Ranji Trophy: Bihar post 10th win over Orissa

Century each by G Tilak Raj and captain Anand Shukla propelled Bihar to 287-run win over Orissa on the last day of their three-day Ranji Trophy East Zone match at Tata Digwadi Stadium in Jamadoba today. This was Bihar’s 10th win in 14 Ranji Trophy matches against Orissa.

Batting first, Bihar declared their first innings at 309 for eight and then bowled out Orissa for 149. In their second innings, Bihar declared at 260 for four to take an overall lead of 420. Chasing a daunting target of 421 for victory, Orissa folded up for 133 in their second innings.

The highlights of the match were the unbeaten knocks of 107 by Tilak Raj in the first innings and 122 by Shukla in the second. Among Orissa players, opening batsman Pranab Kishore Das played well, scoring 41 and 29 in the first and second innings respectively. Prakash Roy Chowdhury made his first-class debut for Orissa in this match.

SCOREBOARD (Match No 43):

BIHAR (1st innings): SK Bose c Jena b Patel 35, KS Chatrapalsinhji c Mahapatra b Mohanty 9, *A Shukla b Mohanty 26, +Daljit Singh b Alva 15, K Mitter c Jena b Alva 46, G Tilak Raj not out 107, S Mukherjee lbw b Patel 4, P Nagarwala c Alva b Patel 27, A Qasim c M Roy Chowdhury b Alva 8, S Roy not out 19, A Chatterjee did not bat; Extras 13
Total (8 wickets, declared, 84 overs) 309
Fall of wickets: 1-?, 2-?, 3-?, 4-?, 5-?, 6-?, 7-?, 8-?
Orissa bowling: Mohanty 21-4-77-2, Satpathy 9-1-27-0, Mahapatra 8-2-18-0, Patel 25-0-113-3, Alva 20-1-58-3, Jena 1-0-3-0.

ORISSA (1st innings): BK Sikdar c Roy b Chatterjee 9, Pranab Kishore Das c Tilak Raj b Qasim 41, Mukul Roy Chowdhury c Daljit Singh b Qasim 8, +AK Channa c Tilak Raj b Shukla 17, Ashokananda Jena c Daljit Singh b Qasim 5, *B Sridhar Alva run out 6, Sanjay Satpathy b Shukla 2, Arun Patel b Shukla 7, Prakash Roy Chowdhury c Mukherjee b Shukla 23, Sabyasachi S Mahapatra not out 1, Aditya P Mohanty c Qasim b Shukla 19; Extras 11
Total (all out, 54.3 overs) 149
Fall of wickets: 1-?, 2-?, 3-?, 4-?, 5-?, 6-?, 7-?, 8-?, 9-?, 10-149
Bihar bowling: Chatterjee 9-3-21-1, Qasim 17-8-28-3, Shukla 19.3-3-71-5, Roy 1-1-0-0, Tilak Raj 5-2-16-0, Mitter 3-1-2-0.

BIHAR (2nd innings): S Mukherjee c Mahapatra b Patel 25, KS Chatrapalsinhji c Channa b Satpathy 75, *A Shukla c P Roy Chowdhury b Patel 122, +Daljit Singh not out 6, K Mitter lbw Alva 3; Extras 29
Total (4 wickets, declared, 48 overs) 260
Fall of wickets: 1-?, 2-?, 3-?, 4-260
Orissa bowling: Mohanty 9-1-48-0, Satpathy 5-1-12-1, Mahapatra 4-0-25-0, Patel 13-1-47-2, Alva 4-3-1-1, Jena 4-0-38-0, P Roy Chowdhury 5-1-21-0, M Roy Chowdhury 4-0-39-0.

ORISSA (2nd innings): BK Sikdar c Roy b Qasim 3, PK Das b Roy 29, M Roy Chowdhury c Daljit Singh b Qasim 4, +AK Channa run out 21, A Jena c Qasim b Mitter 14, *BS Alva c Bose b Mitter 4, S Satpathy c & b Mitter 1, A Patel c Tilak Raj b Shukla 22, P Roy Chowdhury c sub b Mitter 11, AP Mohanty c Daljit Singh b Mitter 1, SS Mahapatra not out 10; Extras 13
Total (all out, 46.2 overs) 133
Fall of wickets: 1-?, 2-?, 3-?, 4-?, 5-?, 6-?, 7-?, 8-?, 9-?, 10-133
Bihar bowling: Qasim 14-5-30-2, Shukla 14-4-34-1, Roy 6-3-12-1, Tilak Raj 1-1-0-0, Mitter 9.2-1-39-5, Mukherjee 1-1-0-0, Bose 1-0-5-0.