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Bottom-placed Tripura turned underdog vigor into a demolition service, yet Bengal ne'er saw the invoice coming, arsenic the Ranji Trophy third-round fixture present ended successful a gully with the big pocketing the first-innings pb and, successful turn, 3 points successful melodramatic manner connected Tuesday.
For Bengal, a beardown quarterfinal favourite from Elite Group C, it would person felt similar a punch successful the gut. This, aft all, was lone its 2nd gully successful 18 First Class games against Tripura since the North-East side’s inception successful 1985-86.
Centurion Hanuma Vihari’s elegant batsmanship and Manisankar Murasingh’s silky strokeplay connected the penultimate time acceptable things up magnificently for the last 3 sessions. With 3 wickets successful hand, Tripura needed 64 to assertion the innings lead.
Hanuma Vihari. | Photo Credit: Santadeep Dey
Abishek Porel wasted nary clip successful throwing the caller shot to Mohammed Shami, 4 overs station resumption. However, that did small to enactment the upwind up Murasingh, who breathed beingness into an enervated dugout with boundaries.
Vihari fell against the transition of play, having failed to get his pads retired of the mode successful the 90th over. With Tripura inactive 20 distant from Bengal’s mark, Abishek’s boys would person thought they had a ft successful the door. However, a deficiency of homework connected section club-cricket prima Rana Datta, who isn’t a mug with the bat, outgo Bengal 2 points.
Once the pb was successful the bag, Murasingh was handed carte blanche. A heave implicit midwicket disconnected Shahbaz Ahmed’s bowling brought up his 5th FC 100 successful beforehand of a doting location crowd.
They would person hoped for lightning to onslaught doubly erstwhile Bengal mislaid 3 men — and astir a 4th successful Shahbaz — for 13. Hrituraj Ghosh Roy, having dropped the 2nd drawback of this game, had to ticker Shahbaz get a 50 earlier the teams shook hands for a draw.
The scores: Bengal — 1st innings: 336.
Tripura — 1st innings: Bikram Kumar Das b Kaif 19, Hrituraj Ghosh Roy b Ishan 5, Sridam Paul b Kaif 6, Hanuma Vihari lbw b Ishan 141, Bikramjit Debnath lbw b Kaif 0, Swapnil Singh st. Abishek b Shahbaz 4, Sentu Sarkar lbw b Rahul 20, Vijay Shankar c Abishek b Kaif 34, Manisankar Murasingh (not out) 102, Rana Datta b Rahul 27, Abhijit Sarkar b Ishan 1; Extras: (nb-3, b-10, lb-9, w-4): 26; Total (in 103.2 overs): 385.
Fall of wickets: 1-29, 2-29, 3-35, 4-35, 5-53, 6-93, 7-200, 8-316, 9-377.
Bengal bowling: Shami 25-3-76-0, Ishan 23.2-6-72-3, Kaif 24-4-79-4, Shahbaz 19-0-84-1, Rahul 12-0-55-2.
Bengal — 2nd innings: Sudip Kumar Gharami lbw Rana 0, Kazi Junaid Saifi lbw b Abhijit 0, Shakir Habib Gandhi c Hrituraj b Abhijit 3, Anustup Majumdar (not out) 34, Shahbaz Ahmed (not out) 51; Extras: (lb-2): 2; Total (for 3 wkts. successful 25 overs): 90.
Fall of wickets: 1-0, 2-0, 3-13.
Tripura bowling: Rana 4-2-8-1, Abhijit 6-3-11-2, Murasingh 2-0-4-0, Bikramjit 4-0-20-0, Swapnil 5-0-23-0, Sridam 2-0-8-0, Bikram 1-0-3-0, Vijay 1-0-11-0.
