da doce： The East Zone Cooch Behar Trophy match at the Engineering CollegeGround in Cuttack witnessed a high scoring match where Orissa andBihar had to settle for a draw on the third and final day on Sunday
Natarajan Sriram12-Nov-2000The East Zone Cooch Behar Trophy match at the Engineering CollegeGround in Cuttack witnessed a high scoring match where Orissa andBihar had to settle for a draw on the third and final day on Sunday.Orissa took five points due to their first innings lead while Biharhad to be content with three.Opting to bat on the opening day, Orissa ran up a huge 342 with SBiswal (102) helping himself to a fine century. Biswal in the companyof Rakesh Mohanty (94) put on 118 runs for the sixth wicket. Bihar inreply, batted through the second day and were finally all out for 317,giving a slender 25 run lead for Orissa. Amir Hashmi with an unbeaten124 was the top scorer. Orissa in their second innings were reduced to103 with Mihir Diwakar (4 for 16) picking up the lower order wickets.Bihar were set to score 129 for a win in just nine overs. By the timestumps were drawn they had scored 46 runs while losing both theopeners.