Bengal look to bounce back against struggling Hyderabad

Desperately eyeing a return to winning ways, Bengal will rely on their spinners to do the trick against a struggling Hyderabad in their Ranji Trophy fixture here from Sunday.

Bengal suffered a humiliating nine-wicket defeat to Vidarbha inside two days in an away fixture in the last round, slipping to eighth position in the cross pool of Group A and B teams.

With five teams set to make the cut for the quarterfinals, the task for the Arun Lal-coached side has become all the more challenging.

Bengal failed to take any advantage of the home conditions, settling for three points in their last two outings, against Andhra and Gujarat at the Eden Gardens.

Bengal have now gone for a spin-friendly track at the Kalyani Stadium, about 70-kms from here, hoping to win a match.

"Team's looking in good shape. We have practised well and the players are looking focused and confident. It looks a good cricketing wicket. The ball might not turn from the first ball but it can gradually," Bengal skipper Abhimanyu Easwaran said.

"We might go in with three spinners, let's see how's the wicket tomorrow morning. We need to get runs as a group. We need to score good runs and get to a good total."
"You can't control things like injury. The batters have prepared well for the game and we just need to get couple of hundreds if we can."
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