Host Odisha and Jharkhand gained one point match in their thee-day league Vijay Merchant Trophy East Zone Under-16 match, which ended in a draw at Ravenshaw University ground here today. In reply to a healthy total of 291 by Jharkhand, Odisha were 164 for nine when the match ended in draw. Singh the first inning of both the teams could not be completed, each team settled with one poin.

At one state Odisha were in deep trouble, losing seven wickets for 58 runs. But a valiant 64 by Sidharth Sankar Behera and his 77-run partnership for the eighth wicket with Pritam Jena helped them avoid defeat.

Earlier, Jharkhand rode on a half-century each by Aditya Narayan, Hemant Kumar and Roushan Kumar to compile a healthy of 291. For the home team, four bowlers picked up two wickets each.

SCOREBOARD:
JHARKHAND (1st innings): Aditya Narayan lbw P Jena 54, Vishwjeet Kumar Singh (run out) 2, Shresth Sagar b MS Raja 28, Hemant Kumar c Kanojia b A Das 69, Pankaj Kumar c DR Sahoo b P Laha 4, Nikhil Raj lbw A Das 37, Aditya Singh lbw M Mahapatra 0, Ashish Kumar c M Mahapatra b P Jena 36, Apurva Anand c P Jena b MS Raja 3, Roushan Kumar c KS Bal b P Laha 50, Shailesh Kumar (not out) 1; Extras (b-1, lb-2, nb-1, w-3) 7
Total (all out, 140.3 overs) 291
Fall of wickets: 1-21, 2-69, 3-93, 4-98, 5-198, 6-199, 7-201, 8-210, 9-289, 10-291
Bowling: Anwesh Das 27-13-38-2, Milan Mahapatra 17-4-41-1, Prajwal Laha 39.3-14-62-2, Kshama Sagar Bal 9-2-34-0, Mohammad Sahil Raja 24-7-67-2, Pritam Jena 20-8-38-2, Anurag Kanojia 4-1-8-0.
ODISHA (1st innings): Kshama Sagar Bal lbw R Kumar 21, Girija Sankar Mishra c S Sagar b S Kumar 1, Anurag Kanojia lbw A Singh 1, Baleswar Majhi c S Sagar b A Anand 7, Sidhartha Sankar Behera lbw A Singh 64, Dibya Ranjan Sahoo lbw A Singh 4, Md Sahil Raja c&b A Singh 0, Prajwal Laha c A Singh b S Kumar 1, Pritam Jena (run out) 25, Anwesh Das (not out) 10, Milal Mahapatra (not out 7; Extras (b-8, lb-5, nb-9, w-1) 23
Total (9 wkts, 150 overs) 164
Fall of wickets: 1-6, 2-10, 3-21, 4-40, 5-47, 6-47, 7-58, 8-135, 9-146
Bowling: Shailesh Kumar 17-4-33-2, Roushan Kumar 23-10-29-1, Aditya Singh 52-39-28-4, Apurva Anand 37-22-39-1, Ashish Kumar 11-6-6-0, Hemant Kumar 6-3-6-0, Vishwjeet Kumar Singh 4-1-10-0.