Yet another defeat for Assam one-day team

Sports reporter
GUWAHATI, Feb 21 – Assam suffered third consecutive defeat in the East Zone One-day Cricket Championship for the Vijay Hazare Trophy.

At the Jadavpur University ground, Kolkata today Jharkhand humiliate Assam by 38 runs in the 50-over match.

Piling up a mammoth total of 304 for three in the stipulated 50 overs, Jharkhand restricted Assam to 266 for eight.

Ishank Jaggi was the dangerman for Jharkhand as he cracked 159 off 201 balls with 15 fours and four sixes. SS Tiwary and RK Nemal contributed 64 and 31 respectively which provided adequate support in building the Jharkhand innings.

Today Assam bowlers were made minch meat as apart from Dhiraj Goswami, who claimed two wickets, no other bowler could draw any respect from the opponent batsmen.

Chasing the big total the Assam batsmen hardy were on the target at any moment. Dhiraj again came good with 46-ball 61 cameo off his willow. Captain RR Parida added 53 while Deepak Sharma scored 52. Amit Sinha was the other notable contributor with 33.

Kuldeep Sharma was the wrecker in chief with 4 wicket haul while Keshav Kumar took two wickets. SS Tiwary and SK Roy removed one scalps each.

scorecard

Jharkhand innings: S Ghosh c Sharma b Goswami 10, RK Nemat c Arminder Singh b Roy 31, IR Jaggi not out 159, SS Tiwary c Arminder Singh b Goswami 64, SP Gautham not out 28. Extras (lb 3, w 8, nb 1) 12; Total (3 wickets; 50 overs; 214 mins) 304. Fall of wickets: 1-15, 2-89, 3-214; Bowling: DS Goswami 10-1-56-2, RL Mali 9-1-45-0, K Das 10-0-78-0, A Konwar 10-0-44-0, SA Roy 2-0-14-1, AS Sinha 4- 0-23-0, G Sharma 5-0-41-0.

Assam innings: SS Roy c Ghosh b Kuldeep Sharma 14, Tarjinder Singh lbw b Kuldeep Sharma 8, RR Parida c Ghosh b Kuldeep Sharma 53, Arminder Singh c Ghosh b Kuldeep Sharma 2, G Sharma b Roy 21, Deepak Sharma c & b Keshav Kumar 52, AS Sinha c & b Keshav Kumar 33, DS Goswami st Ghosh b Tiwary 61, A Konwar not out 11, RL Mali not out 1. Extras (b 1, lb 3, w 5, nb 1) 10; Total (8 wickets; 50 overs; 205 mins) 266. Fall of wickets: 1-22, 2-61, 3-63, 4-86, 5-118, 6-178, 7-221, 8-265. Bowling: SS Rao 10-0-44-0, Kuldeep Sharma 9-0-60-4, Santosh Lal 5-0-26-0, Kundan Singh 6-0-38-0, SK Roy 10-1-39-1, Keshav Kumar 9-0-41-2, SS Tiwary 1-0-14-1.