India, Jan. 17 -- In the second match of Day 1 of Season 12 of the Celebrity Cricket League, 4-time champions Telugu Warriors and the Bhojpuri Dabanggs locked horns. Last year, both teams could muster only 1 win each in the group stage and were eliminated from the tournament. Akhil won the toss and decided to bowl first, a decision that backfired, what with the Dabanggs successfully defending their moderate total of 155 runs.

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Sent in to set a target, the Dabanggs lost skipper Manoj Tiwari in the first over, with the score at 4 runs only. Aditya Ojha and Ram Yadav slowly built a partnership that took the team to 69-1 and a projected score around the 135-1...