Calcutta: Bengal beat Jharkhand by five wickets in the Vinoo Mankad (under-19) Trophy meet on Saturday. Having bowled out Jharkhand for 231, Bengal sneaked home thanks to Writom Porel’s 90.

In other matches, Orissa beat Assam and Sikkim overcame Tripura.

SUMMARISED SCORES

Jharkhand 231 in 50 ovs (Kamal Gope 58, Sujit Yadav 45; Azaz Ansari 2/42, Nilava Debnath 2/44). Bengal 232/5 in 49.2 ovs (Writom Porel 90, Rohan Banerjee 45, Abhishek Bhowmick 41). Bengal won by 5 wkts

Orissa 225/8 in 50 ovs (Ajaya Rout 67, Salender Ram 50; Krishna Das 3/45, Prasanta Sonowal 2/31, Sanjib Datta 2/48). Assam 186/9 in 50 ovs (Sarupam Purkayastha 65; B. Panda 3/39, Anand Sahoo 2/37). Orissa won by 39 runs

Sikkim 286 in 49.2 ovs (Devendra Singh 94, Sandip Kumar 65; Ram Das 3/76). Tripura 224 in 48.5 ovs (K. Acharya 56; Chonku Lepcha 3/24). Sikkim won by 62 runs.