National Sports Council of Assam Ground

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National Sports Council of Assam Ground
Full nameNational Sports Council of Assam Ground
Former namesNational Sports Council of Assam Stadium
Location Jorhat, Assam
Owner National Sports Council of Assam
Operator National Sports Council of Assam
Capacity 5,000
Construction
Broke ground1953
Opened1953
Website
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The National Sports Council of Assam Ground, also known as the National Sports Council of Assam Stadium, is a former first-class cricket ground in Jorhat, Assam.

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First-class matches

Ten first-class matches were played at the ground between 1953 and 1974, eight of them by Assam in the Ranji Trophy. In all ten matches the home team lost. There were many low innings totals and some notable bowling figures.

1953–54

Paul Gibb made 154, which remained the highest score on the ground. He and Ken Meuleman (79) put on 211 for the first wicket. [1]

1954–55

S.K. Girdhari took six wickets in each innings for Assam and