The bowling exploits of Shib Sagar Singh continues as he helped Bengal beatOrissa by eight wickets at Baharampur Stadium, Baharampur in the Under-22Tournament between Bengal and Orissa on Thursday
Santhosh S21-Dec-2000The bowling exploits of Shib Sagar Singh continues as he helped Bengal beatOrissa by eight wickets at Baharampur Stadium, Baharampur in the Under-22Tournament between Bengal and Orissa on Thursday.On Tuesday Bengal won the toss and asked Orissa to have a bat first. Orissa were100/3 when Singh started to strike, picking up five wickets in a row to bowlthem out for 140 in 55.4 overs. RR Das with 48 top-scored for Orissa as Singhreturned with the figures of 14-4-32-5. Arindam Das who opened for Bengal made asuperb 85, which included 13 fours guided Bengal to a 100 run lead. There werenotable contributions from RR Nath (40) and D Chakrabarty (32) as Bengal wereall out for 240 in 89.1 overs. Saurav Sehgal was impressive with the ballpicking up 6/62 in 32 overs as three batsmen were run out in the innings. Orissawere helped along by a 86 runs fourth wicket partnership between Das and NBehera. Das who had excelled in the first innings came good in the second too,scoring 73 runs, hitting one six and seven boundaries. Behera made 36 thatincluded 5 boundaries. S Mohanty played a little cameo of 36 low in the ordersmashing two sixes and three fours. Shib Sagar Singh picked up three morewickets for 47 runs. Orissa were bowled out for 196 in 90.3 overs leaving Bengalto make 97 to win. Bengal started badly losing two wickets with just 31 on theboard but were guided past their target by Arindam Das and Ranabir Nath as theyadded 61 runs for the unbeaten third wicket partnership. Arindam Das was severeon the bowlers smashing three sixes and four boundaries as he reached his fiftyin 48 balls to remain unbeaten on 51 at the close of play. Nath made 35 in 32balls hitting a six and five boundaries. Bengal took all eight points toOrissa’s none.