da aposte e ganhe： The Orissa slow attack of Sanjay Satpathy and Jagannath Das spun outTripura for a meagre 114 on the opening day of their Ranji Trophy tieat the Maharaja Bir Bikram College Stadium in Agartala on Friday
Sankhya Krishnan22-Dec-2000The Orissa slow attack of Sanjay Satpathy and Jagannath Das spun outTripura for a meagre 114 on the opening day of their Ranji Trophy tieat the Maharaja Bir Bikram College Stadium in Agartala on Friday. Inreply the visitors strolled to 80/2 at stumps with skipper Shiv SunderDas showing the way with an unbeaten 42.After the Orissa opening duo of Debashis Mohanty and Ajay Barick madethe initial breakthroughs, the slow men held complete sway over theproceedings. From a position of relative solidity at 85/2, Tripuralost their next eight wickets for 29. Offspinner Satpathy claimed 4/25and leg spinner Das complemented his efforts to a nicety with a bag of3/36. None of the last seven men reached double figures as the inningssputtered to a close in the 69th over. One-drop RN Ghosh top scoredwith 24.Opener Pradeep Das fell in the fourth over when Orissa got their turnbut his namesake SS Das, playing his first Ranji Trophy match of theseason, and Pravanjan Mullick steadied matters with a 55 runassociation. Although Mullick fell late in the final session, Das camethrough unbeaten in the company of Sanjay Raul as Orissa closed outthe day just 34 behind.