Batting		R	B	M	4s	6s	SR
Abhimanyu Easwaran	c †Rawat b Sharma	65	191	262	10	0	34.03
Arindam Das	b Anureet Singh	2	7	12	0	0	28.57
Subhomoy Das	b Anureet Singh	0	1	1	0	0	0.00
Sudip Chatterjee	c †Rawat b Anureet Singh	96	176	264	14	0	54.54
Wriddhiman Saha †	c Kartik b Upadhyay	87	165	187	11	1	52.72
Laxmi Shukla (c)	c †Rawat b Kartik	17	21	21	3	0	80.95
Writtick Chatterjee	c †Rawat b Anureet Singh	0	3	4	0	0	0.00
Saurasish Lahiri	c Shukla b Kartik	2	12	15	0	0	16.66
Sourav Sarkar	run out (sub [Ashish Yadav])	4	4	30	1	0	100.00
Ashok Dinda	b Mali	17	16	52	4	0	106.25
Shib Paul	not out	14	19	43	3	0	73.68
Extras	(b 4, lb 3, nb 4, w 2)	13
Total	101.5 Ov (RR: 3.11, 450 Mins)	317
Fall of wickets: 1-3 (Arindam Das, 2.5 ov), 2-3 (Subhomoy Das, 2.6 ov), 3-166 (Abhimanyu Easwaran, 59.5 ov), 4-190 (Sudip Chatterjee, 64.3 ov), 5-211 (Laxmi Shukla, 69.6 ov), 6-212 (Writtick Chatterjee, 70.4 ov), 7-217 (Saurasish Lahiri, 73.6 ov), 8-233 (Sourav Sarkar, 80.5 ov), 9-279 (Ashok Dinda, 92.6 ov), 10-317 (Wriddhiman Saha, 101.5 ov)

Bowling	O	M	R	W	ECON	0s	4s	6s	WD	NB
Anureet Singh	32.2	6	88	4	2.72	-	-	-	1	1
Krishnakant Upadhyay	23.5	6	70	1	2.93	-	-	-	0	2
Ranjeet Mali	14	4	57	1	4.07	-	-	-	1	1
Karn Sharma	13.4	4	37	1	2.70	-	-	-	0	0
Murali Kartik	18	3	58	2	3.22	-	-	-	0	0

Railways 1st Innings

Batting		R	B	M	4s	6s	SR
Shivakant Shukla	lbw b Paul	6	49	65	1	0	12.24
Amit Paunikar	b Dinda	12	7	15	3	0	171.42
Nitin Bhille	c †Saha b Dinda	20	41	79	4	0	48.78
Rongsen Jonathan	c Easwaran b Paul	0	15	24	0	0	0.00
Arindam Ghosh	lbw b Dinda	97	214	323	13	0	45.32
Karn Sharma	c †Saha b Dinda	4	4	8	1	0	100.00
Mahesh Rawat †	c †Saha b Paul	119	144	253	20	1	82.63
Murali Kartik (c)	c †Saha b Sarkar	23	31	37	2	1	74.19
Anureet Singh	not out	18	33	56	1	0	54.54
Krishnakant Upadhyay	b Dinda	2	12	18	0	0	16.66
Ranjeet Mali	c & b Dinda	4	11	20	0	0	36.36
Extras	(lb 8, w 1)	9
Total	93.3 Ov (RR: 3.35, 454 Mins)	314
Fall of wickets: 1-13 (Amit Paunikar, 2.6 ov), 2-28 (Shivakant Shukla, 12.4 ov), 3-38 (Rongsen Jonathan, 18.1 ov), 4-38 (Nitin Bhille, 19.3 ov), 5-42 (Karn Sharma, 21.1 ov), 6-260 (Mahesh Rawat, 75.2 ov), 7-285 (Murali Kartik, 82.6 ov), 8-296 (Arindam Ghosh, 85.6 ov), 9-307 (Krishnakant Upadhyay, 89.6 ov), 10-314 (Ranjeet Mali, 93.3 ov)

