Odisha lost to Jharkhand by nine wickets on the penultimate day of their four-day C K Nayudu Trophy U-23 Plate Group-B match at BLS Cricket Stadium in Bokaro today. This was the second defeat in five matches for Odisha and they ended their campaign on disappointing note, finishing last in the six-team group with three points.

After conceding a 240-run lead in the first innings, Odisha put up much better performance in the second innings as they mustered a sizeable total of 303 in the second innings, after resuming at the overnight score of were 43 for no loss. Chasing a victory target of 64, host Jharkhand easily romped home, losing only one wicket.

In the second innings, Debabrata Pradhan was the top scorer for Odisha, hitting a whirlwind 54-ball 66 with the help of seven boundaries and two sixes. Besides Pradhan, Debasish Samantray, Amrit Khatua, Saurabh Rawat, Subham Nayak, Pappu Roy and captain Devendra Kunwar made notable contributions.

Earlier, in reply to a modest first-innings total of 186 by Odisha, Jharkhand were all out for 426. Captain Virat Singh slammed a century, while Kumar Suraj, Rahil Khan and Vinayak Vikram posted a half-century each for the home team. Off-spinner Subham Nayak was the most successful Odisha bowler, taking five wickets for 152 runs.

Opting to bat, Odisha failed to muster a big total as they slumped from 135 for three to 160 for nine. The top six batsmen got good starts but could not stay long for big knocks. Ronit Singh destroyed the Odisha innings, bagging seven wickets for 42 runs. The visitors managed to post a decent total thanks to a cameo 22-ball 28 by Ashutosh Das, who hit three fours and two sixes.

SCOREBOARD:

ODISHA (1st innings): Debasish Samantray Pal b Chakraborty 25, Amrit Khatua c P Singh b R Singh 30, Subrat Samal c Suraj b R Singh 29, Devendra Kunwar c V Kumar b R Singh 31, Saurabh Rawat c Suraj b R Singh 21, Satyajit Sabat c Shasheem b Vikram 9, Debabrata Pradhan c Chakraborty b R Singh 0, Pappu Roy c Pal b R Singh 2, Ashutosh Das b Ranjan 28, Subham Nayak c Chakraborty b R Singh 0, Preet Kanwar Singh Chohan (not out) 0; Extras (b-3, lb-8) 11
Total (All out; 55.5 overs) 186
Fall of wickets: 1-43 (D Samantray, 17.2 ov), 2-86 (Samal, 32.1), 3-87 (Khatua, 34.1), 4-135 (Rawat, 44.1), 5-152 (Kunwar, 48.2), 6-152 (Pradhan, 48.6), 7-152 (Sabat, 49.3), 8-160 (Roy, 52.1), 9-160 (Nayak, 52.5), 10-186 (A Das, 55.5).
Bowling: Vikas Kumar 6-2-16-0, Pratik Ranjan 13.5-2-47-1, Vinayak Vikram 13-4-46-1, Supriyo Chakraborty 4-0-10-1, Pratyush Singh 3-0-14-0, Ronit Singh 16-6-42-7.

JHARKHAND (1st innings): Supriyo Chakraborty lbw Pradhan 0, Shasheem c Khatua b Nayak 0, Virat Singh c Salman (sub) b Nayak 121, Pratyush Singh c Rawat b Chohan 49, Kumar Suraj c Pradhan b Samantray 53, Rahil Khan c&b Roy 51, Amit Pal c Pradhan b Nayak 20, Ronit Singh c Rawat b Roy 0, Pratik Ranjan c Samantray b Nayak 45, Vinayak Vikram (not out) 51, Vikash Kumar c Rajkishan Patel (sub) b Nayak 8 ; Extras (b-18, lb-10) 28
Total (All out; 100.5 overs) 426
Fall of wickets: 1-0 (Chakraborty, 0.4 ov), 2-4 (Shasheem, 1.4), 3-91 (P Singh, 22.2), 4-209 (K Suraj, 56.5), 5-287 (R Khan, 74.1), 6-287 (V Singh, 75.6), 7-290 (R Singh, 78.3), 8-318 (A Pal, 83.6), 9-375 (P Ranjan, 95.6), 10-426 (V Kumar, 100.5)
Bowling: Debabrata Pradhan 11-3-25-1, Subham Nayak 35.5-4-152-5, Ashutosh Das 10-3-28-0, Pappu Roy 28-5-145-2, Preet K Singh Chohan 11-3-29-1, Debasish Samantray 5-0-19-1.

ODISHA (2nd innings): D Samantray c Pal b Vikram 43, A Khatua lbw Vikram 38, S Samal b Vikram 2, D Kunwar lbw R Singh 23, S Rawat lbw Vikram 37, S Sabat c P Singh b Vikram 9, A Das st Pal b P Ranjan 0, D Pradhan c Pal b Shasheem 66, P Roy lbw Vikram 24, S Nayak (not out) 35, PKS Chohan ct & b Shasheem 17; Extras (b-4, lb-4, w-1) 9
Total (All out; 99.2 overs) 303
Fall of wickets: 1-72 (Khatua, 34.3 ov), 2-83 (Samantray, 40.5), 3-88 (Samal, 42.3), 4-129 (Kunwar, 54.5), 5-147 (Sabat, 60.3), 6-150 (A Das, 61.5), 7-166 (Rawat, 66.1), 8-231 (Pradhan, 76.5), 9-258 (Roy, 88.5), 10-303 (Chohan, 99.2 ov)
Bowling: V Vikram 26-4-89-6, P Ranjan 25-6-64-1, V Kumar 14-4-21-0, Ronit Singh 22-5-80-1, Virat Singh 4-1-14-0, Pratyush Singh 2-0-10-0, Shasheem 6.2-2-17-2.

JHARKHAND (2nd innings): Shasheem c Nayak b Roy 41, P Singh (not out) 25, S Chakraborty (not out) 1
Total (1 wicket; 7 overs) 67
Fall of wicket: 1-61 (Shasheem, 5.5 ov)
Bowling: D Pradhan 2-0-15-0, S Nayak 1-0-21-0, P Roy 2-0-12-1, A Das 1-0-13-0, S Rawat 1-0-6-0.