Orissa beat Saurashtra by ten wickets

Orissa defeated Saurashtra by 10 wickets to gain five points on the penultimate day of their Ranji Trophy Plate group 'A' match played in Rajkot on Friday.

The visitors, who enjoyed a huge first innings lead of 189 runs, bundled out the hosts for 245 runs in their second innings and made the required 56 runs without losing any wicket in just 15 overs.

Opener S S Das was unbeaten on 42 with nine fours while R R Parida, who was promoted as opener, was not out on 13.

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Earlier, resuming at their overnight score of 21 for two, Saurashtra lost three wickets quickly in the first hour of play but skipper Jaydev Shah's 77 in 112 balls (11x4) and some useful contribution from lower order batsmen S Jobanputra 37 (6x4, 1x6) and N Rathod 28 (5x4) avoided innings defeat for the hosts.

For Orissa, medium pacers D Mohanty and D Mangraj took three wickets each conceding 41 and 76 runs respectively.

Scorecard:

Saurashtra 1st Innings: 160.
Orissa 1st Innings: 349.
Saurashtra 2nd Innings (Overnight 21 for 2):
B Chauhan c Mullick b Mangraj 3
S Jogiyani b Mangraj 10
S Kotak c Raul b D Mohanty 9
V Vegda c S Singh b D Mohanty 20
P Bhatt c R Mohanty b D Mohanty 1
J Shah c R Parida b Mangraj 77
N Rathod b S S Dev 28
R Dhruv c S Singh b Mullick 13
S Jobanputra c S Singh b B Singh 37
S Maniar c Mangraj b S Raul 19
M Thanki not out 4
Extras: (lb 6, nb 18) 24
Total: (all out in 62.5 overs) 245

Fall of wickets: 1-8, 2-19, 3-50, 4-51, 5-53, 6-116, 7-155, 8-197, 9-239.

Bowling: D Mohanty 17-4-41-3, D Mangraj 16.1-3-76-3, Bipin Singh 10-2-34-1, S S Dev 8.3-1-43-1, P Mullick
5.2-1-22-1, P Jaychandra 4-0-17-0, S S Raul 1.5-0-6-1.

Orissa 2nd Innings:
S S Das not out 42
R Parida not out 13
Extras: (lb 3, w 1) 4
Total: (for no loss) 59

Bowling: S Jobanputra 5-0-19-0, S Maniar 7-0-29-0, M Thanki 3-2-8-0.