da winzada777： Half centuries from Parag Das and Rajesh Bora helped Assam to a useful272/9 on the opening day of their East Zone Ranji Trophy clash againstBengal at Maligaon
Sankhya Krishnan26-Nov-2000Half centuries from Parag Das and Rajesh Bora helped Assam to a useful272/9 on the opening day of their East Zone Ranji Trophy clash againstBengal at Maligaon. Assam are playing their first match while Bengal arefresh from an innings victory over Tripura last week.Assam skipper Zakaria Zuffri won the toss and elected to take strike. Theright-left opening combination of Parag Das and Subhrajit Saikiaestablished an early dominance by piling on 127 first up. Bengal howeverregained the initiative by grabbing four wickets in the space of 13 runs.Off spinner Saurashish Lahiri, a trainee at the National Cricket Academy,collected three of those scalps while veteran left arm spinner UtpalChatterjee chipped in by removing Das for 68 (147 balls, 13 fours), whichturned out to be the topscore for Assam.Rajesh Bora resurrected the innings with a brisk 55 (73 balls, 6 fours, 2sixes) and built two useful partnerships in the middle order to help Assamto 257/5. Another collapse followed as four wickets tumbled for 15 beforestumps were drawn three overs early due to bad light. The last wicket pairof Sunil Subramaniam and Javed Zaman will resume battle on Monday. Lahirifinished with 4/65 while Chatterjee returned figures of 3/50.