Bumrah’s spell wrecks Odisha

Gujarat pace bowler fires with a burst of four wickets.

28 also helped Gujarat to go past the 250-run mark as he along with tailender Hardik Patel added another 24 important runs.

For Odisha, veteran pacer Basant Mohanty stood out with five wickets while Behera took three scalps.

In response, Odisha were off to a nightmarish start losing their first wicket with just 1 run on the board, before opener Sandeep Pattnaik (43) and one down Subhranshu Senapati (30) forged a 82run stand for the second wicket to take the team to 83/1.

But thereafter, India pacer Jasprit Bumrah triggered a dramatic collapse of the Odisha side with four wickets to reduce them to 101/7. Kalaria also took two wickets to make things worse for the opposition.

However, the lower order duo of Behera (34 not out) and Suryakant Pradhan (47) took the fight to the Gujarati side with a 72-run eighthwicket stand as Odisha ended the day on 184/8.

Brief Scores: Gujarat 263 (Chirag Gandhi 81, Rush Kalaria 73, Basant Mohant 5/68) vs Odisha 184/8 (Suryakant Pradhan 47, Sandeep Pattnaik 43, Jasprit Bumrah 4/33, Rush Kalaria 2/35)

In Another Match

Riding on opener Tanmay Agarwal’s unbeaten 63, Hyderabad ended the second day at 167/3 to trail by 127 runs in their Ranji Trophy cricket quarter-final tie against Mumbai here on Saturday.

At stumps, Agarwal and middle- order batsman Bavanaka Sandeep (10) were at the crease as veteran all-rounder Abhishek Nayar pulled things back for Mumbai with three wickets at the Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh International Stadium here.

Earlier, resuming the day at 250/5, Mumbai lost their remaining five wickets in only 12 overs and could only add 44 runs to their overnight total.

Middle- order batsman Siddhesh Lad, who was unbeaten on 101 on Friday, could add only 9 runs to his score before falling to pacer Ravi Kiran.

Nayar (59), who was unbeaten on 46 with Lad, started well to bring up his half-century but soon departed after being trapped by medium pacer Chama Milind.

Mumbai’s lower order crumbled under the pressure as Shardul Thakur (10) and Akshay Girap (0) perished cheaply leaving the defending champions at a precarious 290/9. IANS