Bengal and Andhra realised there wouldn’t be an outright end result and determined to shake fingers as their Group B Ranji Trophy 2023-24 Spherical 1 fixture resulted in a draw on the Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy ACA VDCA Cricket Stadium in Visakhapatnam on Monday.
The match ended at Tea break on day 4 with Bengal’s rating at 82 for one, 46 runs forward of Andhra. Nevertheless it was the house crew that finally bought three factors after securing a 36-run lead within the first innings. Bengal bought one level.
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With 70 runs adrift of Bengal’s first-innings rating with 4 wickets in hand, in a single day Andhra batters – Ricky Bhui and Shoaib Khan – started the day with the intention of going previous Bengal’s 409.
Bhui paddle swept the ball, reached his 150, and gave Andhra the lead – all off the identical supply. As soon as the lead was secured, the batters started to change gears and, in that course of, Shoaib, who hit the ball straight to mid-off, perished.
Bengal then struck with the third new ball. All Bhui needed to do was to go for his photographs, and he ended up getting a thick exterior edge straight to short-third and was out on 175, thus ending Andhra’s innings at 445.
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Within the second essay, Bengal’s batters made merry of the flat circumstances on supply. Although Andhra did create some issues with the brand new ball, there was no bother for the batters because the ball bought previous.
Shoaib offered a breakthrough as Sourav Paul – who scored 96 within the first innings – mistimed his sweep straight to the fine-leg fielder.
BRIEF SCORES
Bengal 409 & 82/1 (Anustup Majumdar 125, Sourav Paul 96, Abishek Porel 70; Lalith Mohan 4/134) vs Andhra 445 (Ricky Bhui 175, H Vihari 51, Mohammad Kaif 3/62).
RESULT
Match Drawn | Andhra took first innings lead