Hello and welcome to CricketCountry’s live coverage of Day 2 of the Ranji Trophy 2015-16, Group B match between Bengal and Odisha at the Bengal Cricket Academy Ground in Kolkata. Bengal who are in the fifth spot are looking for a desperate win here and rise above the table, while Odisha, who are in the seventh spot too are battling for the same. Going by the Day 1 performance, both the team had a dreadful performanc with the bat as they were budled for just above 100. Although Bengal had a 58 run lead over the visitors in the second innings at stumps, they would look to come up with a stellar performance with the bat as they still have three days of play left. Ranji Trophy 2015-16, complete coverage
Opener Abhimanyu Easwaran scored a classy 88 while 20 wickets fell in the opening day between Bengal and Odisha. Easwaranwas the top scorer as Bengal were bowled out for a meagre score of 142 as the wicket mostly looked and seemed to be under-prepared. The pitch condition was evident when Odisha too were bowled out for 107 with off-spinner Aamir Gani claming the most of 6 wickets for 34. He was also supported by the likes of Pragyan Ojha (2/25) and debutant Anurag Tiwary (2/26), reported PTI.
Teams:
Bengal: Aamir Gani, A R Eswaran, Anurag Tiwari, Sudip Chatterjee, Manoj Tiwari (c) Ashoke Dinda, Pragyan Ojha, Sayan Shekhar Mandal, Shreevats Goswami (wk), Pankaj Kumar Shaw, Pramod Chandila.
Odisha: Natraj Behera (c), Govinda Poddar, Basant Mohanty, Anurag Sarangi, Arabind Singh, Dhiraj Singh, Jayanta Behera, Suryakant Pradhan, Pratik Das, Ranjit Singh, Haladhar Das (wk).