Host Odisha secured three points by virtue of taking a slender first-innings lead against Bengal in their three-day Vijay Merchant Trophy U-16 East Zone league match, which ended in a draw on the final day here at Bhubanananda Orissa School of Engineering (BOSE) ground today.

In reply to a first-innings total 263 by Bengal, Odisha took one-run lead by making 264. Sparkling knock of 94 by Binayak Mohanty and his 124-run partnership for the fifth-wicket with Sambit Baral enabled the home team take the lead. Bengal were 153 for six in the second innings when the match came to an end.

Mohanty faced 162 balls and hit 15 boundaries and two sixes. Baral made 42 with the help of six boundaries. Toufikuddin Amed was the top scorer for Bengal, making 95 in the first innings. Sushil Barik was the most successful bowler for Odisha, taking three wickets in each innings. Odisha will next meet Tripura at Nimpur Ground, Cuttack from December 19 to 21.

SCOREBOARD

BENGAL (1st innings): Toufikuddin Amed c Mohapatra b Behera 95, Sahitya Hazra b Barik 27, Sahil Kamran c Baral b Barik 11, Abishek Porel c Patra b Behera 7, Anuj Kumar Singh (run out) Barik 1, Iman Chaudhuri b Shree 16, Sayan Paul lbw Baral 29, Aritra Ghosh ct & b Barik 21, Trishul Das (not out) 34, Diganta Das (run out) Naik 9, Javvad Turki (run out) Behera 5; Extras (nb-4, lb4) 8
Total (All out; 94.5 overs) 263
Fall of wickets: 1-79 (Hazra, 17.4 ov), 2-108 (Sahil, 28.6), 3-138 (Toufikuddin, 33.5), 4-146 (Anuj Singh, 40.6), 5-147 (Porel, 41.2), 6-181 (Chaudhuri, 55.5), 7-214 (Sayan, 70.4), 8-215 (Aritra, 74.4), 9-241 (Diganta, 83.3), 10-263 (Javvad, 94.5 ov)
Bowling: Subham Shree 9-0-40-1, Suraj Behera 18-3-55-2, Sambit Baral 19-8-57-1, Sushil Barik 24.5-3-59-3, Bikash Naik 21-6-42-0, Surya Mohapatra 3-0-6-0.

ODISHA (1st Innings): Biswajit Patra c Toufikuddin b D Das 5, Anwesh Tripathy c Toufikuddin b T Das 24, Prince Sanket Behera (run out) Sahil 23, Binayak Mohanty b Hazra 94, Surya Mohapatra b Sayan 13, Sambit Baral c Amanjyot (Sub) b Hazra 42, Pratyush Pradhan lbw D Das 6, Sushil Barik lbw Hazra 0, Bikash Naik c Hazra b Das 14, Suraj Behera (not out) 11, Subham Shree c Toufikuddin b D Das 0; Extras (nb-2, w-15, b-8, lb-7) 32
Total (All out; 97.3 overs) 264
Fall of wickets: 1-11 (Patra, 3.5 ov), 2-57 (Tripathy, 18.5), 3-65 (Sanket, 27.6), 4-101 (Mohapatra, 39.1), 5-225 (Mohanty, 74.1), 6-229 (Baral, 76.3), 7-233 (Barik, 78.6), 8-239 (Pradhan 85.1), 9-264 (B Naik, 97.2), 10-264 (Shree, 97.3)
Bowling: Diganta Das 16.3-4-50-4, Javvad 9-2-20-0, Trishul Das 18-6-42-1, Toufikuddin 21-6-47-0, Sahitya Hazra 21-9-43-3, Sayan Paul 10-3-31-1, Aritra Ghosh 2-0-16-0.

BENGAL (2nd innings): T Amed lbw Naik 30, S Hazra (run out) Barik 58, A Ghosh c Barik b Mohapatra 17, AK Singh c Pradhan b Barik 26, S Paul c Pradhan b Barik 3, S Kamran (not out) 13, I Chaudhuri c & b Barik 4, T Das (not out) 0; Extras (w-1, b-1) 2
Total (6 wickets; 61 overs) 153
Fall of wickets: 1-87 (Toufikuddin, 21.1 ov), 2-96 (Hazra, 23.3), 3-132 (AK Singh, 41.1), 4-132 (A Ghosh, 42.1), 5-137 (Sayan, 47.5), 6-145 (I Chaudhuri, 53.3)
Bowling: Suraj K Behera 5-0-20-0, Subham Shree 2-0-12-0, Sambit Baral 18-4-44-0, Sushil Barik 16-8-21-3, Bikash Naik 14-3-50-1, Surya Mohapatra 5-4-1-1, Biswajit Patra 1-0-4-0.
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PHOTO: Odisha U-16 batsman Binayak Mohanty who missed out on a century by six runs.