CUTTACK 10-Dec-1976
Century each by Gopal Bose and Palash Nandy helped Bengal trounce Orissa by an innings and 195 runs on the second day of their three-day Ranji Trophy East Zone match at Eden Gardens in Calcutta today. This was Bengal’s 23rd win and 17th by innings margin in 24 Ranji Trophy matches against Orissa.
Put into bat by Orissa captain NN Swamy, Bengal rode on a 226-run partnership between Gopal Bose and Palash Nandy to declare their first innings at 362 for three. In reply, Orissa were dismissed for 93 to concede a first-innings lead of 269 runs.
Forced to follow on, Orissa folded up for 74 in the second essay. Vinod Gupta was only Orissa player to show some resistance, picking up two wickets and top-socring in the first innings with 27 runs. Orissa bowler P Sarkar made his first-class debut in this match.
SCORECARD (Orissa Match No 67):
BENGAL (1st innings): Gopal K Bose run out 120, Palash Nandy c Panda b Gupta 117, *PC Poddar lbw Gupta 24, S Mukherjee not out 34, AK Roy not out 43, A Bhattacharjee DNB, DR Doshi DNB, +K Chowdhury DNB, D Dutta DNB, R Mukherjee DNB, S Guha DNB; Extras (14-b, 10-lb) 24
Total (3 wickets, declared, 86 overs) 362
Fall of wickets: 1-226, 2-268, 3-281
Orissa bowling: Shankar 7-1-31-0, Rao 13-1-35-0, S Mohanty 2-0-16-0, Sarkar 9-0-41-0, B Mohanty 6-0-30-0, Gupta 28-3-119-2, Swamy 21-3-66-0.
ORISSA (1st innings): Ranjit Sikdar c R Mukherjee b Dutta 12, +Daniel Rout b Guha 2, Babu R Rao b Dutta 15, Vinod Gupta c R Mukherjee b Doshi 27, Rabi Narayan Panda c Bose b Bhattacharjee 11, Bikram Mohanty run out 9, B Bishanjee b Bhattacharjee 0, Sujit Mohanty st Chowdhury b Bhattacharjee 4, *NN Swamy not out 6, G Shankar c R Mukherjee b Bhattacharjee 0, P Sarkar b Bhattacharjee 0; Extras 7
Total (all out, 34.4 overs) 93
Fall of wickets: 1-9, 2-23, 3-42, 4-72, 5-74, 6-75, 7-85, 8-88, 9-93, 10-93
Bengal bowling: Guha 8-2-18-1, Dutta 9-2-36-2, Doshi 9-4-12-1, Bhattacharjee 8.4-2-20-5.
ORISSA (2nd innings, following on): +D Rout run out 8, *NN Swamy b Guha 5, BR Rao hit wkt b Guha 2, V Gupta c Chowdhury b Guha 10, S Mohanty st Chowdhury b Doshi 1, RN Panda c Chowdhury b Guha 0, B Mohanty c Nandy b Doshi 0, B Bishanjee b Bhattacharjee 16, R Sikdar lbw Doshi 5, G Shankar not out 3, P Sarkar c R Mukherjee b Doshi 13; Extras 11
Total (all out, 35.4 overs) 74
Fall of wickets: 1-11, 2-14, 3-29, 4-30, 5-30, 6-31, 7-31, 8-58, 9-58, 10-74
Bengal bowling: Guha 13-6-24-4, Dutta 5-3-5-0, Doshi 10.4-6-22-4, Bhattacharjee 5-2-10-1, Bose 2-1-2-0.
