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Buchi Babu tournament from today

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CHENNAI: The Buchi Babu all-India invitation cricket tournament will begin here on Tuesday.

The premier tournament, which serves as preparation for the first-class season, will feature 13 outstation teams, including Mumbai, Karnataka, and Uttar Pradesh, and three local teams, Tamil Nadu, City XI, and defending champion Districts.

The 16 teams have been divided into four zones. The sides in a zone will play each other once during the league phase and the top team from each zone will qualify for the semifinals.

Zones: A: Districts, Mumbai, Orissa, and Andhra. B: Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, City XI, and Rajasthan. C: Assam, Kerala, Saurashtra, and Uttar Pradesh. D: Hyderabad, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, and Vidarbha.

The schedule: League: First round: August 17 & 18; Second round: August 20 & 21; Third round: August 23 & 24. Knockout: Semifinals: August 26 & 27; Final: August 29 & 30 .

The squads: Tamil Nadu: M. Vijay (capt.), S. Anirudha, K.B. Arun Karthick, S. Badrinath, R. Sathish, K. Shree Vasudeva Das, K.H. Gopinath, Rahil Shah, V. Yo Mahesh, M. Prabhu, R. Aushik Srinivas, R Sutheesh, J. Syed Mohammed, R. Prasanna, and K. Bharath Shankar. Coach: P.C. Prakash.

City XI: K. Martin Sanjeev (capt.), M. Kaushik Gandhi, L. Suryapprakash, B. Aparajith, Ashwin Venkataraman, V. Maaruthi Raghav, U. Sushil, Malolan Rangarajan, V. Arun Kumar, J. Kaushik, R.D. Ashwin Kumar, P.K. Dharma, B. Indrajith, M. Praveen Srivatsan, and V. Ganga Sridhar Raju. Coach: S. Suresh .

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