On the third day of the Ranji Trophy Group-A encounter, which took place on Thursday at the Nagaland Cricket Stadium, Bengal defeated Nagaland by an innings and 161 runs. Bengal’s victory was made possible by the debut performance of off-spinner Karan Lal, who collected an amazing five wickets.
After reaching 336 for four at the beginning of its first innings, Bengal declared its innings at 450 for four after guaranteeing a significant advantage of 284 runs.
The combined efforts of the Bengal spinners limited Nagaland’s second innings scoring to 123 runs, which allowed Bengal to collect seven points.
After the game was delayed for an hour and a half because of bad visibility, the overnight batters for Bengal, Manoj Tiwary and Shahbaz Ahmed, struck fast to create an undefeated partnership of 121 runs and crush the home team under the strain of a massive advantage.
Shahbaz
(75 not out, 55 runs, four fours, and five sixes) He exhibited his clean hits around the park in his breezy knock and scored his half-century before lunch. Among his clean knocks were three well-timed sixes.
Skipper Tiwary
(51 not out, 60 runs, 4 fours), who had previously hit a couple magnificent drives, achieved his fifty not out not long after play resumed, which was followed by the Bengal declaration.
The openers for Nagaland played with excellent purpose for more than an hour until the 22-year-old Karan, who bowled four overs in the first innings, gave the breakthrough by trapping Yugandhar Singh in front of the wicket. Karan supplied the breakthrough by bowling four overs in the first innings.
Pradipta Pramanik fired Joshua Ozukum.
Karan, who bowled accurately and generated some spin with his delivery, experimented with different angles by bowling over and around the wicket. He changed his strategy to secure the greatest possible bargain on the surface.
As Karan celebrated his victory, Rongsen Jonathon was bowled while playing for turn, Chetan Bist was leg before wicket, Zhimomi Hokaido was caught magnificently by a diving Pramanik at deep midwicket, and Imliwati Lemtur was held at forward short-leg.
Pramanik took out another batsman, while all-rounder Shahbaz took three wickets after making a spectacular catch, one of which was Nagaland’s leading run-scorer Shrikant Mundhe (28 runs, 81 balls, two fours), in order to underline spinners’ domination in the match.