da esoccer bet： Debutatant Arijit Bose’s century and a swashbuckling innings of 128 byskipper Devang Gandhi placed Bengal in a commanding position in theirRanji Trophy tie against Tripura at the Eden Gardens today
da fazobetai： Sakyasen Mittra20-Nov-2000Debutatant Arijit Bose’s century and a swashbuckling innings of 128 byskipper Devang Gandhi placed Bengal in a commanding position in theirRanji Trophy tie against Tripura at the Eden Gardens today. Bengalfinsihed the day at 333 for the loss of three wickets in reply toTripura’s first innings score of 170. The aim of the Bengal team is topile on another 150 runs by lunch tomorrow and then put Tripura intobat again.However, Devang Gandhi played a more cavalier knock, the talk of theday was Bose’s innings. The 22 -year cricketer, who started playingthe game quite late is incidentally the son of the former India openerGopal Bose. Gopal Bose had played a couple of unofficial Tests for thecountry. Arijit, however, is quite different from his father in thesense that he is a left hander. More than the runs he scored it wasthe way he played the innings. The Tripura bowling had nothing reallyto offer. But even then Arijit Bose played with a lot of composure.The hallmark of his innings was the amount of time that he had to playhis shots. His innings of 101 was marked with lovely drives throughthe cover. At times, he showed that he was ready even to hit the ballover the fielders. He finally fell, caught at point by Gourpada Banikof the bowling off medium pacer Rajiv DevBurman. He tried to drive aball away from his body and as a result spooned it to point. But bythen he had scored 101 in 184 balls with 15 fours. After the end ofthe day’s play Bose said, “On Sunday, when I first went down to bat, Idid not feel any pressure. Today however, pressure got to me. As Idesperately wanted to reach three figures.”Gandhi’s innings on the other hand was expected. He has changed hisstance and now does not straighten up as he used to do last year.Against a mediocre Tripura bowling, it was expected that he wouldscore runs. He reached his 100 cutting off-spinner Sujit Roy to thepoint boundary. At the end of the day he was unbeaten on 128 with 16boundaries and three sixes. The last one was the best as he hit ChetanSachdev for huge blow over mid wicket.Rohan Gavaskar however, disappointed. He looked very patchy. Maybe,the slowness of the pitch affected his batting as he has been used tobatting on harder tracks in Mumbai. He holed out at cover after beingbogged down for quite sometime off Sachdev. At the end of the day,Saba karim, was keeping Devang company on 11.
