Bengal win by 3 wickets

Riding Bablu Goswami’s four wickets and Amit Das’ 55, Bengal defeated Tripura by three wickets in a U-19 Vinoo Mankad Trophy match in Salt Lake on Wednesday.

SUMMARISED SCORES

At JU, Salt Lake: Tripura 181 in 49.2 ovs (Amit Das 55; Bablu Goswami 4/26). Bengal 184/7 in 48.3 ovs (Arnab Nandy 44 n.o., Rohan Banerjee 37). Bengal won by 3 wkts.

At James Long Sarani Ground: Assam 180 in 49.2 ovs (Shahbaz Nadeem 4/23). Jharkhand 182/7 in 42 ovs (Raju Kumar 45). Jharkhand won by 3 wkts.

At Eden Gardens: Orissa 369/7 in 50 ovs (Payas Ranjan Sinha 174, Biplab Samant Ray 88, Milan Sahoo 48; Shakti Lochab 4/88). Sikkim 132 in 49.2 ovs (Gaurav Gupta 51; Alok Sahoo 3/17). Orissa won by 237 runs.

Two-way lead

IM Shanker Roy and Abhisek Das with 5.5 points apiece were in joint lead after the sixth round of the All India Fide rated chess tournament at the Khudiram Anushilan Kendra on Wednesday.

TODAY IN SPORT

CHESS: All Bengal Fide-rated meet at Khudiram Anushilan Kendra from 9.30 am.

SQUASH: Junior nationals at CRC.

TABLE TENNIS: State and inter-district meet.