Superb batting in both the innings by Amrit Khatua helped Odisha draw their four-day C K Nayudu Trophy Under-23 Plate Group-B match against Uttar Pradesh at Veer Surendra Sai Stadium in Sambalpur today. After conceding a first-innings lead of 233 runs, host Odisha were 368 for five in the second innings on the final day when the match came to an end.

Earlier in the first innings, Uttar Pradesh made 460, in reply to a modest total of 227 by Odisha. Uttar Pradesh, however, took home three points by virtue of taking first-innings lead, while Odisha settled with one point. Son of former Odisha allrounder Abinash Khatua, Amrit was the top-scorer for Odisha in both the innings, hitting 59 in the first and an unbeaten 150 (385 balls, 23x4) in the second. He foiled the opposition bid for an outright win with three substantial partnerships in the second essay.

Khatua compiled 107 runs for the opening wicket with with Rajesh Duper and followed it with 121 for the third wicket with Debasis Samantray and 98 for the fifth wicket with captain Devendra Kunwar. Dhuper, Samantray and Kunwar scored a half-century each in the second innings. Odisha now have three points from as many matches and will next meet Hyderabad at Hyderabad from November 3 to 6.

In the only innings played by Uttar Pradesh, opening batsman Abhishek Goswami hit a sparkling 189 (26x4, 3x6), while Boby Yadav, Trishal Trivedi and Shanu Saini scored one half-century each. Pappu Roy was the most successful Odisha bowler, bagging five wickets for 105 runs, while Debabrata Pradhan took three for 91.

SCOREBOARD:

ODISHA (1st innings): Amrit Khatua c Hasan b Mohsin 59, Rajesh Dhuper c Hasan b Dhruv Singh 1, Debasish Samantray c Chaubey b Sandeep Kumar 9, Biswajit Bhuyan c Sandeep Kumar b Trivedi 9, Devendra S Kunwar c Sandeep Kumar b Mohsin 41, Sarbeswar Mohanty b Saini 47, Debabrata Pradhan c Mukesh Kumar (Sub) b Trivedi 8, Abhilas Semwal lbw Trivedi 19, Ashutosh Das c Yadav b Mohsin 15, Abhijit Ghana lbw Mohsin 0, Pappu Roy (not out) 5; Extras (b-5, lb-7, nb-1, w-1) 14
Total (All out; 82.4 overs) 227
Fall of wickets: 1-5 (Dhuper, 2.4 ov), 2-34 (Samantray, 14.2), 3-59 (Bhuyan, 29.3), 4-128 (Khatua, 52.2), 5-131 (Kunwar, 56.1), 6-142 (Pradhan, 61.4), 7-175 (Semwal, 65.3), 8-203 (A Das, 73.3), 9-203 (Ghana, 73.4), 10-227 (Mohanty, 82.4)
Bowling: Dhruv Pratap Singh 16-8-35-1, Mohsin Multan Khan 17-2-47-4, Boby Yadav 10-3-28-0, Sandeep Kumar 2-1-6-1, Shanu Saini 21.4-2-71-1, Trishal Vijay Trivedi 16-7-28-3

UTTAR PRADESH (1st innings): Abhishek Goswami c Dhuper b Roy 189, Madhav Kaushik b Pradhan 4, Shubham Chaubey lbw Das 35, Boby Yadav b Pradhan 51, Sandeep Kumar c Samantray b Roy 4, Parth Mishra c Bhuyan b Roy 1, Sahim Hasan c Dhuper b Pradhan 15, Shanu Saini (not out) 61, Trishal Trivedi c Bhuyan b Roy 63, Dhruv Pratap Singh c Mohanty b Roy 12, Mohsin Khan (absent hurt) 0; Extras (b-14, lb-9, w-2) 25
Total (All out; 121.1 overs) 460
Fall of wickets: 1-32 (Kaushik, 12.5 ov), 2-108 (Chaubey, 32.4), 3-268 (Yadav, 70.6), 4-289 (Sandeep Kumar, 75.4), 5-295 (Mishra, 77.1), 6-307 (Goswami, 81.5), 7-329 (Hasan, 88.2), 8-439 (Trivedi, 115.4), 9-460 (DP Singh, 121.1)
Bowling: Debabrata Pradhan 30-4-91-3, Ashutosh Das 15-3-49-1, Pappu Roy 27.1-1-105-5, Sarbeswar Mohanty 7-1-24-0, Abhilas Semwal 19-1-87-0, Abhijit Ghana 18-4-61-0, Debasish Samantray 5-0-20-0.

ODISHA (2nd innings): R Dhuper b Mishra 50, A Khatua (not out) 150, A Semwal c Sandeep b Mishra 4, D Samantray c Sandeep b Dhruv Singh 78, B Bhuyan c Hardeep (Sub) b Mishra 5, D Kunwar c Hardeep (Sub) b Mishra 50, S Mohanty (not out) 8; Extras (b-15, lb-5, w-2, nb-1) 23
Total (5 wkts; 138.1 overs) 368
Fall of wickets: 1-107 (Dhuper, 51.3 ov), 2-115 (Semwal, 53.6), 3-236 (Samantray, 97.2), 4-250 (Bhuyan, 101.4), 5-348 (Kunwar, 131.2)
Bowling: Dhruv Pratap Singh 23-7-61-1, Boby Yadav 32-14-47-0, Trishal Trivedi 26.1-7-78-1, Parth Mishra 27-4-81-3, Shanu Saini 23-6-67-0, Madhav Kaushik 2-1-6-0, Sandeep Kumar 2-0-8-0, Shubham Chaubey 3-3-0-0.