Odisha suffer defeat in Shafi Darashah
Bhubaneswar: Avimanyu and Suuny Singh both of Haryana smashed unbeaten half century each and guided the team to register a massive nine wicket victory against Odisha in the final day of their four-day-long Zone-D league match in the Shafi Darashah Trophy All-India Cricket Tournament at Bangalore on Friday. Trailing by 80 runs, in the second innings Odisha scored 257 runs in 86 overs. Chasing the target of 177 runs to win, Haryana scored 130 runs for the loss of one wicket. While, Avimanyu scored unbeaten 50 runs and well supported by Sunny Singh who contributed 36 runs on Thursday. In the final day, Avimanyu and Sunny played a marvelous innings and contributed 75 runs and 61 runs unbeaten innings respectively and added 49 runs to their overnight team score of 130 runs for the loss of one wicket. In reply to Odisha’s 194 first innings score, Haryana scored 274 runs in 86.5 overs. All credit goes to Rahul Dhawan who smashed 108 runs and equally supported by Jayant Yadev with 71 runs.
Brief score: Odisha 194/10 in 73 overs (Govind Podder 100, Subhrajoyti Mishra 24, Deepak Behera 23; Rahul Tewata 4 wickets, Ashish Hooda 3 wickets) and 257/10 in 86 overs (A Singh 45, Biplab Samantary 86, Deepak Behera 38; Harshal Patel 3/47, Rahul Tebatia 5/84) lost to Haryana 274/10 in 86.5 overs ( Abhimanyu 32, Rahul Dhawan 108, Jayant Yadav 71; Alok Mangaraj 4/57, Deepak Behera 2/46, Jayanta Behera 2/57) and 179/1 in 60 overs (Nitin Saini 30, Avimanyu Khan 75 n.o; Sunny Singh 61 n.o;) by 9 wickets.