07-Mar-1999
Tamil Nadu trounced Orissa by an innings and 41 runs on the last day of their four-day Ranji Trophy Super League Group-B match at MA Chidambaram Stadiu9m in Chennai today. This was overall 67th loss and 34th by innings margin in a total of 165 Ranji Trophy matches for Orissa and their first defeat in the only match against Tamil Nadu.
Orissa got off to a vulnerable start as they were bowled out for 194 after captain Sanjay Raul won the toss and elected to bat. The bright aspects of the Orissa first-innings were a half-century each by P Jayachandra (58, 91b, 8x4) and Gautam Gopal (71, 94b, 11x4, 2x6). T Kumaran did maximum damage to the Orissa innings, bagging six wickets.
In reply, host Tamil Nadu rode on a century each by Hemang Badani (122) and S Reuben Paul (100) to declare at 483 for seven. Debasis Mohanty was most successful Orissa bowler, taking three wickets for 91 runs.
After conceding a first-innings lead of 289 runs, Orissa put up slightly better performance in the second essay with Pravanjan Mullick (83, 134b, 15x4, 1x6) and skipper Raul (62, 146b, 10x4) scoring a half-century each. But the two knocks proved too little for the visitors, who lost the match by getting all out for 248.
SCORECARD (Orissa Match No 165):
ORISSA (1st innings): Shiv Sundar Das c Badani b Kumaran 1, P Jayachandra c Sharath b Singh 58, Pravanjan Mullick c Reuben Paul b Kumaran 0, *Sanjay Raul b Kumaran 5, Rashmi Ranjan Parida c Vasu b Singh 7, Pradip Das c Reuben Paul b Kumaran 15, +Gautam Gopal c Devanand b Kumaran 71, Sanjay Satpathy lbw Kumaran 0, Shahid Khan c George b Mahesh 5, Debasis Mohanty c Reuben Paul b Mahesh 11, Ajay Barik not out 3; Extras (b-5, lb-7, nb-6) 18
Total (all out, 57.1 overs) 194
Fall of wickets: 1-1 (SS Das, 1.2 ov), 2-3 (Mullick, 5.5 ov), 3-27 (Raul, 11.6 ov), 4-55 (Parida, 22.1 ov), 5-93 (Jayachandra, 30.4 ov), 6-106 (PK Das, 33.6 ov), 7-106 (Satpathy, 35.2 ov), 8-136 (Khan, 44.6 ov), 9-170 (Mohanty, 52.6 ov), 10-194 (Gopal, 57.1 ov)
Tamil Nadu bowling: Devanand 11-3-44-0, Kumaran 18.1-4-56-6, Mahesh 16-4-45-2, Singh 11-3-37-2, Vasu 1-1-0-0.
TAMIL NADU (1st innings): AJ George c Raul b Khan 62, WV Raman c Gopal b Mohanty 0, HK Badani c PK Das b Satpathy 122, D Vasu c Parida b Mohanty 20, S Sharath lbw Barik 2, J Madanagopal run out (Barik) 51, +S Reuben Paul not out 100, *RR Singh lbw Mohanty 12, S Mahesh not out 70, T Kumaran DNB, DK Devanand DNB; Extras (b-14, lb-7, nb-17, w-6) 44
Total (7 wickets, declared, 129 overs) 483
Fall of wickets: 1-7 (Raman, 4.5 ov), 2-121 (George, 38.6 ov), 3-178 (Vasu, 64.3 ov), 4-188 (Sharath, 73.2 ov), 5-285 (Badani, 96.6 ov), 6-309 (Madanagopal, 104.2 ov), 7-341 (Singh, 112.1 ov)
Orissa bowling: Mohanty 33-11-91-3, Barik 31-7-123-1, Jayachandra 3-0-18-0, Mullick 13-3-43-0, Satpathy 26-3-92-1, Khan 18-3-71-1, Raul 2-0-9-0, PK Das 3-0-15-0.
ORISSA (2nd innings): SS Das c Reuben Paul b Kumaran 23, P Jayachandra c Badani b Kumaran 0, PM Mullick c Madanagopal b Kumaran 83, RR Parida c George b Vasu 16, PK Das c George b Vasu 35, *SS Raul c George b Vasu 62, +G Gopal c Badani b Devanand 11, SK Satpathy c Badani b Devanand 0, SA Khan c Vasu b Devanand 0, DS Mohanty b Devanand 2, A Barik not out 0; Extras (b-3, lb-10, nb-3) 16
Total (all out, 110.3 overs) 248
Fall of wickets: 1-3 (Jayachandra, 5.6 ov), 2-53 (SS Das, 26.2 ov), 3-115 (Parida, 46.1 ov), 4-147 (Mullick, 61.1 ov), 5-223 (PK Das, 96.3 ov), 6-238 (Gopal, 103.2 ov), 7-238 (Satpathy, 103.3 ov), 8-238 (Khan, 103.4 ov), 9-244 (Mohanty, 109.1 ov), 10-248 (Raul, 110.3 ov)
Tamil Nadu bowling: Devanand 25-7-38-4, Kumaran 26-8-62-3, Mahesh 18-5-56-0, Singh 17-8-27-0, Vasu 24.3-11-52-3.
