BHUBANESWAR  13-Oct-2014  76
                                    Impressive bowling performances by Suman Mohanty and Ashutosh Das went  in vain as Odisha suffered a 33-run defeat at the hands of host  Jharkhand in their truncated last league match of the Vinoo Mankad  Trophy East Zone Under-19 Cricket Tournament at JSCA International  Stadium in Ranchi today.
The 50-over-a-side match was reduced to 26  overs due to rain. Put into bat, Jharkhand compiled a healthy total of  181 despite a four-wicket haul by off-spinner Mohanty and a hat-trick by  medium pacer Das, who achieved the feat in the last over of the  innings, dismissing Krishna Patel, Zeesan Ali and Prem Kumar. But the  Odisha duo`s fine bowling efforts were overshadowed by Jharkhand opener  Ishan Kishan, who smashed a 63-ball 88 with the help of 11 boundaries  and three sixes.
In reply, Odisha were restricted to 148 for six.  After opener Biswajit Bhuyan was dismissed for a blob, skipper Ashok  Barik (46 off 44 balls) and wicket-keeper Rajesh Dhuper (38 off 41)  stitched together 77 runs for the second-wicket to put the visitors in a  good position.
But the fall of five wickets for 14 runs left them in  deep trouble as they slumped from 78 for one to 92 for six. Zeesan Ali  turned the table on Odisha, scalping three wickets for 19 runs. Though  Sandeep Patnaik and Rajkishan Patel arrested the slump, putting on 56  runs for the unfinished seventh wicket, their efforts could not deny  Jharkhand the victory and four points.
This was Odisha`s third defeat  in four matches and they completed their league engagements with four  points, which came through a 125-run win over Assam.
SCOREBOARD
JHARKHAND: Ishan  Kishan c Kuanr b Patel 88, Imran Alam b Patel 15, Virat Singh c Pradhan  b Nayak 0, Sumit Kumar c&b S Mohanty 19, Kaushal Singh c Kuanr b S  Mohanty 24, S Mohammed Shahruk c Patel b S Mohanty 21, Anukul Roy lbw S  Mohanty 2, Krishna Patel c Dhuper b A Das 6, Himanshu Singh (not out) 2,  Zeeshan Ali lbw A Das 0, Prem Kumar b A Das 0; Extras (b-1, nb-1, w-2) 4
Total (all out, 25.4 overs) 181
Fall of wickets: 1-53, 2-54, 3-121, 4-127, 5-158, 6-173, 7-173, 8-181, 9-181
Bowling: Debabrata  Pradhan 3-0-16-0, Ashutosh Das 3.4-0-24-3, Subham Nayak 5-0-34-1,  Rajkishan Patel 6-1-44-2, Kaushik Das Manikpuri 3-0-36-0, Suman Mohanty  5-0-26-4.
ODISHA: Biswajit Bhuyan  b Patel 0, Rajesh Dhuper lbw Ali 38, Ashok Barik b Ali 46, Debendra  Kuanr c P Kumar b Ali 5, Suman Mohanty (run out) 0, Debendra Pradhan st S  Kumar b H Singh 1, Sandeep Patnaik (not out) 29, Rajkishan Patel (not  out) 22; Extras (b-2, nb-2, w-3) 7
Total (6 wkts, 26 overs) 148
Fall of wickets: 1-1, 2-78, 3-89, 4-90, 5-92, 6-92
Bowling: Krishna  Patel 6-0-40-1, Prem Kumar 4-0-22-0, Anukul Roy 5-0-25-0, Himanshu  Singh 5-0-31-1, Zeeshan Ali 5-1-19-3, Kaushal Singh 1-0-9-0.
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