CUTTACK 02-Jan-1960
Riding on a match haul of eight wickets for 81 and first-innings half-century by captain Sasanka Sekhar Patnaik and B Sridhar Alva, Orissa held Bihar to a draw in their three-day East Zone Ranji Trophy match, which ended at Barabati Stadium in Cuttack today.
But the outcome proved to be a morale victory for Orissa as they took first-innings lead for the first time in a Ranji Trophy match against Bihar. Pacer Satpathy bagged six wickets for 52 runs to help Orissa restrict Bihar to 208 in the first innings.
In reply, the home team compiled 252 to take a lead of 44 runs. Among Orissa batsmen, Patnaik top scored with an unbeaten 75, while Alva slammed 72. In the second innings, Bihar declared at 141 for five, while Orissa replied with 39 for two. Three players _ Gopal Das, B K Sikdar and N Manjay Shetty _ made their first-class debut for Odisha.
SCOREBOARD (Orissa Ranji Match No 18):
BIHAR (1st innings): DV Pichamuthu not out 93, S Sanyal c Rama Rao b Satpathy 0, +SN Kuckreja b Satpathy 4, PN Bhandari c Rama Rao b Swamy 27, *S Das c SS Patnaik b Satpathy 11, Loganathan b Ranganna 5, MK Roy c Satpathy b Sikdar 29, Premsagar b Satpathy 18, A Kumar b Satpathy 0, SK Mukherjee b Swamy 9, BK Bose b Satpathy 1; Extras 11
Total (all out, 101 overs) 208
Fall of wickets: 1-1, 2-7, 3-37, 4-74, 5-85, 6-143, 7-174, 8-174, 9-?, 10-208
Orissa bowling: Satpathy 35-10-52-6, Shetty 4-1-4-0, Swamy 31-8-71-2, Alva 5-1-13-0, Jena 5-2-7-0, Ranganna 13-5-24-1, Sikdar 8-1-26-1.
ORISSA (1st innings): Gopal Das run out 17, BK Sikdar c Roy b Das 0, Bisuddhananda Jena lbw Kumar 32, B Sridhar Alva b Das 72, *Sasanka Sekhar Patnaik not out 75, KS Ranganna lbw Bose 11, B Patnaik run out 7, NN Swamy c Roy b Das 6, +MV Rama Rao lbw Das 2, Santanu K Satpathy b Das 0, N Manjay Shetty lbw Das 0; Extras 30
Total (all out, 123.5 overs) 252
Fall of wickets: 1-?, 2-?, 3-?, 4-?, 5-?, 6-?, 7-?, 8-?, 9-?, 10-252
Bihar bowling: Das 30.5-14-45-6, Premsagar 4-1-12-0, Roy 10-0-20-0, Bose 47-23-65-1, Bhandari 10-1-33-0, Kumar 18-3-35-1, Sanyal 4-0-12-0.
BIHAR (2nd innings): DV Pichamuthu c Rama Rao b Swamy 27, S Sanyal run out 30, +SN Kuckreja lbw Satpathy 27, PN Bhandari not out 31, *S Das b Satpathy 8, SK Mukherjee hit wkt b Ranganna 8, Loganathan not out 3; Extras 7
Total (5 wickets, declared, 38 overs) 141
Fall of wickets: 1-?, 2-?, 3-?, 4-?, 5-?
Orissa bowling: Satpathy 11-1-29-2, Shetty 1-0-8-0, Swamy 13-2-49-1, Jena 6-1-22-0, Ranganna 7-0-26-1.
ORISSA (2nd innings): BK Sikdar c Mukherjee b Bose 0, B Jena not out 13, SK Satpathy b Bose 0, BS Alva not out 25; Extras 1
Total (2 wickets, 15 overs) 39
Fall of wickets: 1-?, 2-?
Bihar bowling: Das 7-4-13-0, Bose 7-2-16-2, Mukherjee 1-0-9-0.
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