da aviator aposta： A keen battle for the first innings lead highlighted the three dayEast zone Vijay Merchant (under-16) Trophy game between Assam andBihar which concluded at Maligaon on Wednesday
da betcris： 09-Dec-1999A keen battle for the first innings lead highlighted the three dayEast zone Vijay Merchant (under-16) Trophy game between Assam andBihar which concluded at Maligaon on Wednesday. Ultimately the lastpair carried Bihar to a narrow lead of nine runs and first inningspoints.Put in to bat, Assam scored 345, thanks in the main to Souvik Das’108. Coming in at No 7, he helped Assam recover from a bad start (119for five). With Mrigen Talukdar (91 off 108 balls with eleven foursand two sixes) he put on 110 runs for the sixth wicket off 30.3overs. Then with Khanin Saikia (30) he added 106 runs for the eighthwicket. Souvik who was ninth out at 344, batted three hours, faced 138balls and hit nine fours. Ambuj Kumar was the most successful bowlerwith four for 56.Bihar in contrast, made a good start with Manish Vardhan and PrabhatKumar (61) putting on 164 runs for the second wicket off 54overs. Then Manish and Atul Priyanka (27) consolidated the positionwith a third wicket stand of 71 runs off 38.5 overs. Manish Vardhanwho was fourth out for 159, batted 379 minutes, faced 323 balls andhit 22 fours. Bihar however suffered a middle order collapse and from272 for two they slumped to 293 for eight. Sanjeev Rajan (14) andRanjan Kumar Singh (27) then put on 29 runs for the ninth wicket andthen finally Ranjan Kumar Singh and Ambuj Kumar (20) added 32 runs forthe last wicket off 9.5 overs to take Bihar past the Assamtotal. Assam, in their second innings, were 49 for one wicket whenstumps were finally drawn.
