CUTTACK 30-Nov-1975
Century each by Raja Mukherjee and Prakash Poddar, coupled with impressive bowling by Aloke Bhattacharjee and Dilip Doshi powered Bengal to an innings and 87-run win over Orissa on the last day of their three-day Ranji Trophy East Zone match at Ispat Stadium in Rourkela today. This was Bengal’s 22nd win and 16th by innings margin in 23 Ranji Trophy matches against Orissa.
After dismissing Orissa, who were put into bat, for 137, Bengal declared at 335 for two to take first-innings lead of 198 runs. In the second innings, Orissa were bowled out for 111. Among Orissa players, Ranjit Sikdar and Vinod Gupta were top scorers in the first and second innings respectively.
SCORECARD (Orissa Match No 62):
ORISSA (1st innings): Mukul Roy Chowdhury c Banerjee b Chakrabarti 3, Ranjit Sikdar c R Mukherjee b Doshi 37, +VN Pendarkar c Guha b Bhattacharjee 18, Vinod Gupta c Banerjee b Bhattacharjee 6, *Madan Mohan Mohanty lbw Doshi 28, B Bishanjee c Nandy b Bhattacharjee 11, Bikram Mohanty lbw Bhattacharjee 6, Babu R Rao c Roy b Doshi 1, Sanjay Satpathy b Doshi 4, Sujit Mohanty not out 14, G Shankar b Doshi 1; Extras 8
Total (all out, 61.4 overs) 137
Fall of wickets: 1-5, 2-50, 3-60, 4-84, 5-105, 6-115, 7-117, 8-118, 9-134, 10-137
Bengal bowling: Guha 6-1-13-0, Chakrabarti 7-2-22-1, Chail 2-1-6-0, Doshi 24.4-6-43-5, Bhattacharjee 22-8-45-4.
BENGAL (1st innings): P Nandy lbw Shankar 44, R Mukherjee not out 154, PC Poddar c Shankar b Gupta 126, A Bhattacharjee not out 6, S Mukherjee DNB, +S Banerjee DNB, AK Roy DNB, *S Guha DNB, P Chail DNB, DR Doshi DNB, S Chakrabarti DNB; Extras 5
Total (2 wickets, declared, 92 overs) 335
Fall of wickets: 1-61, 2-319
Orissa bowling: Satpathy 22-2-87-0, S Mohanty 9-0-32-0, Shankar 19-1-87-1, Rao 20-4-73-0, Gupta 22-2-51-1.
ORISSA (2nd innings): M Roy Chowdhury c Banerjee b Chakrabarti 0, R Sikdar c Banerjee b Guha 0, +VN Pendarkar c Roy b Chakrabarti 9, V Gupta c Banerjee b Bhattacharjee 40, *MM Mohanty c Chail b Guha 12, B Bishanjee lbw Doshi 1, B Mohanty lbw b Bhattacharjee 8, BR Rao lbw Bhattacharjee 15, S Satpathy c S Mukherjee b Doshi 0, S Mohanty lbw Bhattacharjee 21, G Shankar not out 0; Extras 5
Total (all out, 34.2 overs) 111
Fall of wickets: 1-1, 2-5, 3-12, 4-33, 5-78, 6-79, 7-83, 8-100, 9-111, 10-111
Bengal bowling: Guha 7-0-37-2, Chakrabarti 6-0-18-2, Chail 2-2-0-0, Doshi 11-2-36-2, Bhattacharjee 8.2-3-15-4.
