Unbeaten 86 by Debasish Samantray and three-wicket haul by Jamala Bhanjan Mohapatra went in vain as Odisha lost to Chhattsigarh by six wickets in their Elite Group-C opening match of the BCCI U-23 Mens One-Day Tournament in Dehradun today.

riePut into bat, Odisha piled up a competitive total of 209 for nine, thanks to the 140-ball knock by Samantray. But Chhattisgarh overhauled the target in 47.4 overs, losing four wickets in the process. Mohapatra was most successful Odisha bowler, bagging his three wickets for 24 runs.

SCOREBOARD

ODISHA: Sandeep Pattanaik lbw Agrawal 0, Swastik Samal lbw Saxena 15, Debasish Samantray not out 86, Soubhagya Ranjan Mishra b Samuel 8, Kshyamasagar Bal c Saxena b Gagandeep 3, Somen Chand lbw Samuel 11, Rajkishan Patel lbw Pandey 25, Jamala B Mohapatra c Yadav b Tiwari 0, Tarani Sa b Pandey 13, Rahul Choudhary b Saxena 2, Preet K Singh Chohan not out 1; Extras (nb-4, w-29, b-6, lb-6) 45
Total (9 wickets; 50 overs) 209
Fall of wickets: 1-1 (Pattanaik, 0.6 ov), 2-44 (Samal, 8.6), 3-72 (Mishra, 17.6), 4-80 (Bal, 20.2), 5-103 (Chand, 27.4), 6-165 (Patel, 39.2), 7-166 (Mohapatra, 40.6), 8-202 (Sa, 47.6), 9-208 (Choudhary, 49.5 ov)
Bowling: S S Agrawal 9-0-45-1, A S Saxena 7-0-22-2, A G Rao 5-0-17-0, Gagandeep Singh 8-2-19-1, M Binny Samuel 7-0-37-2, U M Tiwari 7-1-30-1, Ashish Pandey 7-1-27-2.

CHATTISGARH: Sanidhya Hurkat lbw Mohapatra 36, Ashish Pandey c & b Mohapatra 51, P M Yadav c Bal b Mohapatra 8, Sanjeet Desai b Sa 39, A G Rao not out 35, M S S Hussain not out 7; Extras (nb-1, w-28, lb-5) 34
Total (4 wickets; 47.4 overs) 210
Did not bat: S S Agrawal, U M Tiwari, Gagandeep Singh, M Binny Samuel, A S Saxena
Fall of wickets: 1-110 (Hurkat, 23.5 ov), 2-124 (Yadav, 25.5), 3-138 (Pandey, 29.3), 4-191 (Desai, 44.2)
Bowling: Preet K Singh Chohan 8.4-1-44-0, Rahul Choudhary 8-0-41-0, Tarani Sa 8-1-39-1, Rajkishan Patel 10-1-36-0, Somen Chand 1-0-7-0, Jamala B Mohapatra 10-1-24-3, Debasish Samantray 2-0-14-0.