Ranji Trophy Plate Group match

Defeat stares Tripura against Gujarat:

Nov 17: Tripura were in a precarious position to avoid an innings defeat against Gujarat at the close of third day's play in four-day Plate Division Ranji Trophy match at the Sardar Patel Gujarat Stadium at Motera, near Ahmedabad, today.

Tripura ended the day at 154 for four and they need another 200 runs to ask Gujarat to bat for a second time or the visitors will have to play the whole day tomorrow to avoid an innings defeat after conceding 354-run first innings lead to the hosts who declared at 470 for six earlier in the day.

The visitors' opening pair of Manoj Singh (73) and Subrajit Roy (24) made a good start with 68 runs for the first wicket before Roy was caught by Popat off the bowling of Ashok Makda. In his individual score of 24, Subrajit faced 71 balls and had three boundaries to his credit.
Before stumps were drawn, Tripura lost three more wickets -- Manoj (73), S D Chowdhury (16) and R Banik (22).
Earlier in the day, Gujarat's overnight unbeaten pair of B D Thakre and Timil Patel, who had individual scores of 102 and one respectively, resumed from 380 for five to addanother 49 runs between them before Timil was caught by Chanda off Saha.
Gujarat captain Parthiv Patel called back his boys as soon as Thakre crossed 150 with team's total reading 470 runs for the loss of six wickets, thus asking Tripura to take their second essay with a massive deficit of 354 runs in the first innings.
An outright victory will fetch Gujarat five points while an innings or ten-wicket win will give them another extra point.
In case of a draw, Gujarat will get three points on the basis of the first innings lead, while Tripura will get one.

Brief Scorecard:
Tripura 1st innings: 116 all out in 56.4 overs (Manoj Singh 33; Timil Patel 5/15, MB Parmar 3/37)
Gujarat 1st innings: 470 for six declared (Parthiv Patel 158, BD Thaker not out 154, Niraj Patel 42, DM Popat 40; TS Saha 3/137, TK Chanda 2/82)
Tripura 2nd innings: 154/4 (Manoj Singh 73)