Gharami cracks his maiden double century as Bengal takes control

KALYANI

Sudip Gharami’s gritty and liable maiden treble period helped Bengal unafraid a 123-run archetypal innings pb connected the 3rd time of its Ranji Trophy quarterfinal against Andhra astatine the Bengal Cricket Academy crushed present connected Sunday.

Starting the time astatine 199 for five, Bengal reached 418 for six astatine stumps with Gharami (216 batting, 451b, 27x4) and wicketkeeper-batter Shakir Habib Gandhi (45 batting, 113b, 3x4, 1x6) sharing an unbeaten 100-run partnership.

The time belonged to Bengal.

Gharami and Sumanta Gupta concentrated hard to physique connected their overnight unbeaten 46-run basal and gathered 89 much without losing immoderate crushed successful the opening session.

Pace and rotation combo

In the archetypal hour, Andhra mostly employed the pace-spin operation of Nitish Kumar Reddy and Saurabh Kumar from circular the wicket. While Nitish attacked the batters with bouncers to a loaded onside tract and waited for them to marque mistakes, Saurabh looked to incorporate them.

As the maneuver did not succeed, Andhra took the 2nd caller shot successful the 88th over.

With the transportation easing out, Gharami reached his 150 and Sumanta, his half-century, to assistance the spirits successful the Bengal camp. The 2 rotated the onslaught too unleashing large hits. Gharami pulled, drove and swept assuredly, portion Sumanta chopped and pulled nicely to get boundaries.

Bengal overtook Andhra successful the 3rd implicit aft luncheon earlier losing Sumanta (81, 167b, 9x4, 1x6), caught astatine silly constituent disconnected Saurabh, to witnesser the extremity of a important 165-run stand.

The diminutive Gharami, who survived a DRS referral seeking a limb earlier decision, banked connected his unwavering absorption and immense reserve of patience to consistently connection a consecutive bat. He utilized his feet good against the spinners, who shared the bulk of Andhra’s workload connected a conducive track.

Gharami formed different important relation with Gandhi, who showed bully temperament and skills, to consolidate Bengal’s lead.

The scores: Andhra — 1st innings: 295.

Bengal — 1st innings: Abhimanyu Easwaran c Rasheed b Nitish 1, Sudip Chatterjee b Sasikanth 13, Sudip Gharami (batting) 216, Anustup Majumdar c (sub) Revanth b Sasikanth 9, Suraj Jaiswal b Vijay 20, Shahbaz Ahmed b Saurabh 5, Sumanta Gupta c Gnaneshwar b Saurabh 81, Shakir Habib Gandhi (batting) 45; Extras (b-11, lb-8, nb-5, w-4): 28; Total (for six wkts. successful 146 overs): 418.

Fall of wickets: 1-9, 2-27, 3-43, 4-123, 5-153, 6-318.

Andhra bowling: Nitish 18-1-57-1, Saiteja 17-3-47-0, Sasikanth 19-3-59-2, Raju 23-3-67-0, Saurabh 47-13-81-2, Vijay 18-2-70-1, Rasheed 4-0-18-0.