As gloomy climate and dangerous gentle performed spoilsport and solely 9 overs might be bowled in 40 minutes of play, Bengal pushed for the essential first-innings lead in its Ranji Trophy Group-B match towards Chhattisgarh on the Eden Gardens right here on Sunday.
With gentle posing hurdles within the resumption of the third day’s play, Bengal declared its first innings at its in a single day whole of 381 for eight and delivered early blows on Chhattisgarh, which was at 27 for 2 at stumps.
With the potential for an outright end result wanting distant after more often than not over two days was misplaced as a consequence of poor gentle, Bengal seemed for 3 factors.
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When play lastly started at 3:34 pm within the ultimate session after a number of rounds of inspection, the house bowlers looked for fast wickets whereas the touring facet’s openers, Ok.D. Eknath and Rishabh Tiwari, batted with optimistic intent and scored off unfastened deliveries.
Suraj Jaiswal supplied the breakthrough within the seventh over as a stable wanting Eknath edged one to Bengal skipper Manoj Tiwary on the first slip.
Off-spinner Karan Lal trapped the left-handed Rishabh lbw within the subsequent over.
Chhattisgarh batters Jivesh Butte and Ashutosh Singh survived some anxious moments in fading gentle earlier than the umpires halted the play once more and finally drew the stumps for the day.
With the weatherman predicting a cloudy and hazy ultimate day, Bengal will try and inflate its factors whereas Chhattisgarh will attempt to not concede a primary innings lead.
Transient Scores:
Bengal — 1st innings: 381 for eight dec. in 128 overs
Chhattisgarh –1st innings: Whole (for 2 wickets in 9 overs) 27 (Jivesh Butte (batting) 0, Ashutosh Singh (batting) 0)