Published: Oct 17, 2015, 08:45 AM (IST)
Edited: Aug 31, 2016, 02:50 PM (IST)
Hello and welcome to CricketCountry’s live coverage of the third day of the ongoing Ranji Trophy 2015-16 Group A fixture between Odisha and Assam at the Barabati Stadium in Cuttack on Saturday. Assam, who have been the surprise package of the tournament so far after drawing against defending champions Karnataka and thrashing Rajasthan by an innings, are currently on top with a 141-run lead. The visitors reached a score of 137 for 8 at the end of Day 2 in what has turned out to be a seesaw-battle so far. Assam were dismissed for a mere 92, courtesy Basant Mohanty’s 5 for 24. They however, fought back with the ball brilliantly on the second day in order to bowl Odisha out for 88 and gain a four-run lead! Read all Ranji Trophy 2015-16 team previews here
Krishna Das was the wrecker-in-chief of the hosts, recording fabulous figures of 16-9-21-7. Only two batsmen — Nataraj Behera (23) and Anurag Sarangi (27) — managed to cross over to double figures. The Odisha bowlers seemed to have got the better of the Assam batsmen for the second time in the Test, having reduced them to 109 for 8 before Jamaluddin Syed Mohammad’s unbeaten 42 has kept them alive so far. Whatever the target they set from this point onwards, Assam will be the favourites to complete a victory.
Live cricket scores Odisha 142/2 | Target 141 | Overs 35| Batting:Anurag Sarangi 29(101), Govinda Poddar 77(77): Odhisha have won this match by eight wickets. Anurag Sarangi and Govinda Poddar remained unbeaten on 29 and 77 respectively and helped Odhisha win this match convincingly. Poddar played run a ball and struck 13 beautifully timed fours in his unbeaten 77. Basant Mohanty took eight wickets in the match. Assam batters let them down in this match. Odhisha gain six points and Assam none in this match.
Live cricket scores Odisha 96/2 | Target 141 | Overs 25| Batting:Anurag Sarangi 19(71), Govinda Poddar 44(45): Odisha need 45 more runs to win. Govinda Poddar is nearing his half century. He has struck eight fours in his innings. It’s just a matter of around 15 overs for Odisha to win this match. Let’s see if Assam could offer some resistance.
Live cricket scores Odisha 45/2 | Target 141 | Overs 13.4| Batting:Anurag Sarangi 3(34), Govinda Poddar 12(12): Odisha are batting on 45 and have lost two wickets in the process. Anurag Sarangi and Govinda Poddar are taking their time to settle down. Odhisha needs 97 more runs to win. Pritam Das is bowling well, pitching in hard and using good variations to dupe the batters. OUT! Natraj Behera b Arup Das 9(5), Rajesh Dhuper lbw Pritam Das 21(32)
Live cricket scores Assam 137 | Target 141 | Overs 75.3| Batting: Syed Mohammed 42(164): Assam are bundled out for 137. They lost their last two wickets— Arup Das and Krishna Das without adding a single run on board today and within nine balls this morning. Syed Mohammed ran out of partners and remained unbeaten on 42. Assam bowlers will have to repeat the feat of their first innings to win this match. There will be a result in this match this is for sure unless rain plays spoilsport or something unprecedented happens. OUT! Arup Das b Suryakant Pradhan 4(33), Krishna Das c Biplab Samantaray b Suryakant Pradhan 0(2)
Brief scores:
Assam 92 (Amit Verma 20, Tarjinder Singh 17; Basant Mohanty 5 for 24, Suryakant Pradhan 2 for 33, Alok Chandra Sahoo 2 for 18) and 137 for 8 (Jamaluddin Syed Mohammad 42*; Suryakant Pradhan 3 for 27, Basant Mohanty 3 for 29) lead Odisha 88 (Natraj Behera 23; Krishna Das 4 for 5, Arup Das 1 for 33) by 141 runs.
Squads:
Odisha: Biplab Samantray (c), Basant Mohanty, Jayanta Behera, Pratik Das, Abhilash Mallick, Suryakant Pradhan, Girjia Rout, Alok Chandra Sahoo, Govind Podder, Deepak Behera, Natraj Behera, Amit Das, Rajesh Dhupar(wk), Anurag Sarangi, Roshan Kumar Rao.
Assam: Gokul Sharma (c), Arun Karthik (vc), Abu Nechim, Amit Verma, Bikash Chetri, Arup Das, Krishna Das, Pritam Das, Pallavkumar Das, Rishav Das, Swarupam Purkayastha, Sibsankar Roy, Kunal Saikia (wk), Jamaluddin Syed Mohammad, Tarjinder Singh.
