21-Oct-2009 116
Fine all-round performance by Patesh Patel guided Orissa to an emphatic 65-run victory over Tripura in a league match of the East Zone Twenty20 Cricket Tournament for Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Dhanbad today.
Patel hit a 39-ball 41, including two fours and two sixes and then bagged three wickets for 16 runs to fashion the first win for Orissa in two matches. Unfazed by their seven-wicket defeat at the hands of Assam earlier yesterday, the young Orissa side compiled a competitive total of 154 for three wickets after electing to bat first against Tripura.
Besides Patel, Niranjan Behera and Rashmi Ranjan Das shone with the bat, hitting an unbeaten 44 (42b, 4x1, 6x1) and a breezy 45 (25b, 4x4, 6x2). In reply, Tripura folded up for 89 in 19.4 overs. After a day’s gap Orissa would take on formidable Bengal on Friday.
SCORE BOARD
ORISSA: Paresh Patel c Aphale b Shetty 41, Natraj Behera b Rana Dutta 7, Niranjan Behera (not out) 44, Rashmi R Das b Rana Dutta 45, Alok Sahoo (not out) 6: Extras (lb-2, w-9) 11.
Total (3 wkts, 20 overs) 154
Fall of wickets: 1/23, 2/73, 3/139
Bowling: Rana Dutta 4-0-22-2, M Murasingh 3-0-20-0, W Mota 24-0-27-0, T Saha 4-0-30-0, N Shetty 3-0-29-1, K Aphale 2-0-24-0.
TRIPURA: R Saha b Patel 14, S Chowdhury b A Sahoo 3, N Shetty c A Sahoo b D Behera 1, T Saha c Patel b P Das 4, B Das c&b R Mohanty 18, W Mota (run out) 1, K Aphale c Das b Patel 13, Swapan Das b Patel 4, R Dutta c Das b Samal 13, M Murasingh (run out) 2, Rana Dutta (run out) 12: Extras (lb-2, w-2) 4.
Total (all out 19.4 overs) 89
Fall of wickets: 1/9, 2/10, 3/20, 4/33, 5/43, 6/43, 7/62, 8/63, 9/65, 10/89.
Bowling: Preetamjit Das 3-0-10-1, Deepak Behera 2-0-6-1, Alok Sahoo 3-0-7-1, Paresh Patel 4-0-16-3, Rakesh Mohanty 2-0-24-1, Lagnajit Samal 3.4-0-13-1, Niranjan Behera 2-0-11-0.
