Batting		R	B	M	4s	6s	SR
Nikhil Haldipur	c †Naidu b Ganesh	19	22	25	3	0	86.36
Alokendu Lahiri	b Joshi	29	87	134	4	0	33.33
Devang Gandhi	c †Naidu b Prasad	5	15	15	1	0	33.33
Rohan Gavaskar	c Arunkumar b Prasad	44	80	87	6	0	55.00
Saba Karim †	not out	129	216	305	19	0	59.72
Charanjit Singh	c Arunkumar b Vadeyaraj	36	127	152	4	0	28.34
Utpal Chatterjee (c)	c Arunkumar b Ganesh	25	77	100	4	0	32.46
Laxmi Shukla	lbw b Ganesh	0	2	6	0	0	0.00
Vishal Singh Yadav	lbw b Prasad	1	15	15	0	0	6.66
Saurasish Lahiri	lbw b Joshi	2	11	11	0	0	18.18
Abdul Masood	c †Naidu b Prasad	0	14	11	0	0	0.00
Extras	(b 11, lb 5, nb 10)	26
Total	109.2 Ov (RR: 2.89, 435 Mins)	316
Fall of wickets: 1-30 (Nikhil Haldipur, 5.3 ov), 2-38 (Devang Gandhi, 8.6 ov), 3-109 (Rohan Gavaskar, 32.2 ov), 4-109 (Alokendu Lahiri, 33.3 ov), 5-224 (Charanjit Singh, 75.1 ov), 6-292 (Utpal Chatterjee, 97.5 ov), 7-292 (Laxmi Shukla, 99.1 ov), 8-300 (Vishal Singh Yadav, 103.2 ov), 9-311 (Saurasish Lahiri, 106.1 ov), 10-316 (Abdul Masood, 109.2 ov)

Bowling	O	M	R	W	ECON	0s	4s	6s	NB
Venkatesh Prasad	26.2	7	62	4	2.35	-	-	-	0
Dodda Ganesh	27	9	62	3	2.29	-	-	-	6
Balachandra Akhil	11	3	37	0	3.36	-	-	-	4
Sunil Joshi	30	5	73	2	2.43	-	-	-	0
Santosh Vadeyaraj	12	2	51	1	4.25	-	-	-	0
Anantharam Vijay	3	0	15	0	5.00	-	-	-	0

Karnataka 1st Innings

Batting		R	B	M	4s	6s	SR
Jagadeesh Arunkumar	lbw b Shukla	0	5	6	0	0	0.00
Mithun Beerala	c Charanjit Singh b Chatterjee	35	107	147	4	0	32.71
Barrington Rowland	c Haldipur b Chatterjee	53	235	308	4	0	22.55
Thilak Naidu †	c †Karim b Chatterjee	9	34	42	1	0	26.47
Anantharam Vijay	c Yadav b Gandhi	39	173	178	6	0	22.54
Nagaraj Ramesh	c Haldipur b Chatterjee	6	48	63	0	0	12.50
Sunil Joshi (c)	lbw b Chatterjee	34	57	85	2	1	59.64
Balachandra Akhil	b Masood	11	27	42	2	0	40.74
Dodda Ganesh	c Haldipur b Yadav	31	81	103	1	1	38.27
Venkatesh Prasad	b Chatterjee	37	63	87	3	1	58.73
Santosh Vadeyaraj	not out	1	13	16	0	0	7.69
Extras	(lb 4, nb 8)	12
Total	139.1 Ov (RR: 1.92, 544 Mins)	268
Fall of wickets: 1-0 (Jagadeesh Arunkumar, 0.5 ov), 2-59 (Mithun Beerala, 33.2 ov), 3-80 (Thilak Naidu, 45.2 ov), 4-139 (Barrington Rowland, 83.2 ov), 5-151 (Anantharam Vijay, 96.6 ov), 6-157 (Nagaraj Ramesh, 99.5 ov), 7-178 (Balachandra Akhil, 108.6 ov), 8-202 (Sunil Joshi, 117.1 ov), 9-256 (Dodda Ganesh, 134.3 ov), 10-268 (Venkatesh Prasad, 139.1 ov)

