AGENCY
Mumbai: Young opener Bishal Ghosh kept Tripura in the hunt for the crucial first innings lead against Jammu and Kashmir with an unbeaten half-century on day two of their four-day Ranji Trophy Group C game here today.
The 20-year-old batted for more than two sessions and faced 195 balls for his unbeaten 86, laced with 12 fours, to help Tripura finish the day at 193 for 6, still 122 runs behind their rivals’ first innings total of 315 at the BKC ground.
Ghosh is 14 short of his third first-class hundred while the others came a cropper against the J&K bowling. Captain and off-spinner Parvez Rasool led the charge with 2 for 29.
Tripura, who did well in dismissing the last four J&K batsmen for an addition of 45 runs this morning, plunged into trouble once the opening wicket stand of 51 between Ghosh and Udiyan Bose (33 off 55 balls) was broken by medium-pacer Ram Dayal. They lost wickets steadily, with only Ghosh holding fort at one end.
At the close of play, Ghosh was occupying the crease with Gurinder Singh (13).
SCORECARD
Jammu & Kashmir
SP Khajuria c †Patel b Murasingh 00
Umar Nissar c A Dey b Dutta 09
Pranav Gupta b Dutta 55
ID Singh c †Patel b Murasingh 59
Parvez Rasool* c RA Dey b Gurinder Singh 05
AP Singh c †Patel b Dutta 74
P Bisht† c †Patel b Sarkar 33
S Beigh b Sarkar 54
R Dayal b Murasingh 02
Harmeet Singh b Murasingh 02
Z Sofi not out 02
Extras 20
Total 315/10
Tripura 1st innings
BB Ghosh not out 86
UU Bose c †Bisht b Dayal 33
SK Patel† c Harmeet Singh b Sofi 11
NN Sen Chowdhary b Parvez Rasool 19
Yashpal Singh b Beigh 02
A Dey c Umar Nissar b Harmeet Singh 21
RA Dey c Dayal b Parvez Rasool 03
Gurinder Singh not out 13
Extras 05
Total 193/6
