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The way the match was going, it was understood on Friday that Bengal could pick up all six points in this match, Kamal Bangla made no mistake in just two and a half days on Saturday.
Calcutta: Bengal has achieved by relying on bowling performance Bangla team packed up Haryana in two and a half days in Ranji’s knockout But there is one thorn that is Bengal’s batting failure in both innings Bengal won by 188 runs against Haryana in Ranji group stage. The knockout phase was already assured, with Team Bengal winning the last match of the group stage by a landslide long before the end of three days. Shahbaz Ahmed scored the main win for Abhimanyu Iswaran & Co Shahbaz Ahmed bagged 11 wickets in Lahli. After five wickets in the first innings, 6 Haryana batters were his victims in the second innings as well.
The way the match was going, it was understood on Friday that Bengal could pick up all six points in this match, Kamal Bangla made no mistake in just two and a half days on Saturday. Bengal’s batting failure is a major concern for Abhimanyu Iswaran, despite securing their place in the last eight as the top team from Group ‘C’ of the Ranji Trophy 2025-26.
After the flop show of the Bengal batsmen in the first innings, the Bengal batting brigade fell flat in the second innings. Bengal’s first innings ended with 193 runs. And the second innings ended with 200 runs 155 for 3 lost seven wickets for 50 runs Sudeep Chatterjee was brilliant despite the batting failure in the first innings. In the end his 86 runs became very important. After that, Khatam Haryanap played in 31.1 overs in front of Akash Deep and Shahbaz Ahmed’s storm. Akash Deep got 5 wickets for 40 runs. Shahbaz had 5 wickets. Meanwhile, he took 6 wickets in the second innings and ended Haryana’s second innings with just 100 runs.
Abhimanyu Iswaran scored 83 runs and Sudeep Gharami scored 61 runs Bengal’s star all-rounder took three wickets in four balls. After giving a big shock to Haryana in the beginning, Shahbaz once again brought success to Bengal by breaking the pair
Kolkata, West Bengal
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