BHUBANESWAR 07-Mar-2014 117
A hapless Odisha finished last in the league table when they suffered their third defeat, losing to Jharkhand by six wickets in the East Zone Vijay Hazare Trophy Tournament at Ranchi today. Impressive knocks of 80 each by Anurag Sarangi and Govind Poddar against Jharkhand proved too late and too little as Odisha could get only two points from four matches.
Odisha started their campaign with a 38-run defeat against Bengal. Their next match against Assam was washed out and the teams gained two points each. But the worst happended when the team led by Natraj Behera was handed out a six-wicket humiliating drubbing by minnows Tripura. This was Odisha`s second defeat against Tripura in 20 years with the first happening at Berhampur, under the captainship of Ranjib Biswal on December 14, 1993.
On the other hand the win against Odisha helped Jharkhand emerge East Zone champions with 14 points and qualify for the all-India quarterfinals. Bengal also reached the quarterfinals by virtue of finishing East Zone runners-up with 12 points. In their last league matches, Bengal overcame a fighting Assam by 12 runs.
SCOREBOARD
ODISHA: Paresh Patel c Tiwary b Shukla 2, Bikash Pati (run out) 5, Natraj Behera c Deobrat b V Singh 2, Anurag Sarangi c K Singh b Shukla 80, Biplab Samantaray b Shukla 0, Govind Poddar b Nadeem 80, Deepak Behera 17, Subhrajit Sahoo (run out) 2, Alok Sahoo lbw Nadeem 1, Basant Mohanty (not out) 13; Extras (b-3, lb-3, w-8) 14
Total (8 wkts; 50 overs) 216
Fall of wickets: 1-7, 2-14, 3-14, 4-18, 5-173, 6-185, 7-189, 8-191.
Bowling: R Shukla 11-1-49-3, Vikash Singh 10-0-42-1, Kaushal Singh 6-0-28-0, V Singh 1-0-6-0, S Quadri 10-0-32-0, S Nadeem 10-0-42-2, A Yadav 1-0-5-0, S Tiwary 1-0-6-0.
JHARKHAND: I Jaggi b J Behera 125, A Yadav b B Mohanty 0, V Singh c Samantaray b B Mohanty 6, Ishan Kishan (run out) 44, S Tiwary (not out) 30, Kumar Deobrat (not out) 11; Extras (nb-4) 4
Total (4 wkts; 45.3 overs) 220
Fall of wickets: 1-21, 2-55, 3-141, 4-203
Bowling: Basant Mohanty 8-1-32-2, Alok Sahoo 3-0-22-0, Deepak Behera 2-0-27-0, Paresh Patel 10-0-45-0, Biplab Samantaray 5-0-22-0, Jayant Behera 10.3-0-40-1, Govind Poddar 7-0-32-0.
