BHUBANESWAR 07-Sep-2016
Odisha ended their campaign in the 6th All-India U-19 Dhruv Pandove Trophy Cricket Tournament by sharing points in the third and last Pool-A league match, which ended in a draw at Sector-16 Cricket Stadium in Chandigarh today. Himachal Pradesh, however, gained three points by virtue of taking a 92-run first-innings lead, while Odisha settled with one point.
Electing to bat in the two-day match, Odisha rode on an unbeaten century by opening batsman Rathunath Malla and a half-century by Aakash Nayak to muster a respectable total of 250 in the first innings. In reply, Himachal were 342 for five when the match came to an end.
Odisha made a sound start with Swastik Samal and Rathunath Malla gathering 74 runs for the opening wicket. Malla further consolidated the innings, stitching together 102 runs in his second-wicket stand with Aakash Nayak. But after reaching a healthy position of 198 for three, Odisha lost wickets in regular intervals to be restricted to 250.
Malla hit 14 boundaries in his 278-ball unconquered knock of 107, while Nayak slammed 56 (106 balls) with the help of eight fours. The highlight of the Himachal Pradesh innings was an unbeaten century by Shubham Arora. Umesh Yadav and Ayaskanta Sahoo picked up two wickets each for Odisha. In their earlier two matches, Odisha held Bengal to a draw and then lost to host Punjab by an innings and 168 runs.
SCOREBOARD
ODISHA U-19 (1st Innings): Swastik Samal lbw Walia 27, Rathunath Malla (not out) 107 (278b, 14x4), Aakash Nayak b S Thakur 56 (106b, 8x4), Anurag Kanojia c D Singh b S Thakur 0, Nishikanta Rout lbw R Thakur 3, Saurabh Rawat c&b Negi 25, Partha Sarathi Nayak b R Thakur 3, Suryakanta Samal lbw J Thakur 0, Harshit Rathod c A Thakur b D Singh 5, Ayaskanta Sahoo (run out) 2, Umesh Yadav c A Thakur b Negi 0; Extras (b-4, lb-5, w-7, nb-6) 22
Total (All out; 88.4 overs) 250
Fall of wickets: 1-74 (S Samal, 25.6 ovs), 2-186 (A Nayak, 61.6 ovs), 3-186 (A Kanojia, 63.2 ovs), 4-198 (N Rout, 69.1 ovs), 5-233 (S Rawat, 80.1 ovs), 6-236 (P Nayak, 81.1 ovs), 7-236 (Suryakanta Samal, 81.2 ovs), 8-243 (H Rathod, 84.6 ovs), 9-249 (A Sahoo, 87.4 ovs), 10-250 (U Yadav, 88.4 ovs)
Bowling: Jashodhan Thakur 11.5-3-31-3, Rahul Thakur 15.1-4-59-2, Anshul Thakur 15-4-44-0, Apoorv Walia 20-7-40-1, Amandeep Negi 9.4-1-23-2, Digvijay Singh 17-5-44-1
HIMACHAL U-19 (1st Innings): Arshlan Khan lbw A Sahoo 50, Digvijay Singh b Suryakanta Samal 90, Prashat Tomar lbw A Sahoo 7, Apoorv Walia st A Nayak b Suryakanta Samal 34, Shubham Arora (not out) 103, Ritiwij Kashyap c Malla b Rathod 13, Sajan Rana (not out) 35; Extras (b-2, lb-1, nb-6, w-1) 10
Total (5 wkt, 96 overs) 342
Fall of wickets: 1-102 (A Khan, 30.4 ovs), 2-135 (P Tomar, 40.3 ovs), 3-165 (D Singh, 47.2 ovs), 4-207 (A Walia, 63.5 ovs), 5-232 (R Kashyap, 75.1 ovs)
Bowling: Umesh Yadav 13-3-51-0, Ayaskanta Sahoo 19-0-66-2, Suryakanta Samal 32-4-101-2, Harshit Rathod 23-5-64-1, Saurabh Rawat 1-0-9-0, Partha Sarathi Nayak 5-0-32-0, Swastik Samal 2-0-10-0, Raghunath Malla 1-0-6-0.
