Odisha registered fourth successive win in the Col C K Nayudu Trophy U-23 Tournament, decimating Sikkim by an innings and 98 runs on the third day of their four-day Plate-Group match at Veer Surendra Sai Stadium in Sambalpur today.
Put into bat, Sikkim made a respectable total of 208, thanks to a half-century by Md Shahbaz. Preet Kanwar Singh Chohan was most successful Odisha bowler, scalping four wickets for 59 runs.
In reply, Odisha rode on an unbeaten double hundred by stumper Sourav Kumar Gouda (225, 312b, 23x4, 3x6) and a hundred by Amrit Khatua (122, 338b, 18x4) to declare at 555 for three. With Binit Kumar Mohanty, captain Saswat Samal and Subham Satrujit contributing half-century each, Odisha took a huge first-innings lead of 347 runs.
In their second innings, Sikkim were bowled out for 249, notwithstanding a defiant century by Parth P (115) and an unbeaten 87 by Md Sahahbaz. Pacer Chohan catapulted Odisha to victory, bagging seven wickets in the second innings and a match haul of 11 wickets for 147 runs.
SCOREBOARD
SIKKIM (1st innings): Akash Luitel b Chohan 0, Avinash Rajak c Satrujit b Biswal 32, Sanjay Chettri b Chohan 17, Md Saptula b Chohan 23, Harit run out Choudhary (Sub) 25, Md Shahbaz b Biswal 52, Parth P run out Satrujit 26, Saurav Kumar Prasad c Biswal b Sahu 0, Dinesh Kumar Dhobi b Patel 8, Sandeep c Gouda b Chohan 19, Kinara not out 0; Extras (nb-1, w-2, lb-3) 6
Total (All out; 58.5 overs) 208
Fall of wickets: 1-0 (Luitel, 2.2), 2-36 (Chettri, 17.5), 3-72 (Rajak, 30.6), 4-82 (Saptula, 33.1), 143 (Harit, 42.5), 6-163 (Shahbaz, 49.3), 7-172 (Prasad, 52.1), 8-187 (Dhobi, 55.6), 9-208 (Sandeep, 58.4), 10-208 (Parth, 58.5)
Bowling: Preet K Singh Chohan 17.5-5-59-4, Ayaskant Sahu 14-4-30-1, Rajkishan Patel 8-2-33-1, Tarani Sa 9-1-41-0, Kartik Biswal 10-2-42-2.
ODISHA (1st innings): Binit Mohanty c Shahbaz b Sandeep 63, Amrit Khatua c Rajak b Dhobi 122, Sourav Gouda not out 225, Swastik Samal lbw Harit 69, Subham Satrujit not out 63; Extras (nb-1, w-4, b-3, lb-5) 13
Total (3 wickets declared; 146 overs) 555
Did not bat: Tarani Sa, Preet K Singh Chohan, Ayaskant Sahu, Somen Chand, Kartik Biswal, Rajkishan Patel
Fall of wickets: 1-102 (Mohanty, 34.4 ov), 2-346 (Khatua, 112.5), 3-470 (Samal, 136.4)
Bowling: Sandeep 39-6-133-1, Dinesh Kumar Dhobi 28-4-91-1, Kinara 9-1-32-0, Md Saptula 21-6-75-0, Harit 23-2-85-1, Parth P 14-2-59-0, Akash Luitel 3-0-15-0, Sanjay Chettri 5-0-30-0, Saurav Kumar Prasad 4-0-27-0.
SIKKIM (2nd innings): A Luitel c Bal (Sub) b Chohan 16, Avinash Rajak b Chohan 0, Sanjay Chettri c Gouda b Chohan 2, Parth P c Biswal b Chohan 115, Harit c Sa b Biswal 3, Md Shahbaz run out Satrujit 87, SK Prasad b Chohan 5, Md Saptula c Chand b Chohan 8, DK Dhobi not out 1, Sandeep c Bal (Sub) b Chohan 4, Kinara st Bal (Sub) b Khatua 2; Extras (w-1, lb-5) 6
Total (All out; 61 overs) 249
Fall of wickets: 1-0 (Rajak, 3.5 ov), 2-6 (Chettri, 7.6), 3-36 (Luitel, 15.2), 4-39 (Harit, 16.1), 5-218 (Shahbaz, 47.3), 6-225 (Prasad, 49.6), 7-241 (Saptula, 55.4), 8-242 (Parth, 57.6), 9-246 (Sandeep, 59.3), 10-249 (Kinara, 60.6)
Bowling: A Sahu 14-4-38-0, PKS Chohan 21-5-88-7, Kartik Biswal 8-3-28-1, R Patel 6-0-34-0, T Sa 10-1-49-0, Swastik Samal 1-0-6-0, Amrit Khatua 1-0-1-1.