A breezy half-century by Govinda Poddar and a four-wicket haul by speedster Suryakant Pradhan powered Odisha to a 72-run win over Tripura in their third match of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy East Zone T-20 League at JSCA International Stadium Complex in Ranchi today. This was the second win for Odisha, who earlier lost to Bengal by seven wickets and then beat Assam by 51 runs.

Electing to bat, Odisha mustered a healthy total of 179 for six and then dismissed Tripura for 107. Rajesh Dhuper and captain Anurag Sarangi gave Odisha a delightful start putting on 53 runs for the opening wicket. Poddar and Subhranshu Senapati bolstered the innings, stitching together 67 runs for the third wicket.

Poddar hit a 28-ball 55 with the help of four boundaries and as many sixes. Dhuper was the second highest scorer with a 34-ball 42, while Senapati contributed 30 runs. Chasing a stiff target, Tripura found aggressive pacer Suryakant Pradhan too hot to handle and failed to recover after losing four wickets for 17 runs.

SCOREBOARD

ODISHA: Rajesh Dhuper (run out) Saha 42, Anurag Sarangi lbw Chakraborty 18, Subhransu Senapati b Majumder 30, Govinda Poddar c Majumder b Bose 55, Biplab Samantaray c G Singh b Majumder 15, Arabind Singh (not out) 4, Suryakant Pradhan b Mura Singh 13, Prayas Singh (not out) 1; Extras (lb-1) 1
Total (6 wickets; 20 overs) 179
Did not bat: Abhishek Raut, Debabrata Pradhan, Jayanta Behera
Fall of wickets: 1-53 (Sarangi, 6.5 ov), 2-71 (Dhuper, 9.6), 3-138 (Senapati, 16.1), 4-150 (Poddar, 17.3), 5-161 (Samantaray, 18.3), 6-177 (Pradhan, 19.4)
Bowling: M B Mura Singh 4-0-35-1, A Sarkar 3-0-37-0, V Saha 3-0-21-0, A Chakraborty 4-0-18-1, Gurinder Singh 2-0-29-0, S Majumder 3-0-24-2, U Bose 1-0-14-1,

TRIPURA: S Patel c Behera b S Pradhan 0, U Bose ct&b S Pradhan 11, Yashpal Singh c Dhuper b S Pradhan 0, K Acharjee c A Singh b D Pradhan 4, MB Mura Singh c Samantaray b Behera 23, R Dey c Senapati b P Singh 6, Gurinder Singh c S Pradhan b Raut 39, S Majumder (run out) Raut 8, V Saha b S Pradhan 6, A Chakraborty b Poddar 2, A Sarkar (not out) 0; Extras (nb-1, w-3, lb-4) 8
Total (All out; 17.2 overs) 107
Fall of wickets: 1-0 (Patel, 0.3 ov), 2-0 (Y Singh, 0.5), 3-11 (U Bose, 2.3), 4-17 (Acharjee, 3.6), 5-37 (Dey, 5.4), 6-54 (Mura Singh, 8.2), 7-83 (Majumder, 13.1), 8-97 (G Singh, 15.2), 9-103 (Chakraborty, 16.5), 10-107 (Saha, 17.2)
Bowling: Suryakant Pradhan 3.2-0-24-4, Debabrata Pradhan 2-0-6-1, Prayas Singh 2-0-20-1, Biplab Samantaray 1-0-4-0, Jayanta Behera 4-0-19-1, Abhishek Raut 4-0-27-1, Govinda Poddar 1-0-3-1.