Kolkata, Feb 18 Former Test opener Shiv Sundar Das steered Orissa to a seven wickets victory against Tripura, hitting 73 runs in 83 balls, in Vijay Hazare Trophy for East Zone here today.
In another match Bengal defeated Assam by eight wickets, easily surpassing the visitors' 269/8 in 50 overs with opener Wriddhiman Saha (102 not out) and Sourav Ganguly (62) reaching a total of 272/2 with 4.3 overs to spare.
While Orissa grabbed five points, including bonus, Bengal got four points from today's win.
Sent in to bat, Tripura were skittled out for 179 in 44 overs owing to the fine bowling from Bibhudutta Panda, Dhiraj Singh and Natraj Behera, who scalped two wickets each. Three of Tripura's batsmen were run out.
The fourth batsman, Nishith Shetty, contributed 47 runs, hitting eight 4s, while opener Sourabh Dubey made 39 for Tripura, which had defeated Assam in the opener by 29 runs.
Orissa piled up the targeted score easily in 33.5 overs (180/3), losing three wickets, as opener Natraj Behera and Shiv Sundar Das set up the base with a 72-run partnership before Behera was run out on 44 after hitting nine 4s.
Das's 73 came with eight 4s before he was caught by Joseph Bhowmick off Abijit Dey. The easy win sent a signal to the Bengal camp, which had won their last two matches comfortaby.
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