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Leadership grooming: Pradosh Ranjan or Jagadeesan will captain the team during the exposure tour to U.K. | Photo Credit: E. LAKSHMI NARAYANAN A 19-member Tamil Nadu team will be travelling to the U.K. from May 2 to 28 to play a series of matches across formats as part of the TNCA’s efforts to give exposure to the State players. The players have been selected across age categories, including under-19, under-23 and Ranji Trophy. Pradosh Ranjan Paul or N. Jagadeesan are likely to lead the side in turns. The team will play four two-day games, five one-day games, and a T20 against the U.K.-based teams, including the second XIs of counties like Notts, Northamptonshire, Hampshire, Essex and Warwickshire. The players will be accompanied by six support staff members, including Robin Singh, L. Balaji, Tanveer Jabbar, and K. Vasudevadas, as well as a physio and video analyst. Despite reaching the semifinals of the Ranji Trophy this year, TN has often struggled in seamer-friendly conditions over the last few years, and the tour has been arranged to expose players to different conditions. “We are not worried about the results. We just want our players to experience new conditions and learn. Apart from match days, we will also have nets sessions We plan to hire a batting consultant, like a former Test player, and a trainer for the duration of the tour,” said TNCA secretary R.I. Palani. Coaches training Meanwhile, former India fielding coach R. Sridhar, alongside G. Jayakumar and Dr. Kinjal Suratwala who are all part of Coaching Beyond, has been conducting workshops for TNCA coaches and those of the 37 district teams. A total of 148 coaches will attend these across four batches. The TNCA will also have four satellite centres ready this year. The centres in Trichy, Tiruppur, and Theni are already up and running, while the one in Madurai is under construction. T20 tournament The Association will also conduct a 16-team T20 tournament next month featuring winners and runners of the second and third divisions and the winners of all zones in the fourth, fifth and sixth divisions. The final will be played under lights at MAC Stadium on May 28. The TN squad: Pradosh Ranjan Paul, N. Jagadeesan, S. Lokeshwar, B. Sachin, R. Vimal Khumar, A. Badrinath, Boopathi Vaishna Kumar, Mokit Hariharan, S. Mohamed Ali, K.T.A. Madhava Prasad, P. Vidyuth, Lakshya Jain, V.S. Karthik Manikandan, R. Sonu Yadav, H. Trilok Nag, C.V. Achyuth, T.D. Lokesh Raj and V.P. Dhiran.

Bengaluru, Gujarat Titans, preyed on by a sporting pitch, accurate Royal Challengers Bengaluru bowlers and their own inhibitions, laboured to a modest 147 all out in the Indian Premier League match here on Saturday. Spot-on RCB bowlers limit Gujarat Titans to below-par 147 There were a couple of good partnerships – 61 between David Miller and Shahrukh Khan and 44 by Rahul Tewatia and Rashid Khan – but the Titans lacked that one big innings or a stand that could have given them a firmer grip on the match. Unlock exclusive access to the latest news on India’s general elections, only on the HT App. Download Now! Download Now! In fact, they seemed distinctly incapable of accelerating even in the Power Play as their top-order batters struggled against RCB pacers, Mohammed Siraj and Yash Dayal who stuck to a wonderful length on a pitch that offered good carry and bounce. That GT managed to strike just two fours in the Power Play segment offered ample evidence to their struggle and RCB bowlers’ accuracy. The Gujarat side’s Power Play score of 23 for three was the lowest in the segment this season, and it was mainly due to Siraj’s domination upfront. Coming off a short-break, the pacer looked a far improved version of himself after the struggles of initial stages where he sprayed the ball all around. He consumed Wriddhiman Saha with a fine outswinger which the GT opener wafted to Dinesh Karthik behind the stumps. Shubman Gill followed soon as his attempted swat to the on-side of Siraj took a leading edge and ended in the hands of Vysakh Vijayakumar at deep point. Cameron Green fetched the third wicket for RCB in the Power Play when he jettisoned in-form B Sai Sudharsan, whose feeble pull close to the body was snaffled by Virat Kohli at mid-off. Once their top two run-getters of the season walked back to the dugout, the rest of the batters needed to step up big time for GT to reach a competitive total. Miller and Shahrukh tried their best to drag GT out of the woods with a well-paced 61-run alliance off 37 balls for the fourth wicket. Miller was even fortunate to get dropped on 23 off Green by Karn Sharma near square leg, did play some archetypal power shots. He punished leg-spinner Karn for a couple of sixes – a pull and a loft over extra cover – but fell to the same bowler when a miscued heave was grabbed by Glenn Maxwell at deep. But a bigger misfortune was in store for the visitors as Shahrukh, who backed up a tad too far to Rahul Tewatia’s soft drop, could not beat a throw from Kohli to the non-striker’s end. For the sixth-wicket, Tewatia and Rashid added 44 off 29 balls, but the latter’s desire to be innovative against Yash Dayal saw the ball crashing onto the stumps. Tewatia, who punished Karn for 18 runs in the 16th over, too perished soon as GT limped to a below-par total. This article was generated from an automated news agency feed without modifications to text.