Cooch Behar U-19 Cricket Tournament
Excelsior Sports Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 6: After a splendid bowling display by left-arm spinner Javid Ahmed and left-arm medium pacer Mujtaba Yousuf in the first innings, right-arm leg-spinner Govind Sharma scalped 5 important wickets to help Jammu and Kashmir crush Tripura by a huge margin of 247 runs in the Cooch Behar Under-19 Boys Cricket Tournament at Country Cricket Stadium, here today.
Chasing a huge total of 413 runs, Tripura resumed their innings at overnight score of 132/7, bundled out for 165 runs to lose the match by a big margin. Govind Sharma was the pick of the bowlers, who took 5 wickets by conceding 47 runs in 15 overs, while first innings hero Javid Ahmed took 2 wickets. The medium pace duo of Rasikh Salam and Mujtaba Yousuf claimed one wicket each. Babul Dey (28) and Skipper Sankar Paul (23) were the main contributors from Tripura.
The Jammu and Kashmir team is being accompanied by Syed Israr as manager, Ashiq Aziz as Assistant Manager, Suresh Singh as Coach, Asif Jeelani as batting coach, Anoop Mangotra as bowling coach, Wani Burhan as Physio and Dalbir Singh as trainer.
Brief Scores: J&K 1st innings 232 (Musaif Ajaz 61 Jiyaad Magray 51 Amit Ali 3/42); Tripura 1st innings 148 (Riaz Uddain 45 Arup Datta 33 Javid Ahmed 5/23 Mujtaba Yousuf 4/42) J&K 2nd innings 328 (Kanaihya Wadhawan 77 Musaif Ajaz 56 Qamran Iqbal 46 ) Tripura 2nd innings 165 (Babul Dey 28 Govind Sharma 5/47 Javid Ahmed 2/27).
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