Rajat, Pritam shine in drawn U-16 match vs Jharkhand

Odisha gained three points by virtue of taking a first-innings lead of 78 runs against host Jharkhand in their three-day Vijay Hazare Trophy East Zone U-16 league match, which ended at Keenan Stadium in Jamshedpur today.

In-form Rajat Das and Pritam Jena put up impressive performance in the match for Odisha. Das, who scored one century and two fifties in the previous three matches, hit a responsible knock of 73 in the first innings after they elected to bat first. In reply, Jharkhand were bowled out for 186 with Pritam bagging five wickets for 37 runs.

After taking the sizeable first-innings lead, Odisha declared their second innings at 90 for seven and set a target of 169 for Jharkhand to win the match. The home team settled with one point as they could make 75 for five in the second innings when play on the third and last day came to an end. With this match, Odisha completed their league engagements with nine points from four matches.
SCOREBOARD
ODISHA (1st innings):
Swastik Samal b Mishra 1, Aakash Nayak lbw Shlok 19, Saswat Mohanty st Sagar b Yadav 18, Rajat Das st Sagar b Yadav 73, Sisir Behera c Sharan b Shlok 7, Soumya Kumar (run out) 34, Biswajit Das b Anand 5, Pritam Jena (run out) 41, Kshyamasagar Bal (not out) 37, Rajesh Mohanty lbw A Kumar 14, P Mahapatra lbw A Kumar 0; Extras (b-11, lb-1, w-2, nb-1) 15
Total (All out; 103 overs) 264
Fall of wickets:
1-5 (Samal, 3.1 ov), 2-37 (Ch Nayak, 12.5 ov), 3-45 (Mohanty, 17.6 ov), 4-56 (K Behera, 22.6 ov), 5-116 (S Kumar, 47.2 ov), 6-139 (Das, 59.6 ov), 7-197 (K Das, 81.3 ov), 8-236 (Jena, 93.2 ov), 9-262 (Mohanty, 101 ov), 10-264 (Mahapatra, 103 ov)
Bowling: Avinash Kumar 9-3-14-2, Sushant Mishra 12-4-41-1, Shlok Bashisht 19-3-67-2, Pankaj Yadav 28-12-56-2, Apurva Anand 35-11-74-1.
JHARKHAND (1st innings): Dibyanshu Dibyanshu Raj b Bal 6, Ram Sharan c Bal b Jena 19, Aditya Narayan c R Mohanty b R Das 33, Shresht Sagar lbw Jena 8, Harshit Namdev (not out) 65, Subhojit Haldar lbw Jena 2, Avinash Kumar b Mahapatra 9, Apurva Anand lbw Jena 24, Pankaj Yadav b Bal 0, S Shlok lbw Jena 1, Sushant Mishra b Mahapatra 6; Extras (b-10, nb-3) 13
Total (All out; 103.1 overs) 186
Fall of wickets:
1-9 (Raj, 9.1 ov), 2-53 (Sharan, 25 ov), 3-60 (Narayan, 28.2 ov), 4-87 (Sagar, 40.3 ov), 5-101, (Haldar, 44.5), 6-128 (A Kumar, 74.5 ov), 7-164 (Anand, 84.4 ov), 8-168 (Yadav, 91.5 ov), 9-173 (Shlok, 94.4 ov), 10-186 (Mishra, 103.1 ov)
Bowling: Rajesh Mohanty 14-4-27-0, Saswat Mohanty 6-2-21-0, Kshyamasagar Bal 17-7-32-2, Pritam Jena 27-14-37-5, P Mahapatra 14.1-5-17-2, Rajat Das 3-1-11-1, Soumya Kumar 20-8-30-0, Sisir Behera 2-1-1-0.
ODISHA (2nd innings): S Behera b A Kumar 8, A Nayak c Sagar b Mishra 8, S Samal (run out) 34, R Das c  P Yadav b Mishra 2, S Kumar c Narayan b Anand 18, K Bal (not out) 15, P Jena st Sagar b P Yadav 3, R Mohanty b P Yadav 0; Extras (b-1, w-1) 2
Total (7 wkts decl; 9.2 overs) 90
Fall of wickets:
1-16 (K Behera, 5.1 ov), 2-18 (Ch Nayak, 6.4 ov), 3-25 (K Das, 10.6 ov), 4-65 (S Kumar, 24.3 ov), 5-80 (Samal, 27.2 ov), 6-90 (Jena, 29.1 ov), 7-90 (Mohanty, 29.2 ov)
Bowling: S Mishra 12-4-29-2, A Kumar 12-0-35-1, A Anand 3-1-14-1, P Yadav 2.2-0-11-2
JHARKHAND (2nd Innings): D Raj c Nayak b R Das 14, R Sharan lbw S Kumar 4, A Narayan c Nayak b P Mahapatra 15, S Sagar (not out) 15, H Namdev c S Behera b R Das 3, S Haldar b S Kumar 16, A Kumar (not out) 1; Extras (b 4, w-3) 7
Total (5 wkts; 42 overs) 75
Fall of wickets:
1-4 (Raushan Sharan, 1.5 ov), 2-37 (Raj, 19.5 ov), 3-37 (Narayan, 20.1 ov), 4-42 (Namdev, 23.1 ov), 5-70 (Haldar, 32.2 ov)
Bowling: R Mohanty 3-2-2-0, S Kumar 13-6-26-2, K Bal 3-1-7-0, Pritam Jena 8-5-9-0, P Mahapatra 9-1-17-1, R Das 6-1-10-2

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