Dube And Axar Star For India-A

The former takes advantage of three reprieves; Chahal claims five.

- M.R. Praveen Chandran

The fielding from both sides was slipshod and catches were put down fairly regularly, but in the end, the three catches which South Africa-A dropped off Shivam Dube cost it the match.

Dube profited from the reprieves to carve out a game-changing innings of 79 not out (60b, 3x4, 6x6).

His hard-hitting knock and an unbroken 121-run seventh-wicket stand with an equally belligerent Axar Patel (60 not out, 36b, 6x4, 3x6) was the cornerstone of India-A’s emphatic 69-run win in the opening unofficial one-day cricket match at the Sports Hub here on Thursday.