TN wins toss, elects to bat

Mumbai, Nov 3 (UNI) Tamil Nadu won the toss and elected to bat first against Maharashtra in the Ranji trophy match, being played at Hutatma Anant Kanhere ground here today.

Tamil Nadu's Abhinav Mukund and M Vijay opened the innings. They had scored 24 runs in 15 minutes of play. Abhinav was playing at 13, while Vijay was on seven.

Teams: Tamil Nadu : Dinesh Karthik (c), M Vijay, Abhinav Mukund, K B Arun Karthick, Shivram Krishnan, R Prasanna, S Suresh Kumar, R Ashwin, C Suresh, L Balaji, V Yo-Mahesh, P Amarnath.

W V Raman (Coach), K Sriram (Manager).

Maharashtra : Nikhil Paradkar (c), Harshad Khadiwale, Ankit Bawne, Rohan Bhosale, Kedar Jadhav, Digamber Waghmare, Rohit Motwani (wk), Inamul Haq Jr (B'desh), Aditya Dole, Samad Falah, Deepak Shilamkar, Ameya Shrikhande.

Umpires: Sanay Hazare, Ulhas Gandhe and Sunil Chaturvedi (match refree), Tej Handu (third umpire).

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