da jogodeouro： The East Zone Under-22 match between Bengal and Tripura at the PolytechnicGround in Agartala meandered to a draw on the third and final day on Thursday
Natarajan Sriram28-Dec-2000The East Zone Under-22 match between Bengal and Tripura at the PolytechnicGround in Agartala meandered to a draw on the third and final day on Thursday.Bengal took home five points by virtue of the 113-run first innings lead whileTripura had to be content with three.Opting to bat on the first day, Bengal declared at 387 for 9. Opener Arindam Das(177) held the visitors’ innings together. After the early loss of his partnerPrasanta Sinharoy (1), Arindam shared a 126-run second wicket partnership withstumper AA Sikdar (40). The fall of Sikdar triggered a minor collapse, andBengal found themselves losing four more wickets.Subrahdip Ganguly (90) joined Arindam at this juncture and 126 runs for theseventh wicket. Arindam was the eighth batsman to be dismissed caught by Sahaoff R Ghosh. Arindam, who stay at the crease for close to eight hours faced 305balls hit 28 boundaries.In reply, Tripura scored 254 thanks chiefly to some useful contributions by themiddle order. M Gupta (63) was the top scorer. The only significant partnershipin the innings was shared by M Gupta and C Sachdeva (56) for the third wicketwhich was worth 75 runs. Thereafter none of the Tripura batsmen made anysignificant scores. Bengal in their second innings lost three wickets whileputting up 157 on the board. Arindam Das was again the top scorer with a fine60. Bengal managed to receive 48 overs on the final day before stumps were drawnafter the 8th mandatory over with the score 157 for three.