Cooch Behar Trophy 2019-20 : Pondicherry Vs Manipur (JU Second Campus, Salt Lake)
Kolkata, 13-15 Dec’19:
The innings victory of Pondicherry against Manipur in the Cooch Behar Trophy match played at Kolkata was well scripted by the double century of Shreeraj, who played a brilliant and dominating innings in reply to Manipurs’ first innings score of 155 all out.
One man domination by Shreeraj
When the top order is just playing a lukewarm game and a big partnership is hard to come by, Shreeraj played an innings that simply needed only a partner at the other end as he scored at a brisk pace with a strike rate of 85.55, to take the team to beyond safety and to ensure a win with a score of 225 off 263 balls with 28 boundaries and two sixes, when only the no.4 four batsman Aryan Bangar scored a noticeable score of 45 off 78balls, which helped Pondicherry post a total of 376 in the first innings.
Earlier, in the first innings of Manipur, Suresh Singh played a patient innings to score 47 off 152 balls and the skipper Bidas scored a valuable 43 off 79 balls. Pondicherry bowler Aryan Bangar took 3 for 34 while Pooviarasan and Rajaram took two wickets each.
Resuming the second innings with a deficit of 221 runs, Manipur was never in comfort as they lost wickets quickly and were bundled out for 137 in their second innings; handing an innings victory to Pondicherry. Arbaaz Uddin took 3 for 28 with the support of Aryan Bangar, Rajaram and Pooviarasan lending good support by taking two wickets each. Aryan Bangar as a tally of 5 wickets in the match.
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