Date:20/12/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/12/20/stories/2008122056411800.htm

Sport - Cricket

Six-wicket haul for Bandekar

Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI: Two seamers left their mark on the second day of the Bengal-Goa Ranji Trophy Plate semifinals at the Karnail Singh Stadium here on Friday.

Sourabh Bandekar had a six-wicket haul as Bengal, resuming at 257 for five, was all out for 337. And then, Ranadeb Bose claimed all the five wickets that fell in Goa’s innings. Goa finished the day at 95 for five.

Much of the interest around Sourav Ganguly, 69 overnight, ended on the second ball of the day when he edged and perished at the same score.

Bandekar, who played in the under-19 World Cup at Colombo, has improved immensely to emerge the spearhead of the Goan attack. Bose bowled with lot of control on a day when the conditions could have easily tempted him to go flat out.

The scores:

Bengal — 1st innings: A. Majumdar b Bandekar 39, A. Chowdhary b D’Souza 2, W. Saha c Ratra b Bandekar 54, M. Tiwari c Ratra b Bandekar 0, S. Ganguly c A. Desai b Gadekar 69, L.R. Shukla c Ratra b Bandekar 10, D. Chakrabarty c Kamat b Gadekar 82, Ritam Kundu c Kamat b Bandekar 4, S. Sarkar c A. Desai b Ninan 60, A. Dinda b Bandekar 2, R. Bose (not out) 3; Extras (b-2, lb-1, nb-9): 12; Total (in 118.1 overs): 337.

Fall of wickets: 1-5, 2-101, 3-101, 4-105, 5-127, 6-257, 7-263, 8-284, 9-296.

Goa bowling: S. Bandekar 33-9-75-6, R. D’Souza 24-5-70-1, H. Gadekar 27-7-71-2, S. Jakati 15-1-47-0, R. Ninan 19.1-2-71-1.

Goa — 1st innings: Sagun Kamat lbw b Bose 0, S. Asnodkar b Bose 1, A. Katkar c Saha b Bose 9, J. Arun Kumar b Bose 16, Ajay Ratra lbw b Bose 0, Aniket Desai (batting) 43, Ryan Ninan (batting) 20; Extras (lb-5, nb-1): 6, Total (for five wkts. in 31 overs): 95.

Fall of wickets: 1-0, 2-5, 3-27 4-27, 5-34.

Bengal bowling: R. Bose 11-2-33-5, A. Dinda 11-2-29-0, S. Sarkar 5-2-6-0, R. Kundu 2-0-15-0, A. Choudhary 2-0-7-0.