Bowling	O	M	R	W	ECON	0s	4s	6s	NB
Laxmi Shukla	27	10	49	1	1.81	-	-	-	0
Abdul Masood	15	6	42	1	2.80	-	-	-	3
Utpal Chatterjee	61.1	19	102	6	1.66	-	-	-	0
Saurasish Lahiri	11	2	20	0	1.81	-	-	-	0
Vishal Singh Yadav	21	4	49	1	2.33	-	-	-	5
Devang Gandhi	4	2	2	1	0.50	-	-	-	0

Bengal 2nd Innings

Batting		R	B	M	4s	6s	SR
Nikhil Haldipur	c Ramesh b Joshi	43	91	146	7	0	47.25
Alokendu Lahiri	c Akhil b Prasad	5	6	12	1	0	83.33
Devang Gandhi	c Ramesh b Joshi	88	162	213	12	0	54.32
Rohan Gavaskar	b Vadeyaraj	11	47	60	2	0	23.40
Saba Karim †	not out	55	111	141	5	1	49.54
Charanjit Singh	lbw b Vadeyaraj	2	14	14	0	0	14.28
Vishal Singh Yadav	lbw b Vijay	16	54	58	3	0	29.62
Laxmi Shukla	c †Naidu b Joshi	37	28	30	6	1	132.14
Saurasish Lahiri	c Joshi b Vadeyaraj	0	5	8	0	0	0.00
Abdul Masood	c Akhil b Vadeyaraj	0	7	9	0	0	0.00
Extras	(b 5, lb 2)	7
Total	87.3 Ov (RR: 3.01, 349 Mins)	264/9d
Did not bat: Utpal Chatterjee (c)
Fall of wickets: 1-7 (Alokendu Lahiri, 2.2 ov), 2-103 (Nikhil Haldipur, 33.6 ov), 3-140 (Rohan Gavaskar, 48.4 ov), 4-156 (Devang Gandhi, 53.5 ov), 5-161 (Charanjit Singh, 58.3 ov), 6-200 (Vishal Singh Yadav, 75.2 ov), 7-248 (Laxmi Shukla, 82.6 ov), 8-252 (Saurasish Lahiri, 85.1 ov), 9-264 (Abdul Masood, 87.3 ov)

Bowling	O	M	R	W	ECON	0s	4s	6s
Venkatesh Prasad	12	5	30	1	2.50	-	-	-
Dodda Ganesh	10	0	40	0	4.00	-	-	-
Sunil Joshi	39	10	108	3	2.76	-	-	-
Anantharam Vijay	5	1	20	1	4.00	-	-	-
Santosh Vadeyaraj	21.3	6	59	4	2.74	-	-	-

Karnataka 2nd Innings (T: 313 runs)

Batting		R	B	M	4s	6s	SR
Barrington Rowland	not out	36	58	82	6	0	62.06
Mithun Beerala	lbw b Shukla	1	8	14	0	0	12.50
Thilak Naidu †	not out	15	42	67	3	0	35.71
Extras		0
Total	18 Ov (RR: 2.88, 82 Mins)	52/1
Did not bat: Anantharam Vijay, Balachandra Akhil, Sunil Joshi (c), Jagadeesh Arunkumar, Nagaraj Ramesh, Dodda Ganesh, Santosh Vadeyaraj, Venkatesh Prasad
Fall of wickets: 1-1 (Mithun Beerala, 2.4 ov)

Bowling	O	M	R	W	ECON	0s	4s	6s
Laxmi Shukla	5	4	8	1	1.60	-	-	-
Abdul Masood	5	2	11	0	2.20	-	-	-
Rohan Gavaskar	4	1	17	0	4.25	-	-	-
Saurasish Lahiri	3	1	14	0	4.66	-	-	-
Nikhil Haldipur	1	0	2	0	2.00	-	-	-

