Patna: Bihar were tottering at 52 for the loss of four wickets in their first innings against Delhi in the Vijay Merchant Trophy match being played at Railway Ground in Vadodara on Tuesday. Earlier, Delhi declared their first innings scoring 520 runs for the loss of only three wickets on the first day.
For Delhi, Sachin hit a magnificent double century (231, 199 balls, 28×4, 7×6) while opening batsman Sarthak slammed a century (128, 104 balls, 24×4, 3×6). Another Delhi lad Pranav remained not out scoring 122 runs with the help of 13 four and five sixes off 120 balls. All the Delhi lads took this match like a one-day match against a very weak Bihar bowling.
In their first innings, Bihar lost three quick wickets for just only 28 runs on the board. The fourth wicket pair showed some semblance of fight but that too could not last long. Bihar lost their fourth wicket on 52 runs on the board. After the fall of the fourth wicket stumps were drawn for the day. Agastya scored 20 runs.
Scoreboard
Delhi first innings: Sarthak Rayb Satyam Kumar 128; Arnav S Bugga (c)c Taufique b Mohit Kumar 7; Sachin c Satyam Kumar b Adarsh Sinha 231; Pranav not out 122; Shrey Sethi (wk) not out 8
Extras ( b 4, lb 0, w 1, nb 1 ): 6
TOTAL: 502/3 (74.0 OVERS)
Yet To Bat: Dhruv Kr Chumbak ,Kirit Kaushik ,Udhav Mohan ,Anindo ,Priyanshu M Chahal ,Laxman
FALL OF WICKETS: 1 – 23 (Arnav S Bugga, 4.3 ov); 2 – 223 (Sarthak Ray, 33.6 ov); 3 – 490 (Sachin, 71.3 ov)
Bowling: Mohit Kumar 10-1-70-1; Sunu Kumar 7-0-47-0; Satyam Kumar 16-0-102-1; Akanshu Rai 17-0-122-0; Asif Ahmad 9-0-78-0; Adarsh Sinha 13-0-60-1; Yash Pratap 2-0-19-0.
Bihar first innings: Yash Pratap (c) c Arnav S Bugga b Laxman 4; Taufique (wk) lbw Udhav Mohan 1; Agastya b Laxman 20; Ayush Anand b Dhruv Kr Chumbak 12; Adarsh Sinha not out 15.
Extras ( b 0, lb 0, w 0, nb 0 ) 0
TOTAL: 52/4 (13.4 OVERS)
Yet To Bat: Krishna Singh ,Akanshu Rai ,Satyam Kumar ,Sunu Kumar ,Asif Ahmad ,Mohit Kumar
FALL OF WICKETS: 1 – 4 (Yash Pratap, 0.5 ov); 2 – 10 (Taufique, 3.6 ov); 3 – 28 (Agastya, 6.3 ov); 4 – 52 (Ayush Anand, 13.4 ov)
Bowling: Laxman 6-1-15-2; Udhav Mohan 6-0-33-1; Kirit Kaushik 1-0-4-0; Dhruv Kr Chumbak 0.4-0-1
