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- Updated: September 10, 2016
Tea India Blue 114 for 0 (Gambhir 62*, Agarwal 46*) v India RedLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details
On the driest surface of this season’s Duleep Trophy, India Blue captain Gautam Gambhir had no doubt in opting to bat first. He went on to bring up his fourth consecutive fifty of the tournament and put on an unbroken stand of 114 with fellow opener Mayank Agarwal to lay a solid foundation for India Blue on a hot, cloudless first afternoon in Greater Noida.
If winning the toss on a pitch with large cracks in evidence was a slice of luck, Gambhir and Agarwal benefited from a few more fortunate escapes over the course of an otherwise straightforward first session. Agarwal’s first boundary was a streaky, uppish drive to the right of gully. …
