Assam reply strongly against Jharkhand

At the end on the second day of the four-day match against Jharkhand, Assam were 143 for one in reply to the visitors’ 261 in their first innings. Dheeraj Jadhav and Sib Sankar Roy were at the crease with 49 and 9 respectively.

Jharkhand resumed their innings at the overnight total of 160 for four and lost their remaining six wickets for 101 runs in 32.5 overs. Leggie Sairaj Bahutule was the star performer forAssam today with a five-wicket haul while Dhiraj Goswami and Sujay Tarafdar took two wickets each. Abu Naschim Ahmed was the other wicket taker. Among the Jharkhand lower order, ShahbazNadeem showed some courage and he added 38 valuable runs for the ninth wicket with Samar Quadri. The last pair frustrated the Assam bowlers for 39 minutes. Finally, Bahutule managed to trap Nadeem leg before at his individual score of 33.

Assam began their first innings on a positive note as both Parvez and Dheeraj Jadhav stood tall at the middle. While Parvez was quite aggressive against the Jharkhand medium pacers, Dhiraj tried to control theinnings with a cautious note. Parvez struck 11 fours and three towering sixers in his 152-ball innings which can be termed as a classic one.

SCORECARD

Jharkhand 1st innings : SR Sinha c Ahmed b Bahutule 89, MS Vardhan c Saikia b Tarafdar 5, IR Jaggi lbw b Bahutule 5, SS Tiwary c Saikia b Ahmed 35, SP Gautam c Saikia b Tarafdar 18, Sunny Gupta c Goswami b Bahutule 15, SNadeem lbw b Bahutule 33, Kuldeep Sharma c Saikia b Goswami 5, VR Aaron c Saikia b Goswami 2, SS Quadri not out 12. Extras: (b 2, lb 6, w 3) 11. Total : (all out; 120.5 overs) 261. Fall of wickets: 1-8, 2-21, 3-101, 4-157, 5-186, 6-204, 7-204, 8-219, 9-223, 10-261. Bowling: AN Ahmed 23-6-65-1, S Tarafdar 18-7-32-2, SV Bahutule 23.5-8-53-5, A Konwar 33-8-40-0, DS Goswami 23-4-63-2.Assam 1st innings: DS Jadhav not out 49, P Aziz b Nadeem 85, SA Roy not out 9. Extras: (lb 2, w 1, nb 1) 4. Total: (1 wicket; 54 overs) 147. Fall of wickets: 1-128. Bowling: Kuldeep Sharma 5-1-17-0, VR Aaron 5-2-15-0, Sunny Gupta 14-3-36-0, SNadeem 20-4-48-1, Quadri 10-2-29-0.