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Ranji Trophy - East Zone League (Mona Mitter Memorial Trophy)

Mohandas Menon

Match No: 1 (Bengal v Assam)
At Eden Gardens, Calcutta on 12, 13, 14, 15 November, 1999.
Match Drawn
Assam 347 (S Saikia 124, Sumeet Ranjan Das 39, RKa Borah 38, Gautam Dutta 34 not out; U Chatterjee 5-54) & Assam 228-5 (T Rehman 103 not out, Sukhvinder Singh 37, VR Samant 30 not out)
Bengal 351 (NL Haldipur 33, RS Gavaskar 63, SJ Kalyani 59, W Mujumdar 68 not out; Sukhvinder Singh 5-113)
Bengal 5 pts, Assam 3 pts

Match No: 2 (Tripura v Bihar)
At MBB College Stadium, Agartala on 12, 13, 14, 15 November, 1999.
Bihar won by 51 runs
Bihar 174 (Avinash Kumar 43; S Chaudhuri 3-2) & 231 (Nikhlesh Ranjan 51, V Kumar 42, Rajiv Kumar 45, S Roy 3-38, A Shukla 3-47)
Tripura 172 (R Chaudhuri 31, A Velaskar 34, V Prajapati 37 not out, S Chaudhuri 34) & 182 (A Velaskar 58; Avinash Kumar 5-47, KVP Rao 5-65)
Bihar 8 pts, Tripura 0 pts

Match No: 3 (Tripura v Bengal)
At MBB College Stadium, Agartala on 22, 23, 24, 25 November, 1999.
Bengal won by innings & 252 runs
Bengal 533-2 decl. (NL Haldipur 47, D Dasgupta 38, RS Gavaskar 212 not out, SJ Kalyani 200 not out)
Tripura 163 (R Ghosh 58, U Chatterjee 7-45) & 118 (R Chaudhuri 41, U Chatterjee 4-16, W Mujumdar 4-4)
Bengal 8 pts, Tripura 0 pts
Gavaskar (212* in 506 mins, 377 balls, 1 six, 18 fours) and Kalyani (200* in 460 mins, 358 balls, 17 fours) put on an unbeaten 406 for the third wicket in 460 mins, 720 balls, as Bengal won with the loss only two wickets.

Match No: 4 (Orissa v Bihar)
At Barabati Stadium, Cuttak on 22, 23, 24, 25 November, 1999.
Match Drawn
Orissa 390 (SS Das 94, PR Mahapatra 38, RR Parida 115, SK Satpathy 54 not out; KVP Rao 3-114) & 84-0 (SS Das 44 not out, P Jaychandra 39 not out)
Bihar 386 (D Chakrabarty 57, V Saxena 55, Avinash Kumar 96 not out; SK Satpathy 4-65)
Orissa 5 pts, Bihar 3 pts

Match No: 5 (Assam v Tripura)
At DSA Stadium, Mangoldoi on 25, 26 December, 1999.
Assam won by an innings & 56 runs
Tripura 57 (GD Dutta 8-23) & 136 (G Banik 40; Sukhbinder Singh 3-25)
Assam 249 (S Ghosh 52, GD Dutta 45, Sukhbinder Singh 73; R Debbarma 3-67, G Banik 3-49)
Assam 8 pts, Tripura 0 pts
Match was completed in two days.

Match No: 6 (Orissa v Bengal)
At Barabati Stadium, Cuttack on 25, 26, 27, 28 December, 1999.
Match Drawn
Orissa 370 (SS Das 81, P Mullick 108, SS Raul 53, P Jaichandra 64; LR Shukla 6-86) & 336-5 (SS Das 82, P Mullick 111, SS Raul 52; W Mujumder 3-110)
Bengal 275 (RS Gavaskar 115 U Chatterjee 34; A Barick 4-83, J Das 3-30)
Orissa 5 pts, Bengal 3 pts

Match No: 7 (Orissa v Assam)
At Angul Stadium, Angul, on 3, 4, 5, 6 January, 2000.

Match Drawn
Orissa 425 (P Mullick 40, SS Raul 120, P Jaichandra 72, R Morris 88, G Gautam 30; GD Dutta 3-78, Sukhbinder Singh 5-129) & 202-4 decl (SS Das 71, PR Mohapatra 62 not out)
Assam 306 (S Zakaria Zuffri 68, R Borah 82, GD Dutta 55 not out; SK Satpathy 6-86) & 265-7 (S Zakaria Zuffri 144, S Ghosh 47; SS Raul 3-49).
Orissa 5 pts, Assam 3 pts

Match No: 8 (Bihar v Bengal)
At Kennan Stadium, Jamshedpur, on 3, 4, 5, 6 January, 2000.
Match Drawn
Bihar 341 (Niklesh Ranjan 31, Rajiv Kumar 65, Sunil Kumar 35, Sandeep Roy 46, Satish Singh 43, Avinash Kumar 32 not out; U Chatterjee 5-90) & 51-1
Bengal 561 (Nilamber Saha 60, RS Gavaskar 72, SJ Kalyani 94, SS Karim 129, U Chatterjee 30, W Mujumder 50, S Panda 48; Avinash Kumar 4-172, Satish Singh 4-129)
Bengal 5 pts, Bihar 3 pts

Match No: 9 (Orissa v Tripura)
At Samanta Chandrasekhar College Ground, Puri, on 12, 13, 14 January, 2000.
Orissa won by an innings and 182 runs
Orissa 545-8 decl. (PR Mahapatra 54, P Das 68, RR Parida 193, SS Raul 30, P Jaichandra 53, RR Das 63, Y Mohanty 31 not out; A Shukla 5-182)
Tripura 172 (R Ghosh 31, C Sachdev 45, S Chowdhury 31; A Barick 3-56, J Das 3-29) & 191 (A Pratap 58; J Das 5-31)
Orissa 8 pts, Tripura 0 pts

Match No: 10 (Bihar v Assam)
At Keenan Stadium, Jamshedpur, on 12, 13, 14, 15 January, 2000.
Bihar won by 191 runs
Bihar 258 (Nikhlesh Ranjan 58, Sunil Kumar 68, MS Dhoni 40; Javed Zaman 3-45, O Singh 5-81) & 343 (D Chakrabarty 32, Aamir Hashmi 53, Rajiv Kumar 84, Sunil Kumar 35, MS Dhoni 68 not out; O Singh 3-88)
Assam 247 (S Zakaria Zuffri 37, RK Borah 39, VR Samant 43; Avinash Kumar 4-74, Vikash Kumar 5-98) & 163 (PK Das 30, Sukhbinder Singh 54; Avinash Kumar 6-43, Vikash Kumar 3-56).
Bihar 8 pts, Assam 0 pts

Final East Zone league position: Orissa 23 pts (4 matches)
Bihar 22 pts (4)
Bengal 21 pts (4)
Assam 14 pts (4)
Tripura 0 pts (4)
Orissa, Bihar and Bengal qualify to the Super League.