Goswami and Vivek Singh maintained their red-hot form and set up a six-wicket win for Bengal against Jharkhand in the Syed Mushtaq Ali (East Zone) T20 meet at the JSCA stadium in Ranchi on Friday.

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.

Into their second domestic season, Chandigarh will get first-hand experience of playing in the Elite Group, when they open their Vijay Hazare Trophy campaign against neighbours Haryana in a Group E clash in Kolkata on Sunday.

A six-wicket haul by debutante left-arm medium-pacer Mujtaba Yousuf helped Jammu and Kashmir gain the upperhand against Haryana, despite a fighting ton by Pramod Chandila, on the second day of their Ranji Trophy Group C match on Thursday.

It was so near yet so far for Bengal. In spite of making the last four, the team's campaign ended in a sour note as they caved in within three days to go down to Delhi in the Ranji Trophy semifinals last month.

Bihar's left-arm spinner Ashutosh Aman watched Rohit Sharma score the winning runs - a boundary struck between mid-on and midwicket - and shadow practised the shot. There was little else Aman or any of his teammates could do.

A seven-wicket haul by Jayant Yadav helped Haryana bounce back into contention on the third day of their Ranji Trophy Group C match against Jammu and Kashmir on Friday.