da pinnacle： The Orissa-Bengal East Zone under-14 Tournament match at theEngineering School Ground in Cuttack meandered to a tame draw on thethird and final day on Thursday
Natarajan Sriram02-Nov-2000The Orissa-Bengal East Zone under-14 Tournament match at theEngineering School Ground in Cuttack meandered to a tame draw on thethird and final day on Thursday. Bengal by virtue of the 157 run firstinnings lead earned 5 points while Orissa had to be content withthree.Bengal in their second innings got to face just 10 overs in which theyscored 22 runs for the loss of opener Arindam Ghosh (7). The otheropener Rohan Bannerjee (7) along with Avishek Bhowmick (6) wereunbeaten when stumps were drawn on the final day.Opener N Dash (45) along with NC Mohanty (5) gave a sedate start forthe Orissa first innings by adding 28 runs in 5.5 overs. Then Dashadded 38 runs with S Patnaik (18) for the second wicket in 8.3 overs.Resuming at 77 for 4 on the final day, Orissa lost three furtherwickets. Then Sambit Rout (32) and Bharat Prakash Samal (39) added 70runs for the eighth wicket to lend some respectability to the Orissatotal. But after their fall the Orissa innings folded up at the scoreof 205. S Pearuddin (5 for 46) was the most successful bowler forBengal.Earlier put into bat on the opening day, Bengal ran up a huge 362.Opener Arindam Ghosh top scored with 69. The Bengal middle order thenchipped in with a solid batting display. The chief contributors beingS Mukherjee (37), S Peeruddin (29), P Dutta (43), S Gond (33) andskipper Himadri Pal (44).