Losing run continued for Odisha in the Cooch Behar Trophy U-19 Cricket Tournament as they lost to Tripura by four wickets on the fourth and last day of their Elite Group-C match at Police Training Academy Ground in Agartala today. This was the fourth successive defeat for Odisha, who earlier lost to Tamil Nadu, Baroda and Jammu & Kashmir.
Put into bat by Tripura captain Amit Ali, Odisha folded up for 100 as only four batsmen could reach double digits. The home team conceded a first-innings lead of 60 runs as Tripura made 160. In the second innings, Odisha compiled a respectable total of 238, thanks to a half-century by Sameer Sahu and 46 by Aditya Rout.
Chasing a challenging target of 179 for victory, Tripura rode on an unbeaten knock of 87 by Sankar Paul to romp home, while losing six wickets in the process. Hapless Odisha will next meet Saurashtra at Veer Surendra Sai Stadium in Sambalpur from December 27 to 30.
SCOREBOARD
ODISHA (1st innings): Sanket Behera b Ali 19, Aditya Rout lbw Hossain 9, Aakash Ch Nayak c Biswas b Hossain 0, Anil Parida b S Paul 7, Manas Ranjan Nayak c Ali b S Sultan 21, Sameer Sahu c S Paul b S Sultan 7, Satyakam Bharadwaj lbw Ali 3, Suraj K Behera lbw Ali 15, Ankitkar Jaiswal b Ali 0, Spandan Sabat c S Paul b P Sultan 15, Surya Narayan Biswal not out 1; Extras (nb-1, lb-2) 3
Total (All out; 48.5 overs) 100
Fall of wickets: 1-9 (Rout, 2.2 ov), 2-9 (AC Nayak, 2.3), 3-37 (Behera, 12.6), 4-45 (Parida, 15.6), 5-60 (Sahu, 28.4), 6-65 (MR Nayak, 32.5), 7-75 (Bharadwaj, 39.5), 8-75 (Jaiswal, 39.6), 9-90 (Suraj Behera, 45.1), 10-100 (Sabat, 48.5)
Bowling: Saruk Hossain 10-2-17-2, Ashish Kumar Yadav 4-1-19-0, Sankar Paul 7-3-6-1, Amit Ali 10-1-39-4, Sahil Sultan 8-4-7-2, Parvez Sultan 9.5-7-10-1.
TRIPURA (1st innings): Abhijit Ghosh lbw Suraj Behera 1, Sankar Paul lbw Biswal 49, Sridam Paul st MR Nayak b Jaiswal 18, Anandh Bhowmik c Parida b Jaiswal 26, Rohit Ghosh run out (Suraj Behera) 10, Sahil Sultan lbw Bharadwaj 9, Amit Ali c Parida b Sabat 26, Parvez Sultan c Parida b Sabat 3, Bijoy Biswas not out 7, Ashish Kumar Yadav c Sabat b Bharadwaj 9, Saruk Hossain c Biswal b Bharadwaj 0; Extras (lb-2) 2
Total (All out; 69.3 overs) 160
Fall of wickets: 1-1 (A Ghosh, 1.3 ov), 2-29 (S Paul, 11.2), 3-87 (Bhowmik, 35.5), 4-95 (Sankar Paul, 40.4), 5-110 (R Ghosh, 48.5), 6-134 (Sultan, 57.6), 7-140 (Ali, 60.3), 8-143 (P Sultan, 62.1), 9-156 (Yadav, 67.5), 10-160 (Hossain, 69.3 ov)
Bowling: Surya Narayan Biswal 18-10-18-1, Suraj K Behera 9-1-41-1, Ankitkar Jaiswal 19-2-43-2, Spandan Sabat 13-4-33-2, Satyakam Bharadwaj 10.3-3-23-3.
ODISHA (2nd innings): Sanket Behera b Sultan 16, Aditya Rout c Biswas b Yadav 46, Aakash Ch Nayak c Biswas b Sankar Paul 10, Anil Parida c Bhowmik b Ali 36, Manas Ranjan Nayak b Ali 14, Sameer Sahu run out (Ghosh) 50, Satyakam Bharadwaj c Sankar Paul b Ali 29, Suraj K Behera lbw P Sultan 5, Spandan Sabat c Sankar Paul b Sultan 8, Ankitkar Jaiswal c & b Ali 2, Surya Narayan Biswal not out 0; Extras (nb-1, w-1, b-16, lb-4) 22
Total (All out; 86.5 overs) 238
Fall of wickets: 1-61 (Rout, 8.2 ov), 2-76 (A Nayak, 11.3), 3-76 (Sanket Behera, 12.6), 4-99 (MR Nayak, 29.1), 5-184 (Parida, 73.6), 6-198 (Sahu, 75.5), 7-220 (Suraj Behera, 80.2), 8-234 (Bharadwaj, 83.1), 9-238 (Jaiswal, 85.4), 10-238 (Sabat, 86.5)
Bowling: S Hossain 11-4-40-0, AK Yadav 14-5-32-1, P Sultan 18-7-38-1, A Ali 24-3-84-4, Sankar Paul 11-4-15-1, Sahil Sultan 7.5-5-3-2, Rohit Ghosh 1-0-6-0.
TRIPURA (2nd innings): A Ghosh b Suraj Behera 0, Sankar Paul not out 87, Sridam Paul lbw Biswal 12, A Bhowmik c MR Nayak b Bharadwaj 28, R Ghosh c Parida b Sabat 11, S Sultan c Bharadwaj b Sabat 0, A Ali c & b Biswal 28, P Sultan not out 10; Extras (nb-1, lb-3) 4
Total (6 wickets; 52.2 overs) 180
Fall of wickets: 1-0 (A Ghosh, 0.1 ov), 2-13 (Sridam Paul, 1.4), 3-77 (Bhowmik, 23.1), 4-88 (R Ghosh, 28.4), 5-90 (S Sultan, 30.6), 6-140 (Ali, 37.6 ov)
Bowling: Suraj K Behera 5-0-22-1, S Biswal 10-1-33-2, A Jaiswal 13-3-31-0, Spandan Sabat 13-1-50-2, Satyakam Bharadwaj 11-1-37-1, Sameer Sahu 0.2-0-4-0.