BHUBANESWAR 27-Feb-2014 106
Bengal beat Odisha by 38 runs via VJD Method in their truncated league match of the East Zone Vijay Hazare Trophy Tournament at JSCA Oval in Ranhi today. Rain stopped play when Odisha were struggling at 95 for six, in reply to Bengal`s competitive total of 202. With this win Bengal gained four points, while Odisha drew blank.
Put into bat, Bengal were reduced to 44 for four before a fifth-wicket stand worth 87 runs between Sudip Chatterjee and skipper Laxmi Ratan Shukla helped them make a recovery. Medium-pacer Deepak Behera was most successful Odisha bowler, bagging four wickets for 44 runs.
Chasing the target, Odisha too experienced a top-order failure, losing six wickets for 86 runs. Barring opener Paresh Patel, who remained unbeaten on 39, no other Odisha batsman could reach double figure. Veer Pratap Singh did maximum damage to the Odisha batting line-up, taking three wickets for 34 runs.
Assam thrashed Tripura by 80 runs, also by VJD Method, in another match of the day at JSCA International Stadium in Ranchi.
SCOREBOARD
BENGAL: W Saha (run out) 13, S Goswami c Lenka b Mohanty 8, S Chatterjee st Lenka b Patel 68, M Tiwary b Behera 2, S Lahiri lbw Behera 0, LR Shukla c Behera b Patel 42, D Das c Patel b Behera 24, S Mondal c Lenka b Behera 11, B Amit (run out) 7, VP Singh (not out) 9, A Dinda c Samantaray b Mohanty 5; Extras (lb-5, w-7, nb-1) 13
Total (all out; 49.2 overs) 202
Fall of wickets: 1-23, 2-23, 3-29, 4-44, 5-131, 6-168, 7-172, 8-184, 9-193
Bowling: Suryakant Pradhan 10-2-30-0, Basant Mohanty 11.2-2-29-2, Deepak Behera 10-0-41-4, Biplab Samantaray 8-0-50-0, Paresh Patel 10-0-47-2
ODISHA: Paresh Patel (not out) 39, Natraj Behera c Goswami b VP Singh 8, Aravinda Singh c Saha b Dinda 1, Govind Poddar c Goswami b VP Singh 9, Biplab Smantaray c Das b VP Singh 8, Avilash Mallick c Tiwary b Amit 6, Rakesh Mohanty c Saha b Amit 6, Sujit Lenka (not out) 6; Extras (lb-5, w-5, nb-3) 13
Total (6 wkts; 22.3 overs) 95
Fall of wickets: 1-30, 2-36, 3-50, 4-58, 5-67, 6-86
Bowling: Ashok Dinda 5-0-12-1, Badupalli Amit 8-3-25-2, Veer Pratap Singh 7-0-34-3, Laxmi Ratan Shukla 2.3-0-19-0.
