Pradhan took a career-best haul of five for 27 in the second innings after picking up a brace in the first essay. He wrapped up the opposition second innings, taking the last two wickets in space of five balls. Poddar, who scored a century each in the previous two matches, capped the memorable victory with a counter-attacking unbeaten 77 (77b, 13x4). Sarangi top-scored with 27 in the first innings and followed it with an unbeaten 29 in the second.

Put into bat on a pitch that proved to be a happy-hunting ground for pace bowlers, Assam were bundled out for 92. But the joy in the Odisha camp proved shortlived as they too suffered similar batting collaps and folded up for 88. With a career-best haul of seven wickets for 21 runs, pacer Krishna Das played instrumental role in Assam taking taking the slender four-run first-innings lead.

The visitors, of course, put up better performance in the second innings. Riding on an unbeaten 42 by Jamaluddin Syed Mohammad they mustered a total of 137. Chasing 142 for victory, Odisha were reduced to 31 for two before a 111-run partnership for the unfinished third wicket between Poddar and Sarangi enabled Odisha clinch victory with over a day to spare.

Odisha made three changes for this match, bringing in Abhilash Mallick, Alok Sahoo and Alok Mangaraj in places of Girija Rout, Deepak Behera and Jayanta Behera. Odisha will next meet Delhi at KIIT Stadium in Bhubaneswar from October 30 to November 2.
SCOREBOARD:
ASSAM (1st innings): Pallav Das c Poddar b Sahoo 14, Kunal Saikia b Pradhan 4, Gokul Sharma c Sarangi b Mohanty 0, Amit Verma c Sahoo b Mangaraj 20, K Arun Karthick b Mohanty 3, Tarjinder Singh b Mohanty 17, Syed Mohammed b Mohanty 14, Sarupam Purkayastha c (Sub) b Sahoo 0, Pritam Das c Sarangi b Pradhan 1, Arup Das b Mohanty 8, Krishna Das (not out) 6; Extras (nb 4, lb 1) 5
Total (All out; 52.4 overs) 92
Fall of wickets: 1-4, 2-5, 3-27, 4-36, 5-54, 6-74, 7-75, 8-78, 9-78, 10-92
Bowling: Basant Mohanty 14.4-6-24-5, Suryakant Pradhan 10-1-33-2, Alok Sahoo 12-6-18-2, Alok Mangaraj 7-2-13-1, Biplab Samantaray 9-7-3-0
ODISHA (1st innings): Natraj Behera ODISHA (1st innings): Natraj Behera c Saikia b K Das 23, Rajesh Dhuper c T Singh b K Das 0, Govinda Poddar b K Das 0, Anurag Sarangi c Saikia b K Das 27, Pratik Das c Saikia b K Das 8, Biplab Samantaray c Saikia b A Das 5, Abhilash Mallick c&b A Das 4, Alok Sahoo c Purkayastha b A Das 6, Suryakant Pradhan c Saikia b K Das 2, Basant Mohanty b K Das 7, A Mangaraj (not out) 0; Extras (b 4, lb 1, nb 1) 6
Total (all out; 41 overs) 88
Fall of wickets: 1-14, 2-22, 3-23, 4-31, 5-44, 6-56, 7-62, 8-65, 9-87, 10-88
Bowling: Arup Das 13-5-45-3, Krishna Das 16-9-21-7, Pallavkumar Das 5-3-3-0, Pritam Das 7-2-14-0
ASSAM (2nd innings): P Das c Dhuper b A Sahoo 21, K Saikia b Pradhan 0, G Sharma c Mallick b Pradhan 0, A Verma c Poddar b Mohanty 0, Tajinder Singh lbw Mohanty 27, K Karthik c Dhuper b Pradhan 16, S Mohammed (not out) 42, S Purkayastha (run out) 10, Pritam Das c Dhuper b Mohanty 5, Arup Das c Dhuper b Mohanty 5, A Das b Pradhan 4, K Das c Samantaray b Pradhan 0; Extras (b 5, lb 2, nb 5) 12
Total (all out; 75.3 overs) 137
Fall of wickets: 1-8, 2-8, 3-13, 4-31, 5-55, 6-86, 7-102, 8-109, 9-137, 10-137
Bowling: B Mohanty 21-9-29-3, S Pradhan 15.5-5-27-5, A Sahoo 14-6-34-1, A Mangaraj 14-2-22-0, B Samamntaray 11-3-18-0.
ODISHA (2nd innings): N Behera b A Das 9, R Dhuper lbw Pritam Das 21, A Sarangi (not out) 29, G Poddar (not out) 77; Extras (nb 5, w 1) 6
Total (2 wkts; 35 overs) 142
Fall of wickets: 1-12, 2-31
Bowling: A Das 11-2-45-1, K Das 11-2-29-0, Pritam Das 9-2-42-1, Pallav Das 1-0-10-0, S Purkayastha 2-0-9-0, A Verma 1-0-7-0.
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TOP: Victorious Odisha team at Barabati Stadium in Cuttack on Oct 17, 2015.
RIGHT: Odisha vice-captain Govinda Poddar celebrates after match-winning knock in Cuttack on Oct 17, 2015.