TN have the upper hand

CHENNAI, February 4: Former champions Tamil Nadu, led by all rounder Robin Singh, are expected to go all out for a victory against a youthful Uttar Pradesh team in their four-day Ranji Trophy super league cricket match starting here tomorrow.

The hosts look formidable with players like S Sharath, Hemang Badani besides Test discard WV Raman and M Venkataramana in the team. But Tamil Nadu, which has defeated Uttar Pradesh on all four three in Chennai and once in Kanpur occasions in the last 15 years, cannot take the rivals lightly as they have the potential to rise to the occasion. The rivals will announce their playing eleven tomorrow.

Teams

Tamil Nadu: Robin Singh C, WV Raman, Syed Masood Ahmed, RC Vasanth Kumar, S Sriram, Hemang Badani, S Vasu, S Sharath, Reuban Paul wk, T Kumaran, Tanveer Jabbar, S Chandramouli, M Venkataramana, S Vasanth Saravanan and S Mahesh.

UP: Gayendra Kumar Kedernath Pandey C, Rizwan Shamshad, Rahul Vijay Sapru, Jyoti Prasad Yadav, Rakesh Sharma, M ObaidKamal, AW Zaidi, Saurabh Anand Shukla, Asif Jaffer, Shivdhar Bajpai, Manoj Mudgal wk, Moofi Raza, Javed Anwar, Sanjeev Jakhonla, Mohd Zaif