The Kolkata giants posted their fourth straight victory in Group-E in the AFC Cup football tournament.
Former India captain Sourav Ganguly and Wriddhiman Saha hit unbeaten centuries to take Bengal out of the rut after a top order collapse against Delhi on the opening day in their Ranji Trophy Super League encounter at the Jadavpur University ground in Salt Lake on Tuesday.
Defending champions Army XI and JCT, Phagwara, also drew goalless in another Durand Cup match.
Surya made his senior India captaincy debut with a two-wicket victory over Australia in the first T20 International in Visakhapatnam
East Bengal got the better of Mohammedan Sporting by the odd goal in three at the Salt Lake Stadium in Kolkata on Tuesday evening to move up to seventh in the Airtel I-League table.
A round-up of Day 2 of the Ranji Trophy matches played on Sunday
Saurashtra's middle-order batter Sheldon Jackson followed in senior teammate Cheteshwar Pujara's footsteps, completing his century on day two of their Ranji Trophy Group A tie against Rajasthan to guide the defending champions to a 300-plus total in Jaipur on Saturday.
East Bengal pipped Federation Cup and National Football League champions Mahindra United 2-1 to lift the ONGC Super Cup title
Royal Bengal Tigers, powered by a brilliant knock by its captain Craig McMillan and an equally fine performance by the bowlers, on Thursday night registered an emphatic 35-run win against Delhi Giants in their ICL T20 encounter at the Lal Bahadur Shastri stadium in Hyderabad.
Goals from Matti Steinmann (6th) and Anthony Pilkington (68th) secured the victory for SCEB
Hosts Bengal face an uphill task of surviving the whole of fourth day against Railways in order to avoid a fourth outright defeat in their final Group A league encounter of the Ranji Trophy.
Dempo beat East Bengal through Tolgay Ozbey's 75th minute goal in the 18th round encounter of the I-League, played at the Nehru Stadium, Margao on Sunday.
Even as Central Bureau of Investigation probes the Ishrat Jahan and Sadiq Jamal alleged fake encounter cases, at least 555 such alleged extra judicial killings have been reported in the country, including 138 in Uttar Pradesh, in the last four years.
Buoyed by his call-up into the Indian Test side, all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja snared four Bengal wickets and then scored an undefeated 67 to put Saurashtra in complete command in a Ranji Trophy group A league encounter in Rajkot on Sunday.
Riding on some superb saves by Tharangachan Tungshang, Mohammedan Sporting held East Bengal goalless in their sixth-round encounter of the ONGC I-League at the floodlit Yuba Bharati Kirangan in Kolkata on Sunday.
Dudu Omagbemi, Edeh Chidi and Adewusi Adebayo scored a goal each as Sporting Clube de Goa won 3-2.
'We cried our hearts out as we saw our huts going underwater. It was hard to believe that I was fast asleep at the same spot just 15-20 minutes ago'
A five-wicket haul by Dinda guided Bengal to victory in the Ranji Trophy match.
Bengal's pace trio of Ashoke Dinda, Sourav Sarkar and Shami Ahmed failed miserably. They weren't able to get the last six Gujarat wickets on the final day as home team managed only three points from the third round Ranji Trophy encounter at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata.
East Bengal beat Mohun Bagan 2-1 and now stand just three points away from their third NFL title.
East Bengal faced a stiff resistance before beating qualifiers Army XI 3-1 in a Durand Cup quarter-final league match.
A round-up of Ranji matches played on Saturday
The victory enabled the defending champions displace Dempo from the top spot in the National Football League.
Five persons, suspected to be involved in the two recent daring bank robberies in the city, were shot dead by police in an alleged encounter in the wee hours on Thursday.
A Central Reserve Police Force jawan of the specialised COBRA unit was killed and a Deputy Commandant injured in a fierce encounter with Maoists at Chiklam village in Jharkhand's Naxal-hit Ghatsila sub-division on Wednesday.
'Laluji is like my father and I am like his son.'
East Bengal squandered chances galore and ended up a playing a goal-less draw against JCT in their round three I-League encounter at the flood-lit Yuba Bharati Krirangan (YBK) in Kolkata on Sunday.
ONGC rode on Yusa Katsumi's late goal to beat heavyweights East Bengal 1-0 and pull off their second major upset of the season, in a 15th round I-League encounter at the Ambedkar stadium in Delhi on Tuesday. Following the victory, ONGC, who had shocked fancied Dempo 3-0, moved up a rung, to seventh, with 16 points from 14 matches.
On May 1, SpiceJet's Mumbai-Durgapur flight encountered severe turbulence during its descent phase, injuring 14 passengers and three cabin crew members.
Manoj Tiwary served a timely reminder to the selectors with an inspirational 191 as hosts Bengal stayed on course for bonus points against Gujarat in a third round Ranji Trophy encounter at the Eden Gardens on Monday.
Opener Hamish Marshall's unbeaten 76 and Upul Chandana's four-wicket haul enabled Royal Bengal Tigers score an eight-wicket victory over Lahore Badshahs in the Indian Cricket League T20 encounter at the Lal Bahadur Shastri stadium in Hyderabad on Sunday night. Chasing a target of 140, Marshall played a fine innings from the beginning and went on to score 76 runs, including two sixes and nine boundaries off 53 balls.
Sporting Club de Goa shocked East Bengal 1-0 to storm into the semi-finals of the Federation Cup football tournament.
East Bengal came back from a two goals deficit to draw against Mohammadan Sporting 2-2 in their round 17 encounter of the ONGC I-League at the Yuba Bharati Krirangan (YBK) at Salt Lake in Kolkata on Saturday.
Baichung Bhutia's brace helped the defending champions beat Salgaocar Sports Club 3-1 in the National Football League.
East Bengal had to sweat till midway of the second-half before a Sanju Pradhan strike helped the defending champions beat Sporting Clube de Goa 1-0 in a Group C match and reach the semi-finals of the 30th Federation Cup at the Vidyasagar Krirangan in Barasat on Monday.
Churchill Brothers edged past East Bengal 2-1 in the 11th round encounter of the ONGC I-League at the Yuba Bharati Krirangan in Kolkata on Monday to end their campaign in the first phase one point adrift of second-placed Mohun Bagan on 21.
A summary of Wednesday's play in Ranji Trophy matches across the country.
Surkumar Singh scored a brace of goals in a 4-1 win over East Bengal in the Kolkata Super Division football league.
East Bengal picked up three valuable points with a solitary goal victory over Mahindra United in an I-league exchange in Kolkata on Sunday.
Favourites East Bengal paid heavily for defensive lapses as they lost by a solitary goal to Churchill Brothers in their opening encounter of the fifth edition of the I-League football tournament at the floodlit Yuba Bharati Krirangan in Kolkata.
