Ranji Trophy Dossier

POINTS TABLE AFTER 10 MATCHES
Teams	Mts	Pts
Orissa	4	29
Assam	4	19
Bengal	4	18
Bihar	4	11
Tripura	4	3
Orissa, Assam and Bengal qualify to the knockout stage

* indicates - toss winner

Match No: 10 (Assam v Orissa)
At TD Sports Association Ground, Guwahati on 4, 5, 6 January, 2001.
Orissa won by 9 wickets. Assam*: 167 (SB Saikia 31, S Zakaria Zuffri 66; SK Satpathy 3-41) & 188 (PK Das 45, S Zakaria Zuffri 46, S Ghosh 36; DS Mohanty 5-39, SS Raul 3-48)
Orissa: 341 (SS Das 54, RR Parida 75, SK Satpathy 41, SS Raul 45, Gautam Gopal 85 not out; S Ganesh Kumar 5-67) & 18-1
Points: Orissa 8 pts, Assam 0 pts

Match No: 9 (Bengal v Bihar)
At Eden Gardens, Calcutta on 3, 4, 5, 6 January, 2001. Match Drawn
Bengal*: 608-5 decl. (NL Haldipur 153, Aa Lahiri 130, DJ Gandhi 71, RS Gavaskar 121 not out, D Dasgupta 89)
Bihar: 323 (Niklesh Ranjan 31, Tariqur Rahman 59, MS Dhoni 114 not out; U Chatterjee 5-60, SS Lahiri 3-45) & 302-3 (Niklesh Ranjan 126 not out, Rajiv Kumar 82, Tariqur Rahman 32, Sunil Kumar 56 not out)
Points: Bengal 5 pts, Bihar 3 pts

Match No: 8 (Bengal v Orissa)
At Eden Gardens, Calcutta on 28, 29, 30, 31 December, 2000.
Orissa won by 129 runs
Orissa*: 256 (SS Raul 118, RR Parida 71; SS Paul 3-64, SC Ganguly 6-46) & P Jaichandra 54, Jaganath Das 44, A Barick 50 not out; SC Ganguly 3-71, U Chatterjee 3-57)
Bengal: 117 (SJ Kalyani 39, DS Mohanty 6-48, A Barick 3-48) & 259 (A Basu 32, SC Ganguly 39, D Dasgupta 39, U Chatterjee 53 not out; DS Mohanty 5-45, P Jaichandra 3-27)
Points: Orissa 8 pts, Bengal 0 pts

Match No: 7 (Assam vs Bihar)
At TD Sports Association Ground, Guwahati on 22, 23, 24 December, 2000.
Assam won by an innings & 10 runs.
Bihar*: 85 (A Hashmi 27; GD Dutta 3-33, Javed Zaman 4-39, Sukhvinder Singh 3-10) & 146 (Tarique Rahman 62; GD Dutta 5-42, Sukhvinder Singh 4-45)
Assam: 241 (Rajesh Borah 33, S Ganesh Kumar 32, Sukhvinder Singh 47; M Diwakar 3-73)
Points:Assam 8 pts, Bihar 0 pts

Match No: 6 (Tripura vs Orissa)
At Maharaja Bir Bikram College Stadium, Agartala on 22, 23, 24 December, 2000.
Orissa won by an innings & 156 runs.
Tripura: 114 (RN Ghosh 24; SK Satpathy 4-25, J Das 3-36) & 108 (C Sachdev 56; DS Mohanty 3-28, J Das 4-28)
Orissa*: 378-4 decl. (SS Das 178, SS Raul 134; T Saha 2-110)
Points: Orissa 8 pts, Tripura 0 pts

Match No: 5 (Tripura vs Assam)
At Maharaja Bir Bikram College Stadium, Agartala on 14, 15, 16 November, 2000.
Assam won by an innings & 92 runs.
Tripura: 116 (S Dasgupta 42; GD Dutta 3-30, Sukhvinder Singh 5-15) & 179 (R Chaudhuri 32, M Gupta 39; Sukhvinder Singh 5-30, S Subramaniam 5-36)
Assam*: 387-8 decl. (SB Saikia 38, S Zakaria Zuffri 50, R Borah 77, S Ganesh Kumar 47, Sukhvinder Singh 68 not out; S Roy 4-84, S Dasgupta 3-104).
Points: Assam 8 pts, Tripura 0 pts

Match No: 4 (Assam vs Bengal)
At North East Frontier Railway Stadium, Guwahati on 26, 27, 28, 29 November, 2000. Match Drawn.
Assam*: 291 (PK Das 68, SB Saikia 34, R Borah 55, S Ganesh Kumar 33, U Chatterjee 3-56, SS Lahiri 4-63) & 292-5 (PK Das 118, SB Sakia 52, SZ Zuffri 82)
Bengal: 383 DJ Gandhi 54, S Kalyani 75, RS Gavaskar 114, SS Karim 44; S Subramanium 5-59)
Points: Bengal 5 pts, Asm 3 pts.

Match No: 3 (Bihar vs Tripura)
At Keenan Stadium, Jamshedpur on 26, 27, 28, 29 November, 2000. Match Drawn.
Tripura: 236 (S Dasgupta 30, M Gupta 61, V Prajapati 38, Rajib Dutta 40 not out, Dhiraj Kumar 3-62, Diwakar 3-61) & 333-7 (S Dasgupta 62S Chowdhuri 47, S Roy 99, C Sachdev 37, GH Banik 32)
Bihar*: 450-6 decl (N Ranjan 110, MS Dhoni 39, T Rehman 83, Rajiv Kumar 80, Sunil Kumar 87; C Sachdev 3-118)
Points: Bihar 5 pts, Tripura 3 pts.

Match No: 2 (Bihar vs Orissa)
At Keenan Stadium, Jamshedpur on 19, 20, 21, 22 November, 2000. Match drawn.
Bihar: 292 (N Ranjan 53, Sunil Kumar 77, MS Dhoni 39; DS Mohanty 3-41, A Barick 3-97) & 214-7 (Rajiv Kumar 33, Sunil Kumar 46, A Hashmi 49)
Orissa*: 478-7 wkts decl (P Das 88, SS Raul 98, RR Parida 90P Jaichandra 101 not out)
Points: Orissa 5 pts, Bihar 3 pts.

Match No: 1 (Bengal vs Tripura)
At Eden Gardens Calcutta on 19, 20, 21, 22 November, 2000.
Bengal won by an innings & 134 runs.
Tripura: 170 (M Gupta 49, U Chatterjee 3-23) & 154 (GH Banik 51, W Majumder 3-30)
Bengal*: 458-4 wkts decl (A Basu 101, Amitava Banerjee 48, DJ Gandhi 206 not out)
Points: Bengal 8 pts, Tripura 0 pts.

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