Showing posts with label Souvik. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Souvik. Show all posts

Saturday, December 22, 2007

Twenty20 Cricket

GCCC ‘A’ in Bud Cricket semi-finals:

Guwahati, Dec 21: GCCC ‘A’ entered the semi-finals of the First Bud Challenge Twenty20 cricket tournament for Dhireswar Kalita Cup, defeating River Rine by a huge margin of 122 runs in the group league match at Nehru Stadium on Friday.

GCCC ‘A’ electing to bat first, scored 172 runs for seven. Palashjyoti Das (27) was the top scorer while Debabrata Roy and Souvik Das scored 26 runs each.

Jintu Das, Vicky Rajjak and Sanjoy Das bagged two wickets each. River Rine Club struggled from the very beginning of their innings and was bowled out for 50 runs.

Debabrata Roy was the star of the day bagging four wickets for 14 runs. He got good support from Mrigen Talukdar who claimed three for just six runs.

In the other match of the day, Bud Cricket Club ‘A’ defeated Ankurjyoti Club by 47 runs.
Bud Cricket Club ‘A’ batting first, scored 162 runs while seven wickets with a fine half century from Situ Das (50).

Mukut Kalita and Sadiq Imran Choudhury contributed 19 runs each in the innings. Robin Das was the most successful bowler for Ankurjyoti by bagging three wickets for 22 runs.

In reply, Ankurjyoti Club was bowled out for 115 runs, thanks to some magnificent bowling from Mukut Kalita who bagged four wickets giving away just six runs.

Sukumar Barman (30) was the highest scorer for Ankurjyoti Club.

Source: The Sentinel

Saturday, December 8, 2007

Ranji Trophy Plate Group A Match

Assam vs Tripura:

Guwahati, Dec. 7: Host Assam’s morale is running high after registering back-to-back wins against Kerala in Silchar and Services during the last two weeks.

The team will now look for an outright win against Tripura to be invincible in second place in the group tally with 16 points.

Tripura, however, will be no pushovers, after registering a four-wicket win against Kerala in Agartala this week.

The crucial Ranji Trophy Plate Group A four-day league match will be held at Nehru Stadium in Guwahati from Sunday.

Assam has 11 points and Tripura eight from four matches each.

Assam need only three points by virtue of a first innings lead from a drawn encounter to seal their berth in the knockouts.

Gujarat lead the group A tally with 22 points from four matches and meet Kerala -- with eight points -- in Ahmedabad from Sunday.

Orissa eliminated Assam in the semifinals last year at Barabati Stadium in Cuttack.

Assam have flown in Bangalore professional left arm spinner Anand Katti to replace Tamil Nadu recruit all-rounder S. Suresh in the match. Suresh had injured his finger in the last match against Services. The Assam Cricket Association will name the state squad for the match tomorrow.

Sources said barring Katti replacing Suresh, there would hardly be any change in the winning combination. The playing XI will have Krishna Das and Mrigen Talukdar as medium pacers and Katti and Arlen Konwar as the spinners. Katti’s inclusion will reinforce the spin attack. “Arlen Konwar will now be able to bowl without pressure, with Katti as a back-up,” said team manager Umananda Bora.

With Suresh out of the squad, either Saurav Bhagawati or Souvik Das will make the cut as a top order batsman and the fifth bowler for the team will be either Bichitra Baruah or Dhiraj Goswami. Tripura, on the other hand, have a promising batting line-up comprising Timir Chanda, Kishore Muhuri, Rajib Dutta, Rajesh Banik and Subal Chowdhury, who would definitely look forward to the batting track of the Nehru Stadium wicket with a fast outfield for some handsome scores.

The toss will once again play a vital role even after the Assam team management has, this time, impressed upon the ground committee to prepare a sporty track after surviving a scare on a purely batting track in the earlier match against Services.

Posted on: The Telegraph

Saturday, November 24, 2007

Ranji Trophy Plate League: Group A

Asom crawl back after batting slump:

Nov 23: Asom fought back strongly after being bowled out by Kerala for 198 runs in their first innings on the first day of the Ranji Trophy Plate Group tie which got under way at the Satindra Mohan Dev Stadium in Silchar today.

Kerala were tottering at 23 for five when the stumps were drawn for the day.

The way the wicket was behaving, as 15 wickets had gone down on the first day of the match, a result is expected. Whoever lakes a lead in the first innings should be in the driver’s seat.

Asom, which won the toss this morning, elected to bat first. But the start was not good for the home side as Souvik Das walked back to the pavilion before Asom was yet to open its account.

The damage was somewhat repaired by S Suresh and Palash Das by adding 70 runs for the second wicket. But once the partnership was broken, wickets started falling like a pack of cards.

Suresh was the top scorer for the side with 57 runs. The other notable contributors were Palashjyoti Das (23), Sadagopan Ramesh (27) and Rajdeep Das (30).

Tinu Yohannan and S Nair bagged three wickets each for Kerala.

It was Dhiraj Goswami who led Asom’s fight-back bagging three wickets for just five runs.

Source: The Sentinel