Bowling	O	M	R	W	ECON	0s	4s	6s	WD
Ashok Dinda	28.3	5	105	6	3.68	-	-	-	0
Sourav Sarkar	24	6	83	1	3.45	-	-	-	0
Laxmi Shukla	13	2	36	0	2.76	-	-	-	0
Shib Paul	21	7	47	3	2.23	-	-	-	1
Saurasish Lahiri	3	0	19	0	6.33	-	-	-	0
Writtick Chatterjee	4	0	16	0	4.00	-	-	-	0

Bengal 2nd Innings

Batting		R	B	M	4s	6s	SR
Abhimanyu Easwaran	b Anureet Singh	0	16	18	0	0	0.00
Arindam Das	c †Rawat b Upadhyay	5	20	36	1	0	25.00
Subhomoy Das	b Anureet Singh	19	62	100	4	0	30.64
Sudip Chatterjee	c Paunikar b Anureet Singh	8	26	59	2	0	30.76
Wriddhiman Saha †	b Sharma	81	200	271	11	0	40.50
Laxmi Shukla (c)	c Bhille b Upadhyay	76	89	147	11	1	85.39
Writtick Chatterjee	lbw b Sharma	10	57	82	0	0	17.54
Saurasish Lahiri	b Kartik	9	23	26	1	0	39.13
Sourav Sarkar	b Anureet Singh	14	27	38	3	0	51.85
Ashok Dinda	not out	27	24	40	1	3	112.50
Shib Paul	c Bhille b Anureet Singh	6	7	10	1	0	85.71
Extras	(b 4, nb 7, w 1)	12
Total	90.4 Ov (RR: 2.94, 418 Mins)	267
Fall of wickets: 1-4 (Abhimanyu Easwaran, 4.4 ov), 2-7 (Arindam Das, 7.6 ov), 3-24 (Sudip Chatterjee, 18.1 ov), 4-36 (Subhomoy Das, 22.5 ov), 5-150 (Laxmi Shukla, 53.6 ov), 6-197 (Writtick Chatterjee, 73.6 ov), 7-214 (Wriddhiman Saha, 79.5 ov), 8-218 (Saurasish Lahiri, 82.1 ov), 9-255 (Sourav Sarkar, 88.2 ov), 10-267 (Shib Paul, 90.4 ov)

Bowling	O	M	R	W	ECON	0s	4s	6s	WD	NB
Anureet Singh	25.4	7	72	5	2.80	-	-	-	1	2
Krishnakant Upadhyay	25	8	62	2	2.48	-	-	-	0	4
Ranjeet Mali	18	6	57	0	3.16	-	-	-	0	1
Karn Sharma	15	2	45	2	3.00	-	-	-	0	0
Murali Kartik	7	1	27	1	3.85	-	-	-	0	0

Railways 2nd Innings (T: 271 runs)

Batting		R	B	M	4s	6s	SR
Amit Paunikar	run out (Sarkar)	41	101	164	6	0	40.59
Murali Kartik (c)	lbw b Shukla	56	102	151	4	3	54.90
Nitin Bhille	lbw b Dinda	5	58	-	0	0	8.62
Shivakant Shukla	b Dinda	0	3	3	0	0	0.00
Arindam Ghosh	c †Saha b Paul	50	107	-	8	0	46.72
Mahesh Rawat †	b Shukla	14	28	-	2	0	50.00
Karn Sharma	c sub (AA Nandi) b Paul	17	29	-	2	0	58.62
Rongsen Jonathan	c WB Chatterjee b Shukla	9	14	-	2	0	64.28
Anureet Singh	not out	17	48	-	2	0	35.41
Krishnakant Upadhyay	c Das b Sarkar	8	11	-	1	0	72.72
Ranjeet Mali	b Sarkar	0	1	-	0	0	0.00
Extras	(lb 4, nb 1)	5
Total	83.3 Ov (RR: 2.65)	222
Fall of wickets: 1-100 (Murali Kartik, 32.4 ov), 2-103 (Amit Paunikar, 34.5 ov), 3-103 (Shivakant Shukla, 35.3 ov), 4-135 (Nitin Bhille, 52.1 ov), 5-169 (Mahesh Rawat, 64.6 ov), 6-179 (Arindam Ghosh, 67.5 ov), 7-190 (Rongsen Jonathan, 70.6 ov), 8-210 (Karn Sharma, 77.6 ov), 9-222 (Krishnakant Upadhyay, 83.2 ov), 10-222 (Ranjeet Mali, 83.3 ov)

