da 888casino： A third wicket partnership of 108 runs between Devang Gandhi andSrikkanth Kalyani enabled Bengal to draw their Ranji Trophy SuperLeague encounter at the Eden Gardens on Sunday
da dobrowin： Sakyasen Mittra27-Feb-2000A third wicket partnership of 108 runs between Devang Gandhi andSrikkanth Kalyani enabled Bengal to draw their Ranji Trophy SuperLeague encounter at the Eden Gardens on Sunday. Chasing a victorytarget of 310 in 46 overs, Bengal finished the day at 180 runs for theloss of five wickets. Earlier, Rajasthan had declared their secondinnings closed at 216 for the loss of eight wickets. Rajasthan managedfive points from the match. Bengal, on the other hand finished withthree and their chances of qualifying for the knockout stage nowappear slim as they have two tough matches against Karnataka andMumbai.It was a day when a number of personal achievements wererecorded. Utpal Chatterjee took five wickets in the second inningsonce more to have match figures of 10 for 160. It was the fourth timethat Chatterjee recorded a haul of 10 wickets in a Ranji Trophy gameand the 20th time that he had five wickets in an innings. Kalyanibecame the 27th player and fourth from Bengal to score over 5,000 runsin the Ranji Trophy. When he reached 40, square cutting left armspinner D.P.Singh, Kalyani had joined the elite ranks of Pankaj Roy,Arun Lal and Ashok Malhotra from Bengal.Bengal, aspiring for an outright win had two early successes in theday. Skipper Chatterjee sent back Nikhil Doru and off spinnerSourashis Lahiri accounted for Kuldip Singh to have Rajasthantottering at 96 for 5. However, a sixth wicket stand of 90 betweenSanjeev Sharma (54 with seven boundaries) and Saket Bhatia (48, 8×4)dashed their hopes. The partnership was finally broken by Lahiri whohad Sharma bowled as the batsman tried to swing him over midwicket. Shortly afterwards, the Rajasthan skipper Gagan Khoda declaredthe innings at 216.When Bengal batted, Sanjeev Sharma had Alokendu Lahiri caught behindand Singh had Rohan Gavaskar caught bat-pad at short leg to haveBengal tottering at 23 for two. But Gandhi and Kalyani with some finestrokes brought things under control. Gandhi had one huge six over midwicket of Jaykumar and eight boundaries in his 67. Kalyani who got hissecond fifty of the match also had eight fours in his 56. Most of themcame through pleasing drives in the `V’ between mid on and mid of. Atfinal draw of stumps Saba Karim (17) and LR Shukla (1) were at thecrease.
