Kolkata, Feb 25 (IANS) The Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) on Tuesday urged the first and second division clubs, district teams and schools to send their players to support Bengal during their Ranji Trophy semi-final against Karnataka at the Eden Gardens from Saturday.
“We have urged the first and second division clubs to send their players to watch the match. We have also asked the district teams to send the players as also school level cricketers and coaching centres affiliated with us. We want everyone to come and support our team,” said CAB president Avishek Dalmiya.
Bengal stormed into the Ranji Trophy semi-finals by virtue of their first innings lead against Odisha at Cuttack in a quarter-final clash on Monday.
Karnataka thrashed Jammu and Kashmir to set up a semi-final date with Bengal. Gujarat and Saurashtra will play the other semi-final.
Bengal, meanwhile, named an unchanged squad for the key clash, with Abhimanyu Easwaran leading the side. Karnataka have been bolstered by the decision to include star India batsman K.L. Rahul in the squad for the semi.
Bengal Squad: Abhimanyu Easwaran (captain), Manoj Tiwary, Anustup Majumder, Shreevats Goswami (wk), Sudip Chatterjee, Abishek Raman, Koushik Ghosh, Arnab Nandi, Shahbaz Ahmed, Agniv Pan, Ishan Porel, Shreyan Chakraborty, Nilkantha Das, Mukesh Kumar, Golam Mustafa and Akash Deep.
–IANS
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