Ahmedabad: Odisha surrendered the initiative on the second day of their Ranji Trophy opener against Gujarat at Narendra Modi Stadium B ground.
Resuming on a promising first-day score of 272/3, Odisha lost seven wickets for 52 runs on Monday morning to be bowled out for 324 with Gourav Choudhury making a career-best (in any format) 137.
The fourth-wicket partnership was broken in the day’s second over, Sandeep Pattnaik falling for his overnight score of 69. Gourav carried on from 121 before being dismissed by Harshal Patel.
Odisha pacer Rajesh Mohanty struck with the third ball of Gujarat’s innings, having Abhishek Desai caught by Pattnaik with no run on the board.
But thereafter, the Odisha bowlers were made to chase leather as the left-right combination of Aarya Desai and Vedant Trivedi stitched a 164-run partnership for the second wicket.
Badal Biswal had Aarya caught-behind by Aashirwad Swain for 94, while Vedant is unbeaten on 94.
BRIEF SCORES
Odisha first innings: 324 (Gourav Choudhury 137, Sandeep Pattnaik 69; Arzan Nagwaswalla 3/65, Siddharth D3sai 2/54).
Gujarat first innings: 205/2 (Aarya Desai 94, Vedant Trivedi batting 94; Badal Biswal 1/31, Rajesh Mohanty 1/36).
Match to continue on Day 3.