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Bengal have to negate Azhar factor
CHENNAI, JANUARY 13: For sure, Mohammed Azharuddin will be keen to have one more go at one of his favourite venues. The Wills Trophy semi-...
January 14, 2000 12:00 AM IST
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CHENNAI, JANUARY 13: For sure, Mohammed Azharuddin will be keen to have one more go at one of his favourite venues. The Wills Trophy semi-final between Board President8217;s XI and Bengal at Chepauk on Friday has an added significance for the Board skipper.
For TN medium-pacer Thirunavukkarasu Kumaran, unceremoniously dumped from the tour of Australia, this will be a big chance to stake his claim again. The MRF product, along with Shiv Sundar Das, played stellar roles in BP XI8217;s emphatic win over Mumbai in the quarter-finals at Bangalore.
Utpal optimistic: Bengal had an impressive outing here in their quarterfinals against Punjab. The team8217;s soft spoken skipper Utpal Chatterjee hoped for an interesting contest. 8220;We have a good side to counter the fancied opposition. We are going with a positive mind.8221;
The match is a benefit tie for former Tamil Nadu player K Bharath Kumar.
Teams from: Board President8217;s XI: Mohammed Azharuddin capt, Shiv Sundar Das, Jyoti Yadav, Anshu Jain, Aashish Kapoor, S Sriram, S Sharath, Rajiv Raja, Karthick Murali, Sanjay Bangar, Vijay Dahiya wicket-keeper, Thirunavukkarasu Kumaran, Ashish Nehra, Nikesh Modi.
Bengal from: Utpal Chatterjee capt, Saba Karim wicket-keeper, Nikhil Haldipur, Rohan Gavaskar, Wrichik Majumdar, Srikanth Kalyani, Laxmi Rattan Shukla, Mainak Sengupta, Charanjeet Singh, Debdulal Majumdar, Sumit Panda, S Lahiri, Abdul Masood, Murtaza Lodhgar.
Umpires: I Sivaram Hyderabad, K Parthasarathy Andhra.
Match referee: Rathore Udaipur.
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