da bet sport： Avinash Kumar and Vikash Kumar, who did most of the damage in theAssam first innings, again were among the wickets as Bihar won theEast Zone Ranji Trophy match on the fourth and final day at the Keenanstadium in Jamshedpur by 191 runs on Saturday
16-Jan-2000Avinash Kumar and Vikash Kumar, who did most of the damage in theAssam first innings, again were among the wickets as Bihar won theEast Zone Ranji Trophy match on the fourth and final day at the Keenanstadium in Jamshedpur by 191 runs on Saturday.Bihar, 327 in their second innings overnight, were all out for 343with MS Dhoni remaining unbeaten with 68. This left Assam with avictory target of 355. Realistically however the best they could hopeto do was to save the match. But with the steady fall of wickets, acomfortable Bihar victory was soon on the horizon. Opener PK Das (30)and skipper SZ Suffri (18) added 41 runs for the second wicket off sixovers. But there was precious little substance from the middle orderand Assam collapsed to 89 for eight. A complete rout was averted bySukhbinder Singh (54) and O Singh (20) who added 74 runs for the ninthwicket off 26.4 overs. Sukhbinder Singh faced 98 balls and hit six ofthem to the ropes. But the chief honours were shared by Avinash Kumarand Vikash Kumar. The former took six for 43 while the latterfinished with three for 56. This gave Avinash Kumar a match haul often for 117 while Vikash Kumar had match figures of eight for 154.