Hyderabad: Bengal defeated hosts Hyderabad by four wickets to pick up four points in their Ranji Trophy Super League Group B match on Friday.

Resuming at 72 for 2, Bengal scored 188 losing four more wickets. Skipper Deep Dasgupta scored an unbeaten 50 to put his team on top of the Group B table with 12 points.

The hosts piled up 309 and dismissed Bengal for 200 in the first innings.

But Bengal bounced back with seamer Ranadeb Bose wrecking Hyderabad with a seven wicket haul and folded them for just 76.

Required to score 186 for an outright win, the visitors lost two wickets for 72 on Thursday and skipper Deep guided the team to a four wicket win just after lunch Friday.

It was Ranadeb who turned the tide in favour of bengal with his match winning performance of seven for just 25 runs.

With victory at sight, Bengal batsmen kept their cool but young Absolem accounted for overnight batsmen Avishek Jhunjhunwala (39) and Manoj Tewari (23) which brought in Deep at the crease.

Sourashish Lahiri (29) gave the skipper good company but was trapped by P.K. Reddy and Laxmi Ratan Shukla (4) followed soon. Deep and the experienced Rohan Gavaskar scored the remaining runs to log four points for Bengal.

For the hosts, MP Arjun and Absolem claimed two wickets apiece and P.K. Reddy and P. Ojha took one wicket each.