BHUBANESWAR 10-Dec-2017
Host Punjab defeated Odisha by an innings and 125 runs on the third day of their four-day Cooch Behar Trophy U-19 Group-A match at Gandhi Ground in Amritsar today. Punjab collected seven points from the thumping win, while Odisha drew blank.
Resuming their second innings at the overnight score of 40 for two and needing another 258 runs to avoid innings defeat, Odisha were all out for 172. Manas Ranjan Nayak was top scored for Odisha with 41 runs, while next notable contribution of 34 came from the blade of captain Raghunath Malla.
This was the second successive defeat in three matches for Odisha, who earlier lost to Chhattisgarh by 10 wickets after securing one point from the drawn first-round match against Saurashtra. Odisha now have just one point in their account and they will next meet Jharkhand at Vikash Ground in Bargarh from December 17.
Earlier electing to bat, Odisha made a sound start in the first innings with openers Swastik Samal and Kunal Mallick putting on 60 runs for the first wicket. But thereafter they lost wickets in regular intervals to be all out for 155. Jyoti Ranjan Behera was their top scorer with an unbeaten 34.
In reply, Punjab rode on a half-century each by five batsman to muster a formidable total of 452 for nine declared. Krishan Palai was most successful bowler for Odisha, taking five wickets for 124 runs.
SCOREBOARD
ODISHA (1st innings): Swastik Samal lbw Dutta 29, Kunal Mallick lbw R Kumar 26, Manas Ranjan Nayak b Kashyap 4, Raghunath Malla c P Singh b Kashyap 1, Aakash Ch Nayak b Dutta 4, Jyoti R Behera (not out) 34, Pritam Jena lbw M Singh 11, Krishna Palai c J Singh b R Kumar 0, Rajesh Mohanty c Chitkara b Kashyap 13, Shekhar Majhi (run out) Rohit Kumar 8, Biswajit Mallick lbw R Kumar 0; Extras (nb-4, w-1, b-13, lb-7) 25
Total (All out; 65.4 overs) 155
Fall of wickets: 1-60 (K Mallick, 15.4 ov), 2-66 (MR Nayak, 17.3), 3-68 (Samal, 24.5), 4-72 (Malla, 25.4), 5-72 (Nayak, 26.4), 6-97 (Jena, 44.2), 7-98 (Palai, 45.2), 8-120 (Mohanty, 49.2), 9-151 (Majhi, 65.2), 10-155 (B Mallick, 65.4)
Bowling: Mandeep Singh 14-5-29-1, Kuwar Pathak 4-1-19-0, Prerit Dutta 16-8-27-2, Rohit Kumar 14.4-5-41-3, Rahul Kashyap 17-9-19-3.
PUNJAB (1st innings): Jagmeet Singh b Jena 98, Arjun Verma (run out) Jena 87, Nehal Wadhera st Mallick b Palai 65, Prabhsimran Singh c A Nayak b Palai 33, Deepin Chitkara c Nayak b B Mallick 66, Jaish Jain (not out) 59, Kuwar Pathak c B Mohanty (Sub) b Palai 2, Rahul Kashyap c Palai b B Mallick 5, Prerit Dutta c Jena b Palai 1, Rohit Kumar c Jena b Palai 22, Mandeep Singh (not out) 1; Extras (b-12, lb-1) 13
Total (9 wickets declared; 100 overs) 452
Fall of wickets: 1-154 (J Singh, 54.5 ov), 2-258 (Verma, 77.4), 3-270 (Wadhera, 79.3), 4-311 (P Singh, 85.1), 5-403 (Chitkara, 94.3), 6-406 (Pathak, 95.1), 7-417 (Kashyap, 96.2), 8-427 (Dutta, 97.2), 9-451 (R Kumar, 99.2)
Bowling: Shekhar Majhi 13-3-53-0, Rajesh Mohanty 15-2-57-0, Pritam Jena 24-3-94-1, Krishna Palai 27-4-124-5, Biswajit Mallick 19-4-88-2, Swastik Samal 2-0-23-0.
ODISHA (2nd innings): S Samal lbw Dutta 8, K Mallick c P Singh b M Singh 7, P Jena lbw Kashyap 10, MR Nayak c P Singh b R Kumar 41, A Nayak lbw Chitkara 22, R Malla c Chitkara b Dutta 34, J Behera c J Singh b R Kumar 0, S Majhi b Dutta 14, K Palai (not out) 2, B Mallick st P Singh b R Kumar 2, R Mohanty b Dutta 12; Extras (nb-2, b-18) 20
Total (All out; 68.5 overs) 172
Fall of wickets: 1-13 (K Mallick, 2.5 ov), 2-15 (Samal, 5.2), 3-52 (Jena, 17.1), 4-93 (A Nayak, 28.5), 5-119 (MR Nayak 43.1), 6-119 (J Behera 43.4), 7-151 (R Malla, 58.4), 8-156 (Majhi, 64.1), 9-159 (B Mallick, 65.6), 10-172 (R Mohanty, 68.5)
Bowling: Mandeep Singh 11-0-42-1, Prerit Dutta 19.5-11-30-4, Rahul Kashyap 16-8-31-1, Deepin Chitkara 9-4-14-1, Rohit Kumar 13-4-37-3.
