BHUBANESWAR 18-Feb-2011 147
Defending champions finished third in the East Zone Vijay Hazare Trophy Cricket Tournament, which concluded at Agartala, Tripura today. Jharkhand emerged champions when they defeated Orissa by seven wickets in the last league match at Polytechnic Institute ground in Agartala.
Jharkhand topped the five-team league table with 18 points from four successive wins, while Bengal won three and lost one to finish runners-up with 14 points. Orissa secured 10 points, winning two matches and losing the other two. Assam and Tripura finished fourth and last with one and minus three points respectively.
Put into bat by Jharkhand skipper Sourav Tiwary, Orissa were dismissed for 176 in 45 overs. They failed to recover from a top-order collapse, which saw them losing five wickets for 52 runs. All-rounder Paresh Patel waged a lone battle, making 79 (118 balls, 8x4, 1x6). In reply, Jharkhand rode on 40 plus knocks by opener Akash Verma, Ishank Jaggi and Sourav Tiwary to overhaul the target quite comfortably.
SCOREBOARD
ORISSA: Alok Sahoo c Gautam b K Sharma 0, Natraj Behera c Gautam b K Sharma 9, Sumitosh Praharaj (run out) 4, Paresh Patel c Tiwary b Krishanatry 79, Haladhar Das (run out) 2, Biplab Samantaray c Gautam b Aaron 5, Rashmi Ranjan Das (run out) 25, Bibhudutta Panda b Aaron 24, Niranjan Behera b Krishanatry 1, Lagnajit Samal c Tiwary b Aaron 4, Alok Mangaraj (not out) 0; Extras (b-6, lb-2, w-14, nb-1) 23
Total (all out, 45 overs) 176
Fall of wickets: 1-0, 2-15, 3-15, 4-37, 5-52, 6-102, 7-153, 8-161, 9-174, 10-176
Bowling: Kuldeep Sharma 9-2-22-2, Y Krishanatry 9-0-48-2, V Aaron 9-0-32-3, S Nadeem 9-1-31-0, S Ghosh 3-0-14-0, Keshav Kumar 6-0-21-0.
JHARKHAND: Akash Verma (run out) 49, S Ghosh (run out) 18, Keshav Kumar c Natraj b Patel 2, Ishank Jaggi (not out) 48, Sourav Tiwary (not out) 48; Extras (b-4, lb-1, w-6, nb-1) 12
Total (3 wkts, 48.4 overs) 177
Fall of wickets: 1/71, 2-73, 3-73
Bowling: Alok Sahoo 4-0-16-0, Alok Mangaraj 9.4-1-34-1, Bibhudutta Panda 7-1-28-0, Paresh Patel 10-2-27-1, Biplab Samantaray 7-0-29-0, Niranjan Behera 3-0-9-0, Lagnajit Samal 7-1-25-1, Sumitosh Praharaj 1-0-4-0.
