Vijay Merchant Trophy: Punjab eliminate Odisha in PQF

Odisha bowed out from the Vijay Merchant Trophy U-16 Cricket Tournament after conceding first-innings lead against Punjab in their four-day pre-quarterfinal match, which ended in a draw at Railway Cricket Ground in Rajkot today.

Put into bat by Punjab captain Manroop Singh, Odisha made a competitive total of 251, thanks to a century by Tanay Kumar Biswal (116) and a half-century by opener Sudarshan Swain (65).

In reply, Punjab rode on a double hundred by Uday Saharan (217) and a century each by Mayank Gupta (126) and Manroop Singh (105) to muster a huge total of 597. Ansuman Bej was the most successful Odisha bowler, bagging five wickets for 148 runs.

After conceding a first-innings lead of 346 runs, Odisha were 87 for three in their second innings at stumps on the final day. The highlight of the second innings was an unbeaten 53 by Saideep Mohapatra.

SCOREBOARD:

ODISHA
(1st innings): Aashirwad Swain lbw M Singh 0, Sudarshan Swain c Gupta b Bhagat 65, Saideep Mohapatra lbw M Singh 0, Tanay K Biswal b Chahal 116, Md Sohail Khan lbw Chahal 4, Subham Naik c Chahal b Aditya 5, Tarini Prasad Nayak c Gupta b Chahal 0, Shresth Singh c Gupta b Aditya 8, Mohammed Zishan lbw Chahal 20, Ansuman Bej not out 14, Rakesh Kumar Sahoo b Aditya 0; Extras (nb-3, w-3, b-8, lb-5) 19
Total (All out; 133 overs) 251
Fall of wickets:
1-0 (Aashirwad Swain, 0.3 ov), 2-0 (Mohapatra, 0.6), 3-96 (Sudarshan Swain, 42.2), 4-105 (Khan, 47.4), 5-127 (Naik, 52.6), 6-144 (Nayak, 77.6), 7-187 (S Singh, 98.1), 8-225 (Biswal, 115.3), 9-246 (Zishan, 131.6), 10-251 (Sahoo, 132.6)
Bowling: Manroop Singh 24-10-39-2, Krish Bhagat 18-8-40-1, Aditya 27-8-65-3, Uday Saharan 3-0-6-0, Emanjot Singh Chahal 33-14-48-4, Akashjit Dhillon 28-13-40-0.

PUNJAB (1st innings): Kabir Garg c Bej b Zishan 23, Shivein Rakheja lbw Zishan 0, Uday Saharan c Mohapatra b Bej 217, Mayank Gupta c Aashirwad Swain b Sahoo 126, Sanraj Singh Rattanpal run out (Bej) 11, Aryan Bhatia     c Aashirwad Swain b Bej 59, Akashjit Dhillon b Zishan 18, Manroop Singh c Biswal b Bej 105, Aditya b Bej 5, Krish Bhagat lbw Bej 9, Emanjot Singh Chahal not out 2; Extras (nb-1, w-3, b-7, lb-11) 22
Total (All out; 164.3 overs) 597
Fall of wickets:
1-8 (Rakheja, 1.4 ov), 2-27 (Garg, 11.5), 3-309 (Gupta, 89.1), 4-358 (Rattanpal, 102.6), 5-392 (Saharan, 113.2), 6-436 (Dhillon, 127.5), 7-559 (Bhatia, 150.3), 8-571 (Aditya, 154.5), 9-593 (M Singh, 162.2), 10-597 (Bhagat, 164.3)
Bowling: Rakesh Kumar Sahoo 27-3-103-1, Mohammed Zishan 28-8-82-3, Tarini Prasad Nayak 24-4-93-0, Ansuman Bej 46.3-8-148-5, Shresth Singh 12-1-48-0, Saideep Mohapatra 23-0-87-0, Md Sohail Khan 4-1-18-0.

ODISHA (2nd innings): Sudarshan Swain c Rattanpal b Aditya 0, Aashirwad Swain lbw Aditya 10, Saideep Mohapatra not out 53, Tanay K Biswal c Rakheja b Dhillon 8, MS Khan not out 14; Extras (lb-2) 2
Total (3 wickets; 27 overs) 87
Did not bat:
Ansuman Bej, Shresth Singh, Tarini Prasad Nayak, Rakesh Kumar Sahoo, Subham Naik, Mohammed Zishan.
Fall of wickets: 1-0 (Sudarshan Swain, 0.3), 2-33 (Aashirwad Swain, 8.4), 3-54 (Biswal, 13.4 ov)
Bowling: Aditya 8-0-32-2, Krish Bhagat 5-0-24-0, Akashjit Dhillon 7-2-11-1, Emanjot Singh Chahal 4-3-6-0, Sanraj Singh Rattanpal 2-0-11-0, Aryan Bhatia 1-0-1-0.

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