da realbet： Agartala: Bihar won their East Zone Ranji Trophy league match againstTripura at the Maharaja Bir Bikram College stadium here yesterday by51 runs to pick up the maximum eight points
16-Nov-1999Agartala: Bihar won their East Zone Ranji Trophy league match againstTripura at the Maharaja Bir Bikram College stadium here yesterday by51 runs to pick up the maximum eight points.Set 234 for victory, Tripura was bowled out for 182 in 78.3 overs onthe last day. Resuming at 29-0 Tripura seemed to have the match undercontrol at 108-2 with A Vilaskar (58) and V.Prajapati (22) putting on62 runs for the third wicket in 23.3 overs. But they lost their lasteight wickets for 74 runs. The men who did the damage for Bihar wereleft-arm spinners Avinash Kumar and Prasad Rao who bagged five wicketseach for 47 and 65 runs respectively.Tripura now goes on to play Bengal while Bihar next plays Orissa, bothmatches starting on November 22.