Ranji Trophy: Innings lead in vain as Orissa lose

First innings lead and notable performance by DS Murthy, Ashokakanda Jena and Madan Mohanty proved futile as Orissa lost to Bihar by 51 runs in their three-day East Zone Ranji Trophy match at Keenan Stadium in Jamshedpur today. This was Orissa’s seventh defeat in 10 Ranji Trophy matches against Bihar.

Orissa took a 106-run first-innings lead by making 197, in reply to 91 by host Bihar, who chose to bat after winning to the toss. But the home team bounced back in the second innings to muster 344, thanks to a century by century captain Rajendranath Sanyal and half-century each by Sudhir Das and Kanu Chakravarthy.

Orissa lost the match as they folded up for 187 in the second innings, while chasing a challenging target of 239. Among Orissa players who put up notable performance, DS Murthy bagged nine wickets in the match, including five in the first innings, Ashokanda Jena top scored with 70 in the first innings and Madan Mohanty hit 32 and 53 in his two innings.

SCOREBOARD (Orissa Ranji Match No 31):

BIHAR (1st innings): SK Bose lbw Patra 27, S Sanyal b Swamy 1, S Das b Swamy 0, *R Sanyal b Swamy 0, K Chakravarthy b Murthy 42, S Bhagat run out 3, KG Majithia b Murthy 7, P Nagarwala b Murthy 5, G Chauhan lbw Murthy 0, +M Gosavi b Murthy 1, B Ghosh not out 1; Extras 4
Total (all out, 43.1 overs) 91
Fall of wickets: 1-5, 2-7, 3-7, 4-51, 5-62, 6-83, 7-86, 8-86, 9-88, 10-91
Orissa bowling: Swamy 17-7-32-3, Mahapatra 5-2-9-0, Murthy 8.1-3-19-5, Patel 7-2-12-0, Patra 5-1-14-1, Parija 1-0-1-0.

ORISSA (1st innings): Sasanka Sekhar Patnaik b Ghosh 8, *LI Parija lbw b Das 5, +Bisuddhananda Jena lbw b Das 12, MM Mohanty lbw Das 32, Ashokananda Jena c Bose b Das 70, Banabasi Patnaik c & b Majithia 13, NN Swamy run out 16, Arun Patel lbw R Sanyal 13, KN Patra lbw Das 12, Sabyasachi S Mahapatra b Chauhan 10, DS Murthy not out 1; Extras 5
Total (all out, 75.3 overs) 197
Fall of wickets: 1-13, 2-13, 3-34, 4-72, 5-95, 6-127, 7-?, 8-?, 9-?, 10-197
Bihar bowling: Das 26-11-49-5, Ghosh 13-2-61-1, Chauhan 19.3-9-42-1, R Sanyal 5-1-18-1, Majithia 7-2-14-1, Bose 5-1-8-0.

BIHAR (2nd innings): SK Bose c Mohanty b Murthy 24, S Sanyal c Patel b Murthy 29, S Das b Patra 69, *R Sanyal c Swamy b Parija 105, K Chakravarthy lbw Murthy 64, S Bhagat b Parija 3, KG Majithia c Murthy b Parija 5, P Nagarwala run out 6, G Chauhan not out 2, +M Gosavi b Murthy 25, B Ghosh b Patra 1; Extras 11
Total (all out, 79.3 overs) 344
Fall of wickets: 1-?, 2-?, 3-?, 4-?, 5-?, 6-?, 7-?, 8-?, 9-?, 10-344
Orissa bowling: Swamy 14-0-67-0, Mahapatra 8-1-40-0, Murthy 28-3-91-4, Patel 7-0-33-0, Patra 12.3-0-53-2, Parija 10-0-49-3.

ORISSA (2nd innings): SS Patnaik c Gosavi b Bose 13, *LI Parija run out 16, +B Jena lbw Das 23, MM Mohanty c R Sanyal b Bose 53, A Jena c & b Bose 15, B Patnaik not out 13, NN Swamy lbw R Sanyal 1, A Patel c Gosavi b Das 9, KN Patra run out 8, SS Mahapatra b R Sanyal 4, DS Murthy c & b R Sanyal 9; Extras 23
Total (all out, 65 overs) 187
Fall of wickets: 1-?, 2-?, 3-?, 4-?, 5-?, 6-?, 7-?, 8-?, 9-?, 10-187
Bihar bowling: Das 19-4-41-2, Ghosh 8-1-29-0, Chauhan 11-3-22-0, R Sanyal 7-1-17-3, Majithia 8-3-18-0, Bose 12-1-37-3.