Valiant century by Ayush Naik went in vain as hosts Odisha lost to Kerala by an innings and 138 runs on the fourth and last day of their Cooch Behar Trophy U-19 Elite Group-C match at Veer Surendra Sai Stadium in Sambalpur today.
Choosing to bat after winning the toss, Kerala rode on an unbeaten triple century by captain Vathsal Govind Sharma and a double century by Ashwin Anand to declare their first innings at 651 for five. Biswajit Mallick was most successful Odisha bowler, taking three wickets for 185 runs.
In reply, Odisha made 330 thanks to a stroke-filled knock of 116 (224 balls, 20x4) by Ayush Naik. Forced to follow on after conceding a first-innings lead of 321 runs, Odisha folded up for 183 in the second innings. The innings victory fetched Kerala seven points, while Odisha drew blank.
SCOREBOARD
KERALA (1st innings): Amal CA lbw Mallick 36, Aadidev TJ lbw Majhi 0, Ananthakrishnan J lbw Majhi 3, Vathsal Govind Sharma (not out) 302, Ashwin Anand lbw Mallick 203, Akshay Manohar st Nayak b Mallick 65, Nikhil T (not out) 21; Extras (nb-5, w-8, b-4, lb-4) 21
Total (5 wickets declared; 159 overs) 651
Fall of wickets: 1-1 (Aadidev, 0.5 ov), 2-13 (Ananthakrishnan, 6.3), 3-74 (Amal, 24.1), 4-421 (Anand, 111.2), 5-590 (Manohar, 149.4)
Bowling: Shekhar Majhi 34-8-120-2, Nihar Ranjan Bhuyan 37-5-106-0, Raghunath Malla 22-6-56-0, Biswajit Mallick 33-1-185-3, Nitish Samantaray 28-2-144-0, Swastik Samal 2-0-19-0, Subham Satrujit 3-0-13-0.
ODISHA (1st innings): Swastik Samal lbw Kiran 32, Mitrabhanu Panda c Manohar b Kiran 38, Raghunath Malla b Rahul 39, Anil Parida b Rahul 0, Ayush Naik c Ananthakrishnan b Rahul 116, Subham Satrujit lbw Kiran 18, Manas Ranjan Nayak b Manohar 12, Shekhar Majhi lbw Ananthakrishnan 17, Nihar Ranjan Bhuyan b Afriedh 28, Nitish N Samantaray (run out) Vathsal 0, Biswajit Mallick (not out) 10; Extras (w-5, b-9, lb-6) 20
Total (All out; 125 overs) 330
Fall of wickets: 1-39 (Samal, 17.4 ov), 2-92 (Malla, 42.2), 3-92 (Parida, 42.5), 4-153 (Panda, 68.5), 5-180 (Satrujit, 75.3), 6-210 (Nayak, 85.5), 7-235 (Majhi, 94.1), 8-297 (Bhuyan, 115.3), 9-297 (Samantaray, 116.5), 10-330 (Naik, 124.6)
Bowling: Nakson Rahul 23-5-51-3, Abhijith K 18-5-43-0, Kiran Sagar M 37-16-71-3, Muhammed Afriedh KT 22-4-71-1, Akshay Manohar 13-1-48-1, Vathsal Govind Sharma 5-0-21-0, Ananthakrishnan J 7-4-10-1.
ODISHA (2nd innings): Swastik Samal lbw Kiran 46, Mitrabhanu Panda c Anand b Manohar 14, Raghunath Malla c&b Kiran 47, Anil Parida lbw Kiran 2, Ayush Naik c Anand b Kiran 25, Subham Satrujit lbw Kiran 8, Manas Ranjan Nayak lbw Manohar 8, Shekhar Majhi c Manohar b Rahul 10, Nihar Ranjan Bhuyan (not out) 8, Nitish N Samantaray c Nikhil b Manohar 4, Biswajit Mallick b Manohar 2; Extras (nb-1, b-8) 9
Total (All out; 76 overs) 183
Fall of wickets: 1-34 (Panda, 9.2 ov), 2-84 (Samal, 28.4), 3-90 (Parida, 30.5), 4-110 (Malla, 40.4), 5-125 (Satrujit, 47.5), 6-156 (Naik, 53.1), 7-166 (Majhi, 57.5), 8-171 (Nayak, 65.5), 9-177 (Samantaray, 69.6), 10-183 (Mallick, 75.6)
Bowling: Kiran Sagar M 33-13-71-5, Nakson Rahul 4-1-21-1, Akshay Manohar 34-15-71-4, Vathsal Govind Sharma 3-0-8-0, Ananthakrishnan J 1-1-0-0, Ashwin Anand 1-0-4-0.