Orissa suffered a 52-run defeat despite taking first innings lead in their four-day Ranji Trophy Group-A Super League match against star-studded Delhi at the Firoz Shah Kotla Stadium in Delhi today.
Played on green-top pitch, the match ended in two days. Needing 149 runs victory, Orissa were bundled out for 96 in the second innings. Earlier, resuming at the overnight score of 38 for four, Delhi rode on precious unbeaten knock of 66 (75, 4x4, 6x4) by S Narwal to compile a second innings total of 152.
Orissa, in fact, let Delhi off the hook after reducing to home side to 49 for seven. Narwal rescued the home side by registering three useful partnerships with the tailenders. The 47 runs he put on for the last wicket stand with P Awana came a big setback for the Orissa team.
With this win, Delhi secured five points, while Orissa drew blank.
SCOREBOARD
DELHI (1st innings): 78
ORISSA (1st innings): 80
DELHI (2nd innings): 150
A Chopra c Dhiraj b D Mohanty 6
G Gambhir b B Mohanty 0
V Sehwag b D Mohanty 32
V Kohli b Khatua 0
M Manhas b Khatua 0
R Bhatia lbw B Mohanty 6
P Bisht b D Mohanty 0
S Narwal (not out) 66
P Sangwan c H Das b Khatua 15
I Sharma c H Das b Khatua 5
P Awana lbw b D Mohanty 1
Extras (b-6, lb-7, nb-6) 19
Total (all out, 44.5 overs) 150
Fall of wickets: 1-5, 2-19, 3-28, 4-28, 5-49, 6-49, 7-49, 8-83, 9-103, 10-150
Bowling:
Debasis Mohanty 17.5-10-31-4
Basant Mohanty 13-2-47-2
Sukant Khatua 13-2-58-4
Niranjan Behera 1-0-1-0
ORISSA (2nd innings):
Bikash Swarup Pati c c Sehwag b Narwal 2
Shiv Sundar Das lbw Sharma 1
Niranjan Behera b Narwal 19
Subit Biswal b Sharma 4
Pravanjan Mullick lbw Narwal 0
P Jayachandra (not out) 19
Haladhar Das b Awana 19
Sukant Khatua lbw Awana 0
Debasis Mohanty lbw Sharma 6
Basant Mohanty run out 11
Dhiraj Singh b Sharma 0
Extras (b-13, lb-2) 15
Total (all out, 31.1 overs) 96
Fall of wickets: 1-2, 2-10, 3-26, 4-26, 5-30, 6-51, 7-51, 8-66, 9-84, 10-96
Bowling:
S Narwal 11-3-25-3
Ishant Sharma 11.2-3-27-4
Pradip Sangwan 2-0-12-0
P Awana 5-2-14-2
Rohit Bhatia 2-1-3-0