Ranji Trophy: Shukla double ton destroys Orissa

Unbeaten double hundred by Anand Shukla powered Bihar to an innings and 77-run win over Orissa on the last day of their three-day Ranji Trophy East Zone match at Barabati Stadium in Cuttack today. This Bihar’s ninth win, including two by an innings in 13 Ranji Trophy matches against Orissa.

The majestic unbaten knock of 242 by Shukla enabled Bihar take a first-innings lead of 213 runs as they declared at 406 for four, in reply to a respectable total of 193 by Orissa, who were put into bat by Bihar captain Rajendranath Sanyal. Besided the double ton by Shukla, one half-century each was scored by Sanyal and K Mitter.

Needing 214 to avoid innings defeat, Orissa were bowled out for 136 in the second innings. Needless to say that batting failure led to the defeat for the home team. Among Orissa batsmen, captain Bisuddhananda Jena was the only one who was able to score a half-century.

SCOREBOARD (Match No 39):

ORISSA (1st innings):
BK Sikdar c Moitra b Anand 23, HT Rathod lbw b Anand 0, *Bisuddhananda Jena c sub b Shukla 58, Ashokananda Jena b Chauhan 11, Madan Mohan Mohanty run out 7, LI Parija lbw Shukla 2, NN Swamy b Anand 36, +SS Misra c sub b Shukla 22, Kanak Patel lbw Shukla 7, Arun Patel st Daljit Singh b Shukla 15, Sanjay Satpathy not out 5; Extras 7
Total (all out, 69.3 overs) 193
Fall of wickets:
1-?, 2-?, 3-?, 4-?, 5-?, 6-?, 7-?, 8-?, 9-?, 10-193
Bihar bowling: Anand 17-2-44-3, Chatterjee 10-1-47-0, Shukla 26.3-5-68-5, Chauhan 16-6-27-1.

BIHAR (1st innings): KS Chatrapalsinhji lbw Satpathy 4, SK Bose c & b Swamy 22, A Shukla not out 242, +Daljit Singh lbw Swamy 1, *R Sanyal c Sikdar b Swamy 65, K Mitter not out 66, G Chauhan did not bat, HS Anand did not bat, A Chatterjee did not bat, H Moitra did not bat, S Nagaswamy did not bat; Extras 6
Total (4 wickets, declared, 69 overs) 406
Fall of wickets:
1-?, 2-?, 3-79, 4-228
Orissa bowling: Satpathy 13-0-79-1, A Patel 24-1-95-0, Swamy 6-0-74-3, K Patel 5-0-28-0, Parija 5-0-19-0, A Jena 13-0-74-0, Rathod 3-0-31-0.

ORISSA (2nd innings): BK Sikdar b Chatterjee 8, HT Rathod c Chauhan b Mitter 31, *B Jena b Chatterjee 4, A Jena c Bose b Chatterjee 44, MM Mohanty b Mitter 1, LI Parija c Sanyal b Shukla 1, NN Swamy c & b Shukla 5, +SS Misra st Daljit Singh b Shukla 21, K Patel c Shukla b Chatterjee 6, A Patel lbw b Mitter 11, S Satpathy not out 2; Extras 2
Total (all out, 53.5 overs) 136
Fall of wickets:
1-?, 2-?, 3-?, 4-?, 5-?, 6-?, 7-?, 8-?, 9-?, 10-136
Bihar bowling: Anand 8-3-21-0, Chatterjee 18-5-46-4, Shukla 14.5-3-43-3, Mitter 13-4-24-3.

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