This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.
Ranji Trophy: Abhishek Raut, Debashish Samantray keep Odisha in command over J&K
Samantray and Raut put on on 113 for the sixth wicket and the last four wickets added 94.
23 December 2018 • 5:00 PM
Odisha enjoyed two days of good cricket to leave hosts Jammu and Kashmir trailing by 175 runs at stumps on day two of their seventh round Group C Ranji Trophy 2018-19 in Jammu.
Odisha converted a lead of 36 to 196 with Debashish Samantray (85) and Abhishek Raut (116*) the chief contributors. Anurag Sarangi added one run to his overnight score before he became the first wicket to fall, and from 100/2 the Odisha innings slumped to 115/5 as Irfan Pathan and Umar Nazir made swift inroads.
ALSO READ: Ashutosh Aman, debutant Mangal Mehrur lead Bihar to big lead
Samantray and Raut put on on 113 for the sixth wicket and the last four wickets added 94 runs.Only two other players reached double figures. Irfan (4/52) and Nazir (3/49) led J&K’s bowling admirably.
By the close of play, J&K had reached 27 for no loss.
Brief scores: Jammu & Kashmir 127 & 27/0 trail Odisha 323 (Raut 116*, Samantray 85, Sarangi 57) by 169 runs