BHUBANESWAR 13-Dec-2015
Delhi rode on a half-century eachy by captain Gautam Gambhir and Milind Kumar to beat Odisha by five wickets in their Group C league match of the Vijay Hazare Trophy Tournament at Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium in Delhi today.
Put into bat, Odisha made a decent total of 225 for nine, thanks to a half-century by captain Natraj Behera and a 47 by former captain Biplab Samantaray. Host Delhi overhauled the target with 21 balls to spare. Middle-order batsman Ranjit Singh and off-spinner Subham Nayak made their List A debut for Odisha in this match.
This was the second defeat in three matches for Odisha, who earlier lost to Maharashtra by 40 runs after beating Vidarbha by three runs. They will next meet Baroda tomorrow.
SCOREBOARD
ODISHA: Rajesh Dhuper b Saini 16, Natraj Behera c Rana b Sharma 50, Ranjit Singh b Saini 10, Sheshdeep Patra b Bhati 15, Govind Poddar st Chand b Sharma 30, Biplab Samantray c Milind b Sharma 47, Arabind Singh (run out) 2, Alok Sahoo c Shorey b Negi 10, Deepak Behera c Tokas b Negi 17, Subham Nayak (not out) 0, Basant Mohanty (not out) 0; Extras (b-5, lb-4, w-19) 28
Total (9 wkts; 50 overs) 225
Fall of wickets: 1-35 (Ranjit Singh, 6.3 ov), 2-43 (Dhuper, 8.6 ov), 3-80 (Patra, 20.5 ov), 4-111 (Poddar, 30.3 ov), 5-192 (Samantray, 43.5 ov), 6-197 (Natraj Behera, 45.4 ov), 7-197 (Singh, 45.5 ov), 8-224 (Sahoo, 49.2 ov), 9-224 (Behera, 49.3 ov)
Bowling: N Saini 10-1-47-2, V Tokas 10-0-34-0, S Bhati 10-1-38-1, Manan Sharma 10-0-47-3, P Negi 9-0-45-2, Milind Kumar 1-0-5-0
DELHI: U Chand c R Singh b Sahoo 11, G Gambhir (run out) 67, D Shorey (run out) 25, N Rana c Dhuper b Nayak 0, Milind Kumar (not out) 62, V Rawal c Dhuper b Sahoo 40, Manan Sharma (not out) 10, Extras (lb-7, w-5, nb-1) 13
Total (5 wkts; 46.3 overs) 228
Fall of wickets: 1-29 (Chand, 5.5 ov), 2-88 (Shorey, 17.6 ov), 3-88 (Rana, 18.2 ov), 4-129 (Gambhir, 26.5 ov), 5-201 (Rawal, 43.1 ov)
Bowling: Basant Mohanty 8.3-2-32-0, Alok Sahoo 8-0-58-2, Biplab Samantray 3-0-14-0, Deepak Behera 8-0-35-0, Subham Nayak 10-0-45-1, Sheshdeep Patra 5-0-22-0, Govind Poddar 4-0-15-0.
