Odisha U-19 boys finish last in Cooch Behar Trophy

Odisha Under-19 cricket team ended their Cooch Behar Trophy campaign on a disappointing note as they lost to Delhi by 253 runs on the fourth and last day of their Group-A league match at Barabati Stadium here today. This was the fourth defeat for Odisha, who finished at the bottom of the group table with two points from six matches. On the other hand, Delhi emerged Group-A toppers with 31 points.

Odisha started their last league match on an encouraging note by restricting Delhi to 244 in the first innings. But thereafter Delhi dominated the show in all departments of the game. They first took a 19-run first-innings lead by dismissing Odisha for 225 and then mustered a healthy total of 364 in the second innings.

Odisha suffered the crushing defeat as they were bundled out for 130 while chasing a victory target of 384. Delhi opener Sanat Sangwan was the most impressive performer of the match, scoring a century in the first innings and a fifty in the second. For Odisha, Krishna Palai excelled with his bowling, bagging five wickets in the first inning and three in the second.

SCOREBOARD

DELHI (1st innings): Sanat Sangwan c Majhi b Palai 121, Anuj Rawat lbw A Sahu 21, Priyansh Arya c Samal b Majhi 11, Ayush Badoni lbw A Sahu 18, Mayank Rawat ct & b A Sahu 6, Vaibhav Kandpal c Mallick b Palai 50, Gulzar Singh Sandhu b A Sahu 1, Harsh Tyagi c Majhi b Palai 1, Hrithik Shokeen (not out) 2, Nikhil Kumar c Samal b Palai 3, Lovnish Singh b Palai 0; Extras (nb-1, w-4, b-4, lb-1) 10
Total (All out; 70.4 overs) 244
Fall of wickets: 1-23 (A Rawat, 2.5 ov), 2-43 (Arya, 6.2), 3-89 (Badoni, 17.4), 4-109 (M Rawat, 21.6), 5-233 (Sangwan, 58.6), 6-238 (Sandhu, 61.5), 7-238 (Kandpal, 62.5), 8-239 (Tyagi, 64.3), 9-244 (N Kumar, 70.1),
10-244 (L Singh, 70.4)
Bowling: Ayaskant Sahu 20-6-64-4, Shibasish Sahoo 6-0-33-0, Shekhar Majhi 12-2-43-1, Sisir K Behera 12-4-38-0, Krishna Palai 13.4-2-33-5, Somen Chand 7-1-28-0.

ODISHA (1st innings): Swastik Samal lbw L Singh 35, Binit Mohanty c A Rawat b N Kumar 2, Kunal Mallick c N Kumar b Tyagi 11, Raghunath Malla c A Rawat b L Singh 39, Jyoti Behera b L Singh 41, Sisir Behera st A Rawat b Tyagi 9, Somen Chand st A Rawat b Tyagi 20, Ayaskant Sahu lbw Tyagi 0, Shekhar Majhi ct & b Tyagi 41, Krishna Palai ct M Rawat b L Singh 3, Shibasish Sahoo (not out) 11; Extras (w-6, b-1, lb-6) 13
Total (All out; 96.4 overs) 225
Fall of wickets: 1-38 (Samal, 13.5 ov), 2-38 (B Mohanty, 14.3), 3-67 (Mallick, 24.6), 4-131 (Malla, 55.2), 5-132 (J Behera, 57.1), 6-146 (S Behera, 60.3), 7-150 (A Sahu, 62.2), 8-167 (Chand, 68.3), 9-178 (Palai, 79.6), 10-225 (Majhi, 96.4).
Bowling: Lovnish Singh 21-2-85-4, Nikhil Kumar 18-4-41-1, Harsh Tyagi 38.4-19-56-5, Hrithik Shokeen 13-5-19-0, Mayank Rawat 6-2-17-0.

DELHI (2nd innings): A Rawat b S Sahoo 69, S Sangwan c Mallick b S Sahoo 73, P Arya b Palai 45, M Rawat c Mallick b Majhi 5, V Kandpal lbw S Sahoo 53, A Badoni c B Mohanty b Palai 16, GS Sandhu (not out) 64, H Tyagi lbw A Sahu 4, H Shokeen c Chand b A Sahu 0, N Kumar b Majhi 4, L Singh b Palai 4; Extras (b-18, lb-1, nb-1, w-7) 27
Total (All out; 106.5 overs) 364
Fall of wickets: 1-111 (A Rawat, 33.2), 2-196 (Arya, 52.3), 3-201 (M Rawat, 53.3), 4-222 (Sangwan, 61.5), 5-253 (Badoni, 68.6), 6-295 (Kandpal, 87.3), 7-311 (Tyagi, 93.1), 8-311 (Shokeen, 93.4), 9-321 (N Kumar, 98.1), 10-364 (L Singh, 106.5)
Bowling: Ayaskant Sahu 51-6-75-2, Shibasish Sahoo 22-5-71-3, Shekhar Majhi 21-3-77-2, Binit Mohanty 1-0-6-0, Somen Chand 8-2-26-0, Krishna Palai 29.5-3-90-3.

ODISHA (2nd innings): K Mallick c M Rawat b L Singh 0, BK Mohanty lbw N Kumar 0, S Samal c Kandpal b N Kumar 24, S Behera b N Kumar 0, R Malla c A Rawat b L Singh 22, J Behera c M Rawat b Shokeen 30, S Chand c Kandpal b L Singh 0, A Sahu c Tyagi b Badoni 1, S Majhi b N Kumar 1, K Palai (run out) Arya 10, S Sahoo (not out) 30; Extras (w-1, b-5, lb-6) 12
Total (All out; 45.1 overs) 130
Fall of wickets: 1-0 (Mallick, 0.1), 2-4 (B Mohanty, 1.5), 3-8 (S Behera, 3.2), 4-48 (Samal, 12.6), 5-65 (Malla, 18.3), 6-65 (Chand, 18.4), 7-66 (A Sahu, 19.2), 8-84 (J Behera, 27.5), 9-84 (Majhi, 28.2), 10-130 (Palai, 45.1 ov)
Bowling: Lovnish Singh 13-2-52-3, Nikhil Kumar 13-3-38, Harsh Tyagi 5.1-1-5-0, Hrithik Shokeen 7-2-16-1, Ayush Badoni 4-2-5-1, Mayank Rawat 2-1-1-0, Priyansh Arya 1-0-2-0.