Saurashtra vs Bengal
Shahbaz Ahmed and Abishek Porel have saved Bengal from the blushes with brilliant half-centuries in a seventh-wicket 100-run partnership.
Bengal got a very disastrous start on the first day of the Ranji Trophy final playing against Saurashtra at the Eden Gardens on Thursday.
Lethal bowling attack
Unadkat and Sakariya destroyed the batting line up of Bengal with five strikes in just over an hour.Harvik
Desai created an advantage for Saurashtra’s advantage with having an aggressive approach.
Left-arm pacers Unadkat and Chetan Sakariya partnered in their bowling to destroy the batting line-up of Bengal.
They bowled in the right line and length and got an impressive bounce and movement to dismiss five batters of Bengal in a little over an hour.
Unadkat wounded the first blood of Bengal in the opening over as he got opener Abhimanyu Easwaran wicket who gave a catch at forward short-leg for a duck.
Sakariya gave a double blow in the second over. He took the wicket of debutant Sumanta Gupta who gave catch at second slip. Sudip Gharami’s wicket followed with him getting bowled shouldering arms.
Captain of Bengal Manoj Tiwary went out against Unadkat who gave catch at gully.And Anustup Majumdar caught Chirag Jani behind.
Akash Ghatak was Sakariya’s third victim as Bengal came down at 65 for six.
Brave Shots
The combination of experienced and young Abhishek and Shahbaz then showed determination in the field. They were playing each delivery carefully.
As the pitch started getting easy, the duo scored runs at a faster pace in the middle session.They reached their fifties and completed a 101-run valuable partnership for their team.
The duo showed some confident shots to boundaries. While Shahbaz mostly showed his faith on cuts and flicks,
Abishek relied on drives and cuts. They also changed their strike and received encouragement from the nearly 3,000 supporters.
Their brave stand got over with spinner Dharmendra Jadeja getting Shahbaz,getting caught at short-leg at the stroke of tea.
Abishek could survive owing to DRS at 42 an lbw decision. He could get his second consecutive half-century. But he had to depart as soon as he gave his catch to Jani at first slip.
Dharmendra and Unadkat both secured three wickets to claim 300 Ranji wickets. The duo closed the Bengal innings early in the final session of Bengal vs Saurashtra Ranji final.
Saurashtra got a good start as Harvik Desai hit the Bengal pacers. Akash Deep and Mukesh Kumar each took a wicket to stop further damage for their team.
Final team
Bengal: Manoj Tiwary (C), W Chatterjee, Shahbaz Ahmed, Ishan Porel, Mukesh Kumar, Akash Deep, P Chakraborty,Anustup Majumdar, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Abishek Porel, S Mondal,
Saurashtra: Jaydev Unadkat ©,Arpit Vasavada, SS Patel, Jay Gohil, Dharmendrasinh Jadeja, Chetan Sakariya, Parth Bhut,Navneet Vora, Chirag Jani, Sheldon Jackson, Harvik Desai,
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