Odisha crush Tripura in East Zone U-16 match

A seven-wicket haul by captain Nitish Samantray enabled Odisha crush Tripura by 114 runs on the third and last day of their Vijay Merchant Trophy East Zone U-16 match at MBB Stadium in Agartala today. Host Tripura lost the match as they were bundled out for 68, while chasing a target of 183. Samantray destroyed the opposition second innings, scalping seven wickets for 32 runs.

Odisha set the challenging target before the home team by declaring their second innings at 171 for seven after resuming at the overnight score of 46 for two. Among successful Odisha batsmen, Suman Kumar Das hit an unbeaten 52, while Manas Ranjan Nayak and Saswat Mohanty contributed 40 and 38 respectively.

This was the second win for Odisha and fetched them six points. Odisha now occupy the third position in the league table with 13 points in their kitty and they will next meet Assam here from December 25 to 28.

Earlier, in reply to a respectable first-innings total of 201 by Odisha, host Tripura folded up for 190 after resuming at the overnight score of 12 for one. Sridam Paul was the top scorer for Tripura with a fighting knock of 84. Among Odisha bowlers, Abinash Singh took three wickets, while Saswat Mohanty, Satyakam Bharadwaj and captain Nitish Samantray picked up a brace each.

Earlier, Saswat Mohanty hit a stroke-filled 69 to enable Odisha make a respectable total in the first innings. Put into bat, Odisha struggled against the bowling of Kajal Sutradhar and Amit Ali. They were able to muster a 200-plus total thanks to the 190-ball knock by Saswat Mohanty, who hit 12 boundaries. His 64-run partnership for the fifth wicket with Subhankar Biswas was the highest for Odisha. Biswas contributed 31 runs.

SCOREBOARD:
ODISHA
(1st innings): Manas Ranjan Nayak c Sujit C Deb b P Debnath 20, M Prasanth c Sutradhar b A Ali 22, Shashang Rungata st Lodh b A Ali 14, Saswat Mohanty c Hossain b P Debnath 69, Abinash Singh lbw T Das 18, Subhankar Biswas lbw A Ali 31, Suman Kumar Das lbw Sutradhar 7, Shibasish Sahoo c Lodh b Sutradhar 0, Nitish Samantaray lbw Sutradhar 2, Satyakam Bharadwaj (not out) 5, Prasanta Gangai c&b Sutradhar 0; Extras (nb-1, w-2, b-10) 13
Total (All out; 81.5 overs) 201
Fall of wickets:
1-23 (MR Nayak, 5.5 ov), 2-52 (S Rungata, 18.5 ov), 3-57 (M Prasanth, 20.4 ov), 4-88 (A Singh, 32.4 ov), 5-152 (S Biswas, 60.4 ov), 6-167 (SK Das, 69.1 ov), 7-167 (S Sahoo, 69.4 ov), 8-190 (N  Samantaray, 75.2 ov), 9-196 (S Mohanty, 78.4 ov), 10-201 (P Gangai, 81.5 ov)
Bowling: Kajal Sutradhar 15.5-5-38-4, Pritam Debnath 13-7-17-2, Sahil Sultan 13-2-38-0, Parvez Sultan 12-6-23-0, Amit Ali 12-3-33-3, Rajib Hossain 5-2-15-0, Tanmoy Das 6-4-10-1, Sujit Deb 2-0-8-0, Subham Sutradhar 3-0-9-0

TRIPURA (1st innings): Akash Lodh lbw S Das 12, Parvez Sultan lbw S Mohanty 2, Sridam Paul b Samantray 84, Rajib Hossain lbw S Mohanty 7, Subham Sutradhar c Nayak b Satyakam Bharadwaj 12, Sujit Deb c Nayak b Bharadwaj 29, Amit Ali c S Mohanty b A Singh 28, Tanmoy Das c Nayak b A Singh 1, Pritam Debnath lbw A Singh 0, Sahil Sultan (not out) 4, Kajal Sutradhar c S Mohanty b Samantaray 9; Extras (b-2) 2
Total (All out; 77.3 overs) 190
Fall of wickets:
1-8 (Sultan, 5.5 ov), 2-32 (Lodh, 12.2 ov), 3-51 (Hossain, 17.3 ov), 4-86 (Sutradhar, 30.3 ov), 5-141 (S Deb, 46.6 ov), 6-155 (S Paul, 51.1 ov), 7-167 (T Das, 65.2 ov), 8-167 (P Debnath, 65.3 ov), 9-181 (Amit Ali, 74.6 ov), 10-190 (Sutradhar, 77.3 ov)
Bowling: Shibasish Sahoo 11-2-27-0, Prasanta Gangai 4-2-14-0, Satyakam Bharadwaj 13-2-36-2, Saswat Mohanty 14-5-19-2, Suman Kumar Das 5-0-22-1, Nitish Samantaray 18.3-6-43-2, Abinash Singh 12-4-27-3

ODISHA (2nd innings): Manas Ranjan Nayak b Sultan 40, M Prasanth c SC Deb b P Debnath 0, Shashang Rungata lbw Sutradhar 1, Saswat Mohanty c A Ali b P Debnath 38, Abinash Singh (run out) A Ali 19, Subhankar Biswas b Sultan 0, Suman Kumar Das (not out) 52, Shibasish Sahoo lbw Sutradhar 1, Nitish Samantaray (not out) 15; Extras (w-1, b-4) 5
Total (7 wickets decl; 52.4 overs) 171
Fall of wickets:
1-0 (M Prasanth, 1.1 ov), 2-7 (Rungata, 4.4 ov), 3-60 (S Mohanty, 25.4 ov), 4-101 (A Singh, 32.5 ov), 5-101 (S Biswas, 32.6 ov), 6-110 (M Nayak, 36.1 ov), 7-126 (S Sahoo, 42.1 ov)
Bowling: Kajal Sutradhar 14-5-42-2, Pritam Debnath 12-3-34-2, Sahil Sultan 11-4-31-2, Subham Sutradhar 2-0-9-0, Tanmoy Das 4-1-10-0, Parvez Sultan 3.4-0-25-0, Amit Ali 6-1-16-0

TRIPURA (2nd innings): Akash Lodh c&b A Singh 2, Parvez Sultan c A Singh b Bharadwaj 16, Sridam Paul c Gangai b A Singh 0, Tanmoy Das c A Singh b Samantaray 20, Subham Sutradhar lbw Samantaray 13, Sujit C Deb b Samantaray 4, Amit Ali (not out) 12, Rajib Hossain lbw Samantaray 0, Pritam Debnath b Samantaray 0, Sahil Sultan lbw Samantaray 0, Kajal Sutradhar c Bharadwaj b Samantaray 0; Extras (b-1) 1
Total (All out; 36.4 overs) 68
Fall of wickets:
1-6 (Lodh, 8.5 ov), 2-6 (S Paul, 10.6 ov), 3-39 (Sultan, 25.5 ov), 4-39 (T Das, 26.2 ov), 5-43 (SC Deb, 26.5 ov), 6-66 (Sutradhar, 32.5 ov), 7-66 (Hossain, 32.6 ov), 8-68 (P Debnath, 34.2 ov), 9-68 (S Sultan, 36.2 ov), 10-68 (Sutradhar, 36.4 ov)
Bowling: Saswat Mohanty 7-3-13-0, Satyakam Bharadwaj 10-5-8-1, Abinash Singh 6-4-9-2, Shibasish Sahoo 2-1-1-0, Prasanta Gangai 2-1-4-0, Nitish Samantaray 9.4-2-32-7

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