da 888casino: Calcutta: A fine show by the Assam tailenders featured the second dayof the East Zone Ranji Trophy league tie against Bengal here onSaturday
14-Nov-1999Calcutta: A fine show by the Assam tailenders featured the second dayof the East Zone Ranji Trophy league tie against Bengal here onSaturday.Resuming at 225 for six, Assam did well to post a challenging total of347. The overnight not out batsmen SR Das (39) and R Bora (38) tookthe score to 264 before the former was out. Then Bora and SukhwinderSingh (24) added 33 runs for the eighth wicket. And finally Dutta (34not out) and Zaman (4), the last two batsmen put on 42 runs off 16overs. Bengal skipper U Chatterjee was the most successful bowlertaking five wickets for 54 off 33.5 overs.When Bengal batted, Nikhil Haldipur (33) and DD Gupta (22) gave them agood start and then Rohan Gavaskar (42 not out) and S Kalyani (28 notout) carried on the good work as Bengal finished with 137 for two off42.1 overs at stumps. Sukhwinder Singh took both the Bengal wicketsfor 32 runs.