The Ranji Trophy 2019–20, which was started on 9th December 2019 has now reached to its second final stage, i.e., to its semi-finals. This on-going premier first-class cricket tournament is the 86th season of the Ranji Trophy and will carry on till 13th March 2020.
BEN vs KAR Live Score
The semi-finals round of this tournament is going to be held on 29th February 2020 (Saturday). Mainly, there are going to be total four teams (Gujarat, Saurashtra, Bengal and Karnataka) which will face-off each other in semi-finals. The first semi-final will be held between Gujarat and Saurashtra; and the Second Semi-final is going to be faced-off by Bengal and Karnataka.
Bengal is now all set to face-off Karnataka in the second semi-final of the Ranji Trophy 2019-20. The BEN vs KAR match is scheduled to be played at Eden Gardens, Kolkata on Saturday, February 29 at 9:30 AM IST. Abhimanyu Easwaran is going to captain Bengal and Karun Nair on the other hand will lead Karnataka in the Bengal vs Karnataka second semi-final match.
Match Details
Match: Bengal vs Karnataka
Series: Ranji Trophy 2019-20
Date: 29th February 2020 (Saturday)
Time: 9:30 AM IST; 4:00 AM GMT
Venue: Eden Gardens, Kolkata
BEN vs KAR Team Squads
Karnataka Squad: Krishnamurthy Siddharth, Devdutt Padikkal, Lokesh Rahul, Shreyas Gopal, Prasidh Krishna, Prateek Jain, Karun Nair(c), Srinivas Sharath(w), Krishnappa Gowtham, Jagadeesha Suchith, Abhimanyu Mithun, Ronit More, Sharath BR, Manish Pandey, Ravikumar Samarth
Bengal Squad: Koushik Ghosh, Abhimanyu Easwaran(c), Shahbaz Ahmed, Mukesh Kumar, Abhishek Raman, Arnab Nandi, Manoj Tiwary, Writtick Chatterjee, Sayan Ghosh, Anustup Majumdar, Shreevats Goswami(w), Ishan Porel, Nilkantha Das, Ashok Dinda, Sudip Chatterjee, Agniv Pan, Shreyan Chakraborty
Live Streaming & TV Channels
The Bengal vs Karnataka second semi-finals match is going to be broadcasted on the Star Sports Network i.e., on Star Sports 3, Star Sports Select 1 and Star Sports Select 1 HD. The match is also available for live streaming on Hotstar.
Weather & Pitch Report
By seeing the last match that was played at this ground, runs flew from the bat for the batsmen. In addition to that, in the starting phases of the match, the pitch also gave some assistance to the bowlers. As far as the weather is concerned, AccuWeather says that Kolkata is going to see a high temperature of 30-degree celsius and a low temperature of 17-degree Celsius, with no possibility of rain.
BEN vs KAR Preview
Bengal qualified for the semi-final round of Ranji Trophy semi-final by defeating Odisha in the first innings. While Karnataka on the other hand, qualified for this round by winning against Jammu and Kashmir by 167 runs.
Who will win today’s match?
The Bengal vs Karnataka, second semi-final round of Ranji Trophy is expected to be won by Karnataka by seeing their past performances and their best form at present.
