Debutant off-spinner Karan Lal’s spectacular five-wicket haul enabled Bengal to outplay Nagaland by an innings and 161 runs on the third day of the Ranji Trophy Group-A match on the Nagaland Cricket Stadium on Thursday.
Beginning from 336 for 4, Bengal declared its first innings at 450 for 4 after making certain an enormous lead of 284 runs.
Bengal spinners’ mixed effort bundled Nagaland out for simply 123 runs in its second innings and secured seven factors.
Following a one-and-a-half-hour delayed begin attributable to poor visibility, Bengal in a single day batters Manoj Tiwary and Shahbaz Ahmed scored shortly to kind an unbeaten 121-run partnership and crush the house group below the stress of an enormous lead.
Shahbaz (75 n.o., 55b, 4×4, 5×6) displayed his clear hits, together with some well-timed sixes, across the park in his breezy knock and received his half-century earlier than lunch.
Skipper Tiwary (51 n.o., 60b, 4×4), who performed a number of attractive drives, reached his fifty quickly after resumption following which the Bengal declaration got here.
Nagaland openers batted with good intent for greater than an hour earlier than 22-year-old Karan, who bowled 4 overs within the first innings, offered the breakthrough by trapping Yugandhar Singh in entrance.
Soon, Pradipta Pramanik dismissed Joshua Ozukum.
Karan, who hit good areas and received some flip, explored angles bowling over and around the wicket. He switched ends to get the very best deal from the floor.
Rongsen Jonathon was bowled whereas taking part in for flip, Chetan Bist was lbw, Zhimomi Hokaido was spectacularly caught at deep midwicket by a diving Pramanik and Imliwati Lemtur was held at ahead short-leg as Karan celebrated his success.
Pramanik scalped one other batter and all-rounder Shahbaz, after finishing a superb catch, claimed three wickets, together with that of Nagaland’s top-scorer Shrikant Mundhe (28, 81b, 2×4), to script spinners’ dominance.
“Manoj bhaiya guided me well. This performance will boost my confidence,” mentioned Karan.
SCORES
Nagaland — 1st innings: 166
Bengal — 1st innings
Koushik Ghosh lbw b Hopongkyu 4, Abhimanyu Easwaran b Jonathon 170, Sudip Gharami c Yugandhar b Hopongkyu 104, Anustup Majumdar lbw b Jonathon 30, Manoj Tiwary (not out) 51, Shahbaz Ahmed (not out) 75
Extras (b-6, lb-3, nb-2, w-5) 16
Total (for 4 wickets declared in 96 overs) 450
Fall of wickets: 1-10, 2-234, 3-304, 4-329
Nagaland bowling: Hopongkyu 22-1-113-2, Khrievitso 12-1-46-0, Imliwati 23-0-94-0, Nagaho 12.5-1-63-0, Mundhe 9.1-1-46-0, Jonathon 17-0-79-2
Nagaland — 2nd innings
Yugandhar Singh lbw b Karan 19, Joshua Ozukum c Tiwary b Pramanik 26, Shrikant Mundhe c Tiwary b Shahbaz 28, Rongsen Jonathon b Karan 2, Chetan Bist lbw b Karan 4, Zhimomi Hokaido c Pramanik b Karan 12, Sedezhalie Rupero c Shahbaz b Pramanik 14, Imliwati Lemtur c Gharami b Karan 5, Nagaho Chisi c Ghosh b Shahbaz 8, Khrievitso Kense (not out) 2, Chopise Hopongkyu c Abhimanyu b Shahbaz 0
Extras (nb-3) 3
Total (in 45.3 overs) 123
Fall of wickets: 1-46, 2-50, 3-53, 4-57, 5-74, 6-97, 7-112, 8-120, 9-123
Bengal bowling: Ishan 2-1-2-0, Akash 2-0-12-0, Shahbaz 11.3-1-38-3, Pramanik 13-3-24-2, Karan 17-3-47-5