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Sat, 04 Mar - day 1 - Bengal 1st innings 281/5 (Saba Karim 109*, Utpal Chatterjee 17*, 91 ov)

Sun, 05 Mar - day 2 - Karnataka 1st innings 119/3 (Barrington Rowland 43*, Anantharam Vijay 21*, 71 ov)

Mon, 06 Mar - day 3 - Bengal 2nd innings 75/1 (Nikhil Haldipur 25*, Devang Gandhi 40*, 22 ov)

Tue, 07 Mar - day 4 - Karnataka 2nd innings 52/1 (18 ov) - end of match

Match Flow

Day 1

At Lunch: Bengal 117/4 in 38 overs (Karim 3*, Charanjit Singh 5*)
Bengal 50 in 57m, 12.4 overs
Bengal 100 in 109m, 26.3 overs
Bengal 150 in 195m, 50.4 overs
SS Karim reached 5000 runs in Ranji Trophy when he was on 31 runs
Bengal 200 in 254m, 65.2 overs
SS Karim 50 off 124m, 160b, 9x4
At Tea: Bengal 206/4 in 70 overs (Karim 54*, Charanjit Singh 35*)
SS Karim 100 off 197m, 155b, 17x4
New ball taken after 82 overs when score was 259/5
5th wicket partnership between Karim and Charanjit Singh came in 152m, 253 balls

Day 2

Day 3

Karnataka 50 in 134m, 30.2 overs
Karnataka 100 in 249m, 62.3 overs
Karnataka 150 in 365m, 95.4 overs
2nd New ball taken after 100 overs when Karnataka 157/6
U Chatterjee became highest wicket taker in a season for Bengal
Last previous record was Chetan Sharma who take 45 wickets in Season in the year 1993-94. Now Chatterjee took 46 wickets
At Lunch: Karnataka 185/7 in 110 overs (Joshi 21*, Ganesh 0*)
At Tea: Karnataka 268 in 139.1 overs

Day 4

DJ Gandhi 50 off 132m, 107b, 7x4
SS Karim 50 off 138m, 111b, 5x4, 1x6
At Lunch: Bengal 184/5 in 72 overs (Karim 19*, Yadav 11*)
Bengal 50 in 63m, 13.4 overs
Bengal 100 in 108m, 31.4 overs
Bengal 150 in 219m, 51.5 overs
Bengal 200 in 299m, 75.1 overs
Bengal 250 in 337m, 84.4 overs
At Tea: Bengal 264/9d in 87.3 overs (Karim 55*)
Karnataka 50 in 78m, 17 overs

Match Details

Eden Gardens, Calcutta
Toss	Bengal, elected to bat first
Series	Ranji Trophy
Season	1999/00
Match days	4,5,6,7 March 2000 - day (4-day match)
Umpires	KS Giridharan RT Ramachandran
Match Referee	Madhav Limaye
Points	Bengal 5, Karnataka 3

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Karnataka Innings

Player Name		R	B
BM Rowland	not out	36	58
MR Beerala	lbw	1	8
VST Naidu	not out	15	42
Total	52(1 wkt; 18 ovs)

Player Name	O	M	R	W	Econ
LR Shukla	5	4	8	1	1.6
A Masood	5	2	11	0	2.2
RS Gavaskar	4	1	17	0	4.25
SS Lahiri	3	1	14	0	4.66
N Haldipur	1	0	2	0	2

Wkt	Runs	Players
1st	1	Barrington Rowland	Mithun Beerala
2nd	51	Barrington Rowland	Thilak Naidu

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Ranji Trophy

Group A

Team	M	W	L	D	PT
MUM	1	1	0	0	8
KNTKA	1	0	1	0	0

North Zone

Team	M	W	L	D	PT
HP	1	0	0	1	5
J + K	1	0	0	1	3

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