Debasis Mohanty and Dhiraj Singh bowled well to help Orissa restrict hosts Gujarat to 237 for seven at the close of opening day of their Ranji Trophy (Group-A) Super League match at Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Stadium in Ahmedabad today. Left-arm spinner Dhiraj bagged four wickets, including that of opposition skipper Parthiv Patel to put Orissa in a slightly advantagious position after Test discard Mohanty gave them an early break-through, castling J Desai in the first over of the match. Gujarat, however, escaped a batting debacle thanks to Parthiv’s responsible knock of 83 (128 balls, 10x4) and his 89-run fifth-wicket partnership with R Bhatt (46). Later, A Makada strengthened the innings with a cameo unbeaten knock of 31, which included four sixes and one four. SCOREBOARD GUJARAT (1st innings): H Joshipura b D Mohanty 36, J Desai c Biswal b D Mohanty 0, N Patel c Mullick b D Singh 20, P Patel c R Mohanty b D Singh 83, B Thaker c Das b D Singh 0, R Bhatt c Pati b D Singh 46, T Patel (batting) 11, S Yadav (run out) 5, A Makda (batting) 31: Extras (b-2, lb-1, nb-2) 5 Total (7 wkts, 91 overs) 237 Fall of wickets: 1-1, 2-35, 3-88, 4-89, 5-178, 6-194, 7-203 Bowling: Debasis Mohanty 17-3-26-2, Basant Mohanty 19-7-41-0, Pravanjan Mullick 3-2-4-0, Dhiraj Singh 28-6-88-4, Paresh Patel 11-2-44-0, Niranjan Behera 5-2-9-0, Rakesh Mohanty 8-1-22-0.