19-Feb-2000
Uttar Pradesh proved themselves too good for Orissa on home conditions when they registered a 10-wicket win in their four-day Ranji Trophy Group-C Super League match on the last day at Modi Stadium in Kanpur today. This was overall 68th loss in a total of 171 Ranji Trophy matches for Orissa and first loss in their only game against Uttar Pradesh.
Of course, four players put up notable performance for Orissa. But these were not enough to save them from defeat. Riding on an unbeaten 108 by Sanjay Raul (198 balls, 14x4), Orissa accumulated a respectable total of 241 after captain Shiv Sundar Das won the toss and decided to bat.
But a century each by captain Gyanendra Pandey and Rizwan Shamshad enabled Uttar Pradesh take a first-innings lead of 246 runs after being all out for 487. Offie Sanjay Satpathy was most successful Orissa bowler, bagging six wickets for 147 runs.
Orissa, however, escaped the ignominy of innings defeat by mustering 257 in their second innings. That became possible, thanks to a half-century each by Raul (82), Rashmi Ranjan Parida (69) and P Jayachandra (65 not out). Uttar Pradesh clinched victory by overhauling a mini target of 12 runs without losing any wicket.
SCORECARD (Orissa Match No 171):
ORISSA (1st innings): *Shiv Sundar Das lbw Srivastava 23, Prasanta Mohapatra lbw Pandey 5, Pravanjan Mullick b Tripathi 16, Sanjay Raul not out 108, Rashmi Ranjan Parida c Pandey b Zaidi 16, P Jayachandra c Saif b Pandey 36, Robin Morris c Tyagi b Raza 6, +Yashpal Mohanty c & b Pandey 12, Sanjay Satpathy b Raza 2, Ajay Barik lbw Pandey 0, Jagannath Das run out (Zaidi) 2; Extras (b-4, lb-10, nb-1) 15
Total (all out, 84 overs) 241
Fall of wickets: 1-30 (SS Das, 14.1 ov), 2-30 (Mohapatra, 15.1 ov), 3-64 (Mullick, 28.4 ov), 4-98 (Parida, 42.6 ov), 5-164 (Jayachandra, 62.2 ov), 6-184 (Morris, 69.6 ov), 7-200 (Mohanty, 72.6 ov), 8-209 (Satpathy, 77.5 ov), 9-210 (Barik, 78.5 ov), 10-241 (JP Das, 84 ov)
Uttar Pradesh bowling: Zaidi 13-4-39-1, Srivastava 20-5-48-1, Tripathi 17-4-42-1, Pandey 19-3-42-4, Raza 15-1-56-2.
UTTAR PRADESH (1st innings): +MS Mudgal st Mohanty b Satpathy 62, JP Yadav lbw Satpathy 32, AS Tyagi c Jayachandra b Satpathy 2, R Shamshad c Mohapatra b Jayachandra 115, *GK Pandey c Barik b Raul 163, SA Shukla st Mohanty b Satpathy 43, M Saif c JP Das b Raul 27, AW Zaidi c Mullick b Satpathy 12, MB Tripathi c Mullick b Satpathy 0, M Raza not out 15, SJ Srivastava run out 1; Extras (b-1, lb-5, nb-7, w-2) 15
Total (all out, 600 minutes, 145.2 overs) 487
Fall of wickets: 1-70 (Yadav, 25.2 ov), 2-86 (Tyagi, 33.1 ov), 3-103 (Mudgal, 37.4 ov), 4-332 (Shamshad, 102.3 ov), 5-407 (Shukla, 125.6 ov), 6-451 (Pandey, 134.3 ov), 7-459 (Saif, 136.2 ov), 8-461 (Tripathi, 137.4 ov), 9-484 (Zaidi, 143.6 ov), 10-487 (Srivastava, 145.2 ov)
Orissa bowling: Barik 20-5-69-0, Morris 22-2-78-0, Jayachandra 16-6-44-1, Satpathy 48.2-7-147-6, JP Das 8-1-60-0, Raul 26-4-76-2, Mullick 5-1-7-0.
ORISSA (2nd innings): *SS Das b Zaidi 11, PR Mohapatra lbw Srivastava 2, PM Mullick lbw Srivastava 0, SS Raul c Mudgal b Raza 82, RR Parida b Zaidi 69, P Jayachandra not out 65, RF Morris c sub b Raza 9, +YM Mohanty c Shamshad b Raza 0, SK Satpathy c Zaidi b Raza 0, JP Das lbw Pandey 0, A Barik b Raza 1; Extras (b-13, lb-3, nb-2) 18
Total (all out, 402 minutes, 90.2 overs) 257
Fall of wickets: 1-14 (Mohapatra, 5.2 ov), 2-14 (Mullick, 5.3 ov), 3-20 (SS Das, 8.4 ov), 4-152 (Parida, 50.4 ov), 5-211 (Raul, 74.2 ov), 6-227 (Morris, 80.4 ov), 7-227 (Mohanty, 80.6 ov), 8-229 (Satpathy, 82.5 ov), 9-240 (JP Das, 87.3 ov), 10-257 (Barik, 90.2 ov)
Uttar Pradesh bowling: Zaidi 21-5-55-2, Srivastava 15-4-49-2, Tripathi 17-3-46-0, Pandey 21-4-39-1, Raza 15.2-1-49-5, Shamshad 1-0-3-0.
UTTAR PRADESH (2nd innings): +MS Mudgal not out 2, M Saif not out 12; Extras 0
Total (no wicket, 8 minutes, 1.4 overs) 14
Orissa bowling: Barik 1-0-5-0, Morris 0.4-0-9-0.
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PHOTO: Undated file photo of Orissa allrounder Sanjay Raul.
