Senapati, Dhuper shine in drawn Ranji match vs Baroda

A career-best knock of 173 by Subhranshu Senapati and a half-century each by Rajesh Dhuper and Biplab Samantaray helped Odisha draw their four-day Ranji Trophy Group-C match against Baroda at Reliance Cricket Stadium in Vadodara (Gujarat) today. But host Baroda gathered three points by virtue of taking first-innings lead, while Odisha settled with one point.

Odisha conceded a 58-run first-innings lead by getting all out for 445, in reply to a huge total of 503 by Baroda. The home team were 259 for one in their second innings when the fourth day’s play came to an end. In the second innings, Aditya Waghmode and Deepak Hooda scored an unbeaten century each, while Vishnu Solanki hit a half-century.