CUTTACK 03-Dec-1970
Match haul of 12 wickets for 49 runs by medium-fast bowler Subrata Guha enabled Bengal beat Orissa by an innings and 122 runs on the last day of their three-day Ranji Trophy East Zone match at Eden Gardens in Calcutta today. This was Orissa’s 17th defeat and 14th by innings margin in 18 Ranji Trophy matches against Bengal.
Put into bat by Orissa captain NN Swamy, Bengal rode on a half-century each by Prakash Poddar, Gopal Bose and Shyam Sundar Mitra to compile a sizeable total of 286. In reply Orissa were dismissed for 51 in the first innings and 113 in the second after being forced to follow on.
The star of the match was Subrata Guha, who captured seven wickets for 29 runs in the first innings and five for 20 in the second. The seven for 29 was his best innings haul in first-class cricket, the previous best being seven for 49. He also completed 100 wickets in Ranji Trophy, dismissing BR Rao in the first innings.
SCOREBOARD (Match No 48):
BENGAL (1st innings): D Mitra c Jena b Swamy 18, PC Poddar c Jena b Swamy 58, GK Bose lbw Jena 72, *AK Roy b Swamy 0, SS Mitra not out 99, P Chail b Jena 0, S Guha c Pendarkar b AP Mohanty 20, R Banerjee c Vijh b AP Mohanty 4, +RA Jeejeebhoy c Jena b AP Mohanty 5, DR Doshi run out 4, R Bhatia run out 0; Extras 6
Total (all out, 92.1 overs) 286
Fall of wickets: 1-64 (D Mitra), 2-101 (Poddar), 3-101 (Roy), 4-189 (Bose), 5-189 (Chail), 6-229 (Guha), 7-237 (Banerjee), 8-269 (Jeejeebhoy), 9-286 (Doshi), 10-286 (Bhatia, 92.1 ov)
Orissa bowling: AP Mohanty 16-3-49-3, Rao 27.1-2-87-0, B Mohanty 2-0-6-0, Swamy 29-5-78-3, Patel 6-1-21-0, Ghosh 4-0-19 -0, Jena 8-2-20-2.
ORISSA (1st innings): Asit B Goswami b Guha 4, +Vinod N Pendarkar b Guha 7, Bikram Mohanty b Guha 11, Harish Vijh not out 18, Ashokananda Jena c Bose b Guha 0, *NN Swamy b Guha 2, Arun Patel st Jeejeebhoy b Doshi 1, Sujit Mohanty c Jeejeebhoy b Doshi 0, Babu R Rao b Guha 0, Aditya P Mohanty b Guha 0, Supti K Ghosh run out 3; Extras 5
Total (all out, 30 overs) 51
Fall of wickets: 1-6 (Goswami), 2-23 (Pendarkar), 3-26 (B Mohanty), 4-26 (Jena), 5-28 (Swamy), 6-29 (Patel), 7-29 (S Mohanty), 8-32 (Rao), 9-32 (AP Mohanty), 10-51 (Ghosh, 30 ov)
Bengal bowling: Guha 15-5-29-7, Bhatia 4-0-11-0, Doshi 9-7-5-2, Bose 2-1-1-0.
ORISSA (2nd innings, following on): AB Goswami b Guha 0, +VN Pendarkar b Guha 15, B Mohanty c Jeejeebhoy b Banerjee 0, H Vijh c Jeejeebhoy b Guha 36, A Patel b Guha 3, *NN Swamy b Bhatia 18, A Jena c Bhatia b Bose 6, S Mohanty run out 4, BR Rao b Guha 21, AP Mohanty c Poddar b Doshi 0, SK Ghosh not out 0; Extras 10
Total (all out, 43.2 overs) 113
Fall of wickets: 1-0 (Goswami), 2-17 (B Mohanty), 3-17 (Pendarkar), 4-21 (Patel), 5-46 (Swamy), 6-64 (Jena), 7-72 (S Mohanty), 8-108 (Rao), 9-113 (Vijh), 10-113 (AP Mohanty, 43.2 ov)
Bengal bowling: Guha 13-6-20-5, Banerjee 8-3-20-1, Bhatia 4-0-14-1, Doshi 12.2-6-15-1, Bose 6-1-34-1.
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PHOTO: File picture of Bengal bowler Subrata Guha.
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