Team Orisports 25-Dec-1956
Brilliant second-innings knock of 152 by MS Ananthaswamy Rao helped Orissa draw their four-day East Zone Ranji Trophy match against Bihar at Keenan Stadium in Jamshedpur today. Bihar, however, won the match by virtue of taking first-innings lead of 21 runs.
Electing to bat, Orissa rode on a half-century by captain Banabasi Patnaik to make 196. In reply, Bihar mustered 217 to take the lead. In the second innings, Orissa declared at 350 for seven, while Bihar reached 254 for four at stumps on the final day.
Among other successful Orissa players, wicket-keeper T Ram Sastry registered his maiden first-class half-century with 65 in the second innings, while DS Murthy claimed four wickets for 49 runs in the first innings.
SCOREBOARD (Orissa Ranji Match No 10):
ORISSA (first innings): SS Patnaik c Chatterjee b Das 31, LI Parija lbw b Sinha 13, *B Patnaik c Banerjee b Om Prakash 59, MS Ananthaswamy Rao b Bose 21, +T Ram Sastry run out 25, RP Kapoor c Bose b Chatterjee 9, NN Swamy c Banerjee b Das 11, ND Bardhan b Om Prakash 3, JK Patnaik c Dutta b Bose 5, SK Prasad not out 8, DS Murthy b Bose 5; Extras 6
Total (all out, 62.4 overs) 196
Fall of wickets: 1-45, 2-45, 3-90, 4-127, 5-146, 6-167, 7-171, 8-178, 9-190, 10-196
Bihar bowling: Bose 18.4-3-64-3, Om Prakash 17-8-29-2, Ghosh 3-0-11-0, Das 12-4-31-2, Sinha 9-0-43-1, Patel 1-0-7-0, Chatterjee 2-0-5-1.
BIHAR (1st innings): S Das c Parija b Bardhan 24, S Sanyal run out 25, +T Dutta c Swamy b B Patnaik 49, S Om Prakash b Murthy 29, S Ghosh lbw b Murthy 15, P Marcose c Ram Sastry b Murthy 10, SN Banerjee c Swamy b Bardhan 18, *BK Bose b Prasad 6, PK Chatterjee c B Patnaik b Murthy 13, SS Patel lbw b Prasad 10, S Sinha not out 9; Extras (9-b) 9
Total (all out, 85 overs) 217
Fall of wickets: 1-?, 2-?, 3-?, 4-?, 5-?, 6-?, 7-?, 8-?, 9-?, 10-217
Orissa bowling: Prasad 14-5-29-2, Bardhan 22-2-54-2, Kapoor 3-0-8-0, Murthy 22-6-49-4, Parija 7-1-18-0, B Patnaik 14-3-39-1, JK Patnaik 3-0-11-0.
ODISHA (2nd innings): SS Patnaik st Dutta b Sinha 16, LI Parija lbw b Bose 23, JK Patnaik c Das b Ghosh 0, MS Ananthaswamy Rao c Patel b Bose 152, *B Patnaik b Banerjee 17, RP Kapoor c Chatterjee b Patel 21, +T Ram Sastry st Dutta b Das 65, NN Swamy not out 27; Extras 29
Did not bat: ND Bardhan, SK Prasad, DS Murthy
Total (7 wickets, declared, 91.3 overs) 350
Fall of wickets: 1-32, 2-32, 3-54, 4-96, 5-149, 6-289, 7-350
Bihar bowling: Bose 21.3-3-61-2, Om Prakash 17-4-45-0, Ghosh 8-0-35-1, Das 11-1-34-1, Sinha 8-2-35-1, Patel 6-0-39-1, Chatterjee 4-0-16-0, Banerjee 16-5-56-1.
BIHAR (2nd innings): S Sanyal b Bardhan 1, S Om Prakash c Bardhan b Prasad 24, +T Dutta run out 91, S Das run out 80, S Ghosh not out 10, P Marcose not out 1; Extras 47
Total (4 wickets, 111 overs) 254
Fall of wickets: 1-7, 2-27, 3-224, 4-224
Orissa bowling: Prasad 22-6-59-1, Bardhan 22-6-36-1, Kapoor 12-2-29-0, Murthy 18-14-4-0, Parija 10-4-18-0, B Patnaik 15-6-32-0, JK Patnaik 5-2-8-0, SS Patnaik 2-0-3-0, Swamy 2-1-3-0, Ananthaswamy Rao 3-1-15-0.
