Ranji Trophy: Das, Raul destroy Tripura

Orissa rode on a century each by captain Shiv Sudar Das and Sanjay Raul to power Orissa to an innings and 156-run win over Tripura on the penultimate day of their four-day Ranji Trophy East Zone match at Maharaja Bir Bikram College Stadium in Agartala today.

This was overall 35th win and 18th by innings margin in a total of 176 Ranji Trophy matches for Orissa and their 14th victory, 11 by innings margin in 16 matches against Tripura. The thumping win fetched Orissa eight points, while Tripura drew blank.

Put into bat, host Tripura were bundled out for a paltry total of 114 with Sanjay Satpathy and Jagannath Das capturing four and three wickers respectively for Orissa. In reply, Orissa declared at 378 for four to take a first-innings lead of 264 runs.

Das slammed 178 (260 balls, 25x4, 3x6) and in the process passed 3000 runs in Ranji Trophy matches. Raul hit a 212-ball 134, which included 11 boundaries and two sixes. Tripura suffered the innings defeat as they folded up 108 in the second innings. For Orissa, Jagannath Das was most successful bowler with four wickets to his name, while Debasis Mohanty and Raul scalped three and two wickets respectively.

SCORECARD (Orissa Match No 176):

TRIPURA (1st innings):
*S Dasgupta c PK Das b Satpathy 22, RP Chaudhuri lbw Barik 18, RN Ghosh c Gopal b Mohanty 24, CY Sachdev c Gopal b JP Das 15, M Gupta c & b JP Das 5, RD Banik c SS Das b JP Das 0, RK Dutta c PK Das b Satpathy 0, TS Saha b Raul 7, +YS Kanshana c Gopal b Satpathy 8, SA Roy c Jayachandra b Satpathy 8, JS Debnath not out 0; Extras (b-1, lb-2, nb-4) 7
Total (all out, 270 minutes, 68.1 overs) 114
Fall of wickets:
1-28 (Chaudhuri, 16.3 ov), 2-60 (Ghosh, 36.4 ov), 3-85 (Dasgupta, 52.5 ov), 4-86 (Sachdev, 53.2 ov), 5-86 (Banik, 53.4 ov), 6-91 (Dutta, 56.6 ov), 7-91 (Gupta, 57.4 ov), 8-106 (Kanshana, 64.3 ov), 9-106 (Saha, 65.5 ov), 10-114 (Roy, 68.1 ov)
Orissa bowling: Mohanty 13-4-27-1, Barik 10-4-13-1, Satpathy 17.1-5-25-4, JP Das 20-7-36-3, Raul 6-2-5-1, Jayachandra 2-0-5-0.

ORISSA (1st innings): *Shiv Sundar Das c Debnath b Saha 178, Prado Das    lbw Roy 8, Pravanjan Mullick c Gupta b Saha 24, Sanjay Raul run out (Kanshana) 134, Rashmi Ranjan Parida not out 26, P Jayachandra not out 1; +Gautam Gopal DNB, Sanjay Satpathy DNB, Ajay Barik DNB, Debasis Mohanty DNB, Jagannath Das DNB; Extras (lb-2, nb-3, w-2) 7
Total (4 wickets, declared, 383 minutes, 95 overs) 378
Fall of wickets:
1-16 (PK Das, 3.1 ov), 2-71 (Mullick, 16.5 ov), 3-304 (SS Das, 77.5 ov), 4-374 (Raul, 91.6 ov)
Tripura bowling: Sachdev 5-0-25-0, Roy 26-5-53-1, Saha 28-2-110-2, Debnath 19-0-100-0, Banik 9-0-51-0, Ghosh 8-2-37-0.

TRIPURA (2nd innings): *S Dasgupta b JP Das 10, RP Chaudhuri c Raul b Mohanty 4, RN Ghosh c Raul b Mohanty 16, CY Sachdev c Barik b Raul 56, M Gupta c Gopal b Mohanty 0, RD Banik c Barik b JP Das 0, RK Dutta c Parida b JP Das 8, +YS Kanshana lbw Raul 7, TS Saha c sub (Bipin Singh) b JP Das 3, SA Roy run out (SS Das) 1, JS Debnath not out 0; Extras (lb-2, nb-1) 3
Total (all out, 203 minutes, 45.4 overs) 108
Fall of wickets:
1-10 (Chaudhuri, 4.1 ov), 2-30 (Dasgupta, 17.1 ov), 3-32 (Ghosh, 20.5 ov), 4-36 (Gupta, 22.4 ov), 5-37 (Banik, 23.5 ov), 6-51 (Dutta, 27.3 ov), 7-88 (Kanshana, 36.3 ov), 8-105 (Sachdev, 44.1 ov), 9-108 (Roy, 45.2 ov), 10-108 (Saha, 45.4 ov)
Orissa bowling: Mohanty 17-4-28-3, Barik 4-1-12-0, JP Das 13.4-5-28-4, Satpathy 5-1-33-0, Raul 6-2-5-2.
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PHOTO: Undated file photo of Orissa captain Shiv Sundar Das.

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