CUTTACK 24-Nov-1991
Riding on a century by Subhash Chatterjee, Bihar crushed Orissa by an innings and 142 runs on the last day of their four-day Ranji Trophy East Zone match at Veer Surendra Sai Stadium in Sambalpur today. This was overall 58th defeat and 30th by innings margin in 120 Ranji Trophy match for Odisha. Against Bihar, this was Orissa’s 23rd defeat and ninth by an innings in 37 matches in Ranji Trophy.
Chatterjee slammed 142 to enable Bihar make a healthy total of 384 after captain Hari Gidwani won the toss to chose to bat. Among wicket-taking Orissa bolwers, Ranjib Biswal bagged a career-best five for 91, while Sushil Kumar Prasad scalped four for 117.
In reply, Orissa were skittled out for paltry 64 and conceded a massive lead of 320 runs. Forced to follow on, Orissa folded up for 178 in the second innings. Among Orissa batsman, Prasanta Mohapatra tasted success in the second innings, scoring a half-century. Orissa wicket-keeper Amaresh Mohanty and left-arm spinner Satya Ranjan Satpathy made first-class debut.
SCORECARD (Orissa Match No 120):
BIHAR (1st innings): S Das c Rajesh Singh b Biswal 3, P Khanna c Rajesh Singh b Kumar Prasad 21, *H Gidwani b Kumar Prasad 8, +SS Karim b Kumar Prasad 14, Subhash Chatterjee c Ray b Kumar Prasad 142, Sanjeev Kumar lbw Biswal 8, Avinash Kumar c Kumar Prasad b Biswal 0, V Venkatram run out 20, KVP Rao lbw Biswal 72, A Hussain b Biswal 11, Dhananjay Singh not out 39; Extras (b-20, lb-8, nb-15, w-3) 46
Total (all out, 189.2 overs) 384
Fall of wickets: 1-28, 2-28, 3-51, 4-58, 5-81, 6-102, 7-104, 8-154, 9-294, 10-384
Orissa bowling: S Mohapatra 13-3-43-0, Rajesh Singh 7-3-17-0, Kumar Prasad 77-26-117-4, Biswal 45.2-9-91-5, Satpathy 31-5-68-0, Jaiprakasham 8-2-8-0, Bhatt 2-1-2-0, Ray 6-0-10-0.
ORISSA (1st innings): Prasanta Mohapatra b Venkatram 0, Manojit Bhatt c Karim b Avinash Kumar 3, Debdutta Lenka c Gidwani b Venkatram 3, +Amaresh Mohanty lbw Avinash Kumar 13, Ranjib Biswal b Venkatram 5, *Amiya Ray st Karim b Avinash Kumar 5, Asjit Jaiprakasham lbw Avinash Kumar 1, Rajesh Singh not out 17, Sushil Kumar Prasad b Avinash Kumar 0, Sourajit Mohapatra c Karim b Venkatram 11, Satya Ranjjan Satpathy lbw Venkatram 3; Extras (b-1, lb-2) 3
Total (all out, 44.5 overs) 64
Fall of wickets: 1-4, 2-4, 3-19, 4-21, 5-27, 6-28, 7-35, 8-35, 9-56, 10-64
Bihar bowling: Dhananjay Singh 6-3-10-0, Avinash Kumar 22-13-19-5, Venkatram 16.5-5-32-5.
ORISSA (2nd innings, Following on): PR Mohapatra c Gidwani b Venkatram 60, MP Bhatt c Khanna b Rao 2, *A Ray lbw Venkatram 22, D Lenka c Khanna b Rao 27, R Biswal b Rao 18, A Jaiprakasham b Rao 7, Rajesh Singh c Karim b Avinash Kumar 2, +A Mohanty lbw Avinash Kumar 8, S Kumar Prasad c Karim b Rao 0, S Mohapatra not out 20, SR Satpathy c Karim b Venkatram 2; Extras (b-3, lb-5, nb-2) 10
Total (all out, 119.4 overs) 178
Fall of wickets: 1-14, 2-50, 3-104, 4-136, 5-143, 6-146, 7-148, 8-149, 9-175, 10-178
Bihar bowling: Avinash Kumar 46-17-79-2, Venkatram 36.4-13-39-3, Rao 32-17-40-5, Gidwani 1-0-3-0, Hussain 2-0-5-0, Das 2-0-4-0.
