da pinnacle： Tripura ended a fruitful day on the field scoring 11 for no loss afterbundling out Bengal for 190 in their first innings on the opening dayof their East Zone Cooch Behar Trophy (Under-19) Tournament match atthe PTG ground in Narsingarh on Friday
Natarajan Sriram21-Oct-2000Tripura ended a fruitful day on the field scoring 11 for no loss afterbundling out Bengal for 190 in their first innings on the opening dayof their East Zone Cooch Behar Trophy (Under-19) Tournament match atthe PTG ground in Narsingarh on Friday.Opting to bat, Bengal made a sedate start with openers skipper APChakraborty (11) and Arindam Das (26) adding 37 runs for the firstwicket. Chakraborthy was the first to be dismissed falling leg beforeto Routh. His partner Arindam did not last long and with no run addedto the total, he was caught by RS Ghosh off Tushar Saha. Then SubhamoyDas (42) and A Nandi (32) added 68 runs for the third wicket off 108balls. Nandi became Saha’s next victim when he gave the bowler areturn catch. Das was dismissed soon after, caught by Gosh offDebnath.A Sarkar scored a fighting 46 but Saha and Debnath ran through themiddle and lower order to bundle out Bengal. In reply, Tripura got toface just two overs during which the openers S Paul (6) and SandipBanerjee (4) managed to come through unbeaten.