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Half-centuries from Sudip Gharami, Abishek Porel and Sumanta Gupta placed Bengal connected a decent level contempt an accumulation of reckless shots connected the opening time of the Ranji Trophy Group-C lucifer against Gujarat astatine the Eden Gardens present connected Saturday. Asked to bat, Bengal was astatine 244 for 7 erstwhile atrocious airy stopped play astir 50 minutes earlier the scheduled close.
On a transportation that lacked gait and bounce, experienced Gujarat seamer Chintan Gaja, who returned to the XI portion starring spinner Ravi Bishnoi was near out, showed subject and tested the Bengal openers successful morning. He provided the aboriginal breakthrough by uncovering Sudip Chatterjee’s extracurricular edge.
Captain Abhimanyu Easwaran and Gharami displayed bully knowing to stitchery runs successful contrasting styles for a 67-run stand. Gharami (56, 90b, 12x4) impressed with his drives and cuts and collected astir of his runs done boundaries.
In the zone: Porel unleashed cracking shots.
Their concern ended erstwhile Abhimanyu was trapped successful beforehand by Gaja.
More trouble
Bengal was successful for much occupation arsenic Anustup Majumdar, who uncharacteristically mislaid patience aft playing 13 dot balls and deed high, and Gharami threw distant their wickets connected either broadside of luncheon portion stepping retired against left-arm spinner Siddharth Desai.
With the transportation easing retired successful the mediate session, Porel (51, 71b, 9x4) and Sumanta (58 batting, 108b, 8x4) played freely. Abishek unleashed cracking drives and exquisite flicks, portion Sumanta swept and pulled with authorization and chopped nicely to forge an important 83-run association.
A rash changeable from Porel ended the stand. The left-hander swept crossed a transportation from extracurricular the off-stump to beryllium caught behind. It gave Siddharth his 3rd wicket.
Shahbaz Ahmed fell cheaply, but Sumanta geared down responsibly to absorption connected moving betwixt the wickets and added 41 with Suraj Jaiswal. After scoring his 2nd consecutive fifty, Sumanta remained unbeaten with Akash Deep astatine stumps.
The scores: Bengal -- 1st innings: Sudip Chatterjee c Urvil b Gaja 3, Abhimanyu Easwaran lbw b Gaja 20, Sudip Gharami b Siddharth 56, Anustup Majumdar c Nagwaswalla b Siddharth 0, Abishek Porel c Urvil b Siddharth 51, Sumanta Gupta (batting) 58, Shahbaz Ahmed lbw b Nagwaswalla 2, Suraj Jaiswal lbw b Jayswal 21, Akash Deep (batting) 9; Extras (b-8, lb-14, w-2): 24; Total (for 7 wkts. successful 72 overs): 244.
Fall of wickets: 1-8, 2-75, 3-82, 4-95, 5-178, 6-183, 7-224.
Gujarat bowling: Nagwaswalla 17-1-44-1, Gaja 19-8-46-2, Priyajitsing 11-4-37-0, Jaymeet 3-1-18-0, Siddharth 17-2-55-3, Jayswal 5-0-22-1.
Toss: Gujarat.
