KOLKATA: Bengal pacers good run was halted by Ravi Teja and Tanay Thyagarajan who were involved in a potential game-changing eighth-wicket partnership of 109 runs that kept the Ranji Trophy Elite Group B match between Bengal and Hyderabad evenly poised at the end of Day II at the Barabati Stadium in Cuttack on Friday. Mukesh Kumar, who rocked the Hyderabad innings claiming two wickets on Thursday evening, continued in the same vein adding two more to his tally early on Friday morning dismissing Himalay Agarwal and wicketkeeper-batter Prateek Reddy.
Akash Deep picked up Buddhi Rahul while Ishan Porel dismissed opener Tanmay Agarwal soon after. And when medium pacer Sayan Sekhar Mondol castled Mickil Jaiswal, Hyderabad looked down the barrel being reduced to 70 for seven.