CUTTACK 11-Dec-1966
Host Bihar thrashed Orissa by nine wickets in their three-day Ranji Trophy East Zone match, which ended with a day to spare at Keenan Stadium in Jamshedpur today. With this win, Bihar avenged the first defeat they had suffered against Orissa last year at Barabati Stadium, Cuttack. This was also Bihar’s eighth win in 12 Ranji Trophy matches against Orissa.
Bihar won half of their latest encounter by taking a first-innings lead of 155 runs. In reply to Orissa’s modest total of 184, which included an unbeaten 49 by Sanjay Satpathy, Bihar rode on a century by stumper Daljit Singh and a half-century each by Kalyan Mitter and Ramesh Saxena to compile an imposing total of 339.
In the second innings, Orissa declared at 213 for nine, leaving an easy tartet of 59 runs for Bihar to win the match. It was surprising that Orissa chose to declare their second innings without sending debutant R K Bhave to bat. The home team clinched victory, losing the wicket of their captain Rajendranath Sanyal.
SCOREBOARD (Orissa Ranji Match No 35):
ORISSA (1st innings): BK Sikdar c Daljit Singh b Kapoor 4, KN Patra c Saxena b Shukla 37, +Bisuddhananda Jena c Daljit Singh b Kapoor 2, Madan M Mohanty b Kapoor 20, RK Bhave c Sanyal b Kapoor 12, K Patel lbw b Shukla 1, *NN Swamy run out 5, BJ Godbole b Roy 24, Sanjay Satpathy not out 49, Bibekananda Jena c Kapoor b Shukla 0, DS Murthy c Mitter b Chauhan 19; Extras 11
Total (all out, 50 overs) 184
Fall of wickets: 1-?, 2-?, 3-?, 4-?, 5-?, 6-?, 7-?, 8-?, 9-?, 10-184
Bihar bowling: Kapoor 15-1-61-4, Roy 11-3-34-1, Shukla 15-1-46-3, Nagaswamy 5-0-24-0, Chauhan 4-1-8-1.
BIHAR (1st innings): +Daljit Singh c Sikdar b Swamy 100, G Ghosh c Bibek Jena b Satpathy 0, K Mitter c Murthy b Swamy 72, RC Saxena run out 52, *R Sanyal lbw Swamy 3, A Shukla lbw Patra 8, SK Kapoor c Satpathy b Murthy 37, K Chakravarthy c Patra b Satpathy 5, S Nagaswamy lbw b Murthy 24, G Chauhan not out 23, RP Roy c Satpathy b Patel 3; Extras 12
Total (all out, 71.3 overs) 339
Fall of wickets: 1-?, 2-?, 3-?, 4-?, 5-?, 6-?, 7-?, 8-?, 9-?, 10-339
Orissa bowling: Swamy 22-2-98-3, Satpathy 13-3-61-2, Murthy 23-4-77-2, Patel 7.3-1-42-1, Patra 6-0-49-1.
ORISSA (2nd innings): BK Sikdar c Daljit Singh b Kapoor 4, KN Patra c Mitter b Roy 0, +Bisuddh Jena b Shukla 24, MM Mohanty c Shukla b Chauhan 68, K Patel c Saxena b Kapoor 8, *NN Swamy c Saxena b Kapoor 34, BJ Godbole b Shukla 37, S Satpathy b Kapoor 11, Bibek Jena b Sanyal 15, DS Murthy not out 0, RK Bhave did not bat; Extras 12
Total (9 wickets, declared, 52.5 overs) 213
Fall of wickets: 1-?, 2-?, 3-?, 4-?, 5-?, 6-?, 7-?, 8-?, 9-213
Bihar bowling: Kapoor 18-3-74-4, Roy 10-1-40-1, Shukla 13-1-40-2, Nagaswamy 1-0-8-0, Chauhan 7-0-29-1, Sanyal 3.5-0-10-1.
BIHAR (2nd innings): RC Saxena not out 28, *R Sanyal c Patra b Swamy 9, G Ghosh not out 21; Extras 1
Total (1 wicket, 6.4 overs) 59
Fall of wickets: 1-?
Orissa bowling: Swamy 3-0-23-1, Satpathy 3.4-0-35-0.
