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Big win for East Zone
By Our Special Correspondent

KOLKATA, MARCH 22. Mark Julian Vernon Ingty made a memorable Duleep Trophy debut by sending Central Zone crashing to a 141-run defeat against East at the Eden Gardens here on Friday.

Playing his second first-class season, the 25-year-old Shillong-born right-arm medium pacer from Assam captured four central top-order batsmen in a sustained spell of nine overs conceding just 29 runs.

Thereafter, Bengal's veteran left-arm spinner Utpal Chatterjee, medium pacer Laxmi Ratan Shukla and off-spinner Sourashish Lahiri cleaned up the rest to give East a comfortable win in the first encounter of the premier championship. It was central's second successive loss, the first coming at the hands of West at Rajkot.

Chasing a victory target of 263 in 49 overs, Central took up the challenge in right earnest. Two quick dismissals of two Yadavs - Jyoti and Jai Prakash - should have forced Central to opt for safety first tactics. It was not to be.

First innings centurion Yere Goud and Rahul Kanwat played reckless shots to fall to Ingty to plunge Central further into a hole. Shukla then had Rohit Jhalani and a well settled Gagan Khoda, the former falling to a defensive shot and the latter driving uppishly to point. By now the writing was clear on the wall. Only Harvinder Singh (21 not out) and Narendra Hirwani (20) fought back but it was too late.

Century by R.R. Parida

Earlier, East, resuming with the overnight score of 102 for two, was lifted to 211 all out by a terrific century by Reshmi Ranjan Parida. His 127 (274m, 197b, 18x4) was the foundation on which the victory was built. If it was Harvinder who gave Central the breakthrough this morning removing Sanjay Raul for 37, off-spinner Kulamani Parida extracted prodigious turn to bore through the East innings with a haul of six for 39 in 21.1 over. East would next meet North at New Delhi beginning March 26. The team would see three changes from the one that won today. National callup to Deep Dasgupta and Shiv Sundar Das enabled Devang Gandhi of Bengal and Parag Das of Assam to take up the vacant opening slots. Paceman Ajay Barik was dropped and his Orissa statemate P. Jayachandra was taken in. The rest of the team members kept their places with Sanjay Raul at the helm.

lThe scores: East Zone - 1st innings: 365.

Central Zone - 1st innings: 314.

East Zone - 2nd innings: Shiv Sundar Das b Singh 6, Deep Dasgupta lbw b Singh 8, Reshmi Ranjan Parida lbw b K. Parida 127, Sanjay Raul c Jhalani b Singh 37, Prabhanjan Mallick c Goud b Parida 13, Subhomoy Das c sub (S. Khare) b Parida 1, Laxmi Ratan Shukla lbw b J.P. Yadav 0, Utpal Chatterjee b Parida 6, Sourashish Lahiri c Pandey b Parida 1, Mark Ingty lbw b Parida 0, Ajay Barik (not out) 0. Extras (b-4, lb-3, nb-5): 12. Total (all out in 68.1 over): 211.

Fall of wickets: 1-8, 2-29, 3-117, 4- 140, 5-158, 6-163, 7-190, 8-196, 9-200.

Central bowling: Pandey 11-1-54-0, Singh 21-4-77-3, J.P.Yadav 10-2-24-1, Parida 21.1-7-39-6, Hirwani 4-0-6-0, Kanwat 1-0-4-0.

Central - 2nd innings: Jyoti Yadav c Dasgupta b Ingty 11, Gagan Khoda c Chatterjee b Shukla 39, Jai Prakash Yadav c Shukla b Ingty 1, Yere Gaud c Raul b Ingty 1, Rahul Kanwat c Dasgupta b Ingty 6, Rohit Jhalani c Dasgupta b Shukla 8, Raja Ali c Mallick b Chatterjee 10, Harvinder Singh (not out) 21, Kulamani Parida c R.R. Parida b Chatterjee 0, Sanjay Pandey c Subhomoy Das b Lahiri 1, N. Hirwani c R.R. Parida b Chatterjee 20. Extras (lb-1, nb-1, w-1) 3. Total (all out in 35.4 overs) 121.

Fall of wickets: 1-23, 2-37, 3-46, 4-56, 5-68, 6-73, 7-91, 8-91, 9-92.

East bowling: Ingty 9-1-29-4, Barik 3-0- 19-0, Shukla 11-2-24-2, Chatterjee 9.4-2-32-3, Lahiri 3-1-16-1.

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