CUTTACK 05-Nov-2014
Host Tripura and Odisha gained one point each in their three-day East Zone Vijay Merchant Trophy U-16 match, which ended in a draw at Tripura Institute of Technology ground in Agartala today. The highlights of the match were a century by Odisha Raghunath Malla and a five-wicket haul by his statemate Suryakanta Samal.
Put into bat, Odisha declared their first innings with a healthy total of 342 for eight. In reply, Tripura were 127 for six when the match ended in draw. Since the first innings of both the sides remained incomplete, teams had to contend with one point each.
Malla was run out just after completing his century, which came off 162 balls and included eight boundaries. Among other successful Odisha batsmen, S Behera and Y Srikant scored a half-century each. Samal scalped five wickets, conceding only 28 runs.
SCOREBOARD:
ODISHA (1st innings): Y Srikant b Debbarma 54, Sidhartha Behera lbw B Das 71, Raghunath Malla (run out) 100, Farhat Khan c A Das b Hossain 75, Kshamasagar Bal b Hossain 0, Arindam Chakraborty st A Das b Paul 14, Dibya Ranjan Sahoo c Hossain b B Das 13, Anwesh Das c Debbarma b B Das 1, Sunil Roul (not out) 2; Extras (b-5, lb-2, nb-3, w-2) 12
Total (8 wkts, declared, 102.5 overs) 342
Fall of wickets: 1-96, 2-148, 3-279, 4-279, 5-313, 6-330, 7-334, 8-342
Bowling: Hossain 18-5-58-2, B Das 8-1-15-1, Ghosh 8-2-18-0, Paul 26-3-90-1, A Das 10-0-59-0, B Das 23.5-3-69-2, Debbarma 9-2-26-1
TRIPUR (1st innings): BB Das c Malla b Samal 35, B Dey c D Sahoo b Samal 40, H Das lbw b Samal 0, A Datta lbw Samal 4, S Paul (not out) 23, A Das lbw Samal 8, K Debbarma b Das 14, B Das (not out) 0; Extras (b-1, lb-1, w-1) 3
Total (6 wkts, 75 overs) 127
Fall of wickets: 1-70, 2-76, 3-77, 4-82, 5-103, 6-126
Bowling: Anwesh Das 7-2-13-1, Sunil Roul 15-6-25-0, Arindam Chakraborty 9-2-26-0, Suryakanta Samal 25-15-28-5, Sahil Raja 15-6-28-0, Farhat Khan 2-0-5-0, Kshamasagar Bal 2-2-0-0.