Bowling	O	M	R	W	ECON	0s	4s	6s	NB
Ashok Dinda	27	8	77	2	2.85	-	-	-	0
Sourav Sarkar	12.3	2	22	2	1.76	-	-	-	0
Shib Paul	24	7	47	2	1.95	-	-	-	0
Saurasish Lahiri	5	0	27	0	5.40	-	-	-	1
Laxmi Shukla	15	2	45	3	3.00	-	-	-	0

Close of Play

Wed, 08 Jan - day 1 - Bengal 1st innings 274/8 (Wriddhiman Saha 60*, Ashok Dinda 17*, 90 ov)

Thu, 09 Jan - day 2 - Railways 1st innings 233/5 (Arindam Ghosh 78*, Mahesh Rawat 105*, 68 ov)

Fri, 10 Jan - day 3 - Bengal 2nd innings 133/4 (Wriddhiman Saha 30*, Laxmi Shukla 61*, 51 ov)

Sat, 11 Jan - day 4 - Railways 2nd innings 117/3 (Nitin Bhille 1*, Arindam Ghosh 14*, 43 ov)

Sun, 12 Jan - day 5 - Railways 2nd innings 222 (83.3 ov) - end of match

Match Details

Eden Gardens, Kolkata
Toss	Railways, elected to field first
Series	Ranji Trophy
Season	2013/14
Series result	Bengal advanced
Hours of play (local time)	09.30 start, Lunch 12.00-12.40, Tea 14.40-15.00, Close 16.30
Match days	8,9,10,11,12 January 2014 - day (5-day match)
Umpires	Pashchim Pathak Suresh Shastri
Match Referee	Rajendra Jadeja

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Railways Innings

Player Name	O	M	R	W	Econ
AB Dinda	27	8	77	2	2.85
SS Sarkar	12.3	2	22	2	1.76
SS Paul	24	7	47	2	1.95
SS Lahiri	5	0	27	0	5.4 (1 nb)
LR Shukla	15	2	45	3	3

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Group A

Team	M	W	L	D	PT	Quotient
KNTKA	8	5	0	3	38	1.355
PNJB	8	4	2	2	30	1.156
MUM	8	4	1	3	29	1.144
GUJ	8	2	1	5	26	1.214
DELHI	8	2	2	3	19	1.182
ODSA	8	1	3	4	12	0.730
VIDAR	8	1	3	4	12	0.699
HRYNA	8	1	5	2	10	0.950
JHK	8	0	3	4	9	0.759

Group B

Team	M	W	L	D	PT	Quotient
RLYS	8	3	0	5	28	1.186
UP	8	2	1	5	24	1.130
BENG	8	2	0	5	24	1.037
SAU	8	2	1	5	22	1.333
BRODA	8	3	4	0	20	0.985
RAJ	8	2	2	4	20	0.947
TN	8	1	1	6	18	1.144
MP	8	0	2	6	12	0.895
SVCS	8	0	4	4	6	0.619

Group C

Team	M	W	L	D	PT	Quotient
MAHA	8	4	0	4	35	1.684
J + K	8	4	2	2	28	1.006
GOA	8	4	1	3	28	1.005
HP	8	3	3	2	24	1.164
KER	8	2	2	4	22	0.949
HYD	8	1	0	7	19	1.089
AP	8	1	2	5	14	1.029
ASSAM	8	1	4	3	14	0.805
TPURA	8	0	6	2	2	0.573