Vijay Merchant Trophy: Odisha finish 3rd with one win

Odisha trounced hosts Tripura by 10 wickets to bag seven points on the third and last day of their Vijay Merchant Trophy East Zone U-16 league match at Police Training Academy Ground in Agartala today.

This was the first and only win in five matches for Odisha, who finished third in the zonal league table with 14 points. Bengal emerged champions with 28 points, while Jharkhand settled with 25 points.

Two players put up impressive performance for Odisha in their match against Tripura. Shresth Singh bagged five wickets for 39 runs in the first innings and eight for 71 in the match, while Bibhansu Sekhar Ray notched up a century (111 off 200 balls, 21x4, 1x6) in the first innings.

SCOREBOARD

TRIPURA
(1st innings): Nabarun Chakraborty lbw Shresth 38, Subhradeep Bhattacharjee lbw Melaka 0, Saptajit Das b Melaka 0, Anandh Bhowmik b Shresth 44, Sahil Sultan (run out) Mohapatra 27, Siddharth Guha c Majhi b Shresth 1, Akash Ahamed c Melaka b Mohapatra 8, Rahul Ghosh c Chhuria b Mohapatra 0, Arkajit Das b Shresth 0, Pamir Debnath lbw Shresth 5, Diptanu Chakraborty (not out) 2; Extras (nb-1, b-1, lb-1) 3
Total (All out; 54.3 overs) 128
Fall of wickets:
1-5 (Subhradeep, 2.2 ov), 2-5 (Saptajit, 2.6), 3-68 (Nabarun, 22.4), 4-95 (Anandh, 34.5), 5-97 (Siddharth, 38.5), 6-121 (Sahil, 47.2), 7-121 (Akash, 47.3), 8-121 (Rahul, 47.6), 9-121 (Arkajit, 48.2), 10-128 (Pamir, 54.3)
Bowling: Ramesh Melaka 6-2-21-2, Ashutosh Chhuria 8-0-25-0, Sobhan Dev Behera 5-1-14-0, Shresth Singh 19.3-8-39-5, Ashutosh Samal 4-0-13-0, Surya Mohapatra 12-5-14-2.

ODISHA (1st innings): Biswa Bibhab Muduli lbw Diptanu 49, Biswajit Patra lbw Diptanu 14, Surya Mohapatra b Arkajit 2, Ashutosh Sahoo b Arkajit 25, Bibhansu S Ray lbw P Debnath 111, Dinesh Majhi c Akash b Sultan 0, Ramesh Melaka b Sultan 0, Sobhan Dev Behera c Akash b R Ghosh 5, Ashutosh Chhuria b R Ghosh 2, Ashutosh Samal c Akash b R Ghosh 0, Shresth Singh (not out) 5; Extras (b-13, lb-4) 17
Total (All out; 90.4 overs) 230
Fall of wickets:
1-58 (Patra, 21.2 ov), 2-73 (Mohapatra, 24.5), 3-73 (Muduli, 25.1), 4-117 (A Sahoo, 50.4), 5-124 (Majhi, 53.4), 6-136 (Melaka, 55.6), 7-169 (SD Behera, 70.6), 8-193 (Chhuria, 78.2), 9-197 (Samal, 80.1), 10-230 (Bibhansu, 90.4)
Bowling: Pamir Debnath 5.4-0-25-1, Arkajit Das 19-8-41-2, Diptanu Chakraborty 16-7-29-2, Sahil Sultan 30-16-53-2, Rahul Ghosh 18-6-61-3, Anandh Bhowmik 2-1-4-0.

TRIPURA (2nd innings): N Chakraborty b Mohapatra 26, S Bhattacharjee b Melaka 1, S Das b Melaka 0, A Bhowmik c A Sahoo b Mohapatra 21, S Sultan b S Singh 12, S Guha c Majhi b Melaka 5, P Debnath c Majhi b Chhuria 18, A Ahmed b S Singh 1, R Ghosh c Patra b Chhuria 1, A Das c B Ray b S Singh 33, D Chakraborty (not out) 0; Extras (w-2, b-2, lb-2) 6
Total (All out, 81.4 overs) 124
Fall of wickets:
1-13 (Bhattacharjee, 6.5 ov), 2-21 (S Das, 8.5), 3-48 (Chakraborty), 4-57 (Bhowmik, 28.5), 5-61 (Sultan, 35.5), 6-70 (Guha, 46.1), 7-71 (Ahamed, 49.4), 8-72 (R Ghosh, 50.2), 9-120 (P Debnath, 80.6), 10-124 (A Das, 81.4)
Bowling: R Melaka 17-8-24-3, A Chhuria 15-8-27-2, S Singh 27.4-16-32-3, Surya Mohapatra 18-12-18-2, A Samal 3-0-11-0, SD Behera 1-0-8-0.

ODISHA (2nd innings): BB Muduli (not out) 22, B Patra (not out) 4
Total (0 wicket, 10.1 overs) 26
Bowling:
S Sultan 5.1-2-8-0, D Chakraborty 1-0-4-0, R Ghosh 2-0-9-0, A Das 2-0-5-0.
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PHOTO: Members of Odisha U-16 team pose after their win over Tripura in Agartala on Nov 20, 2018.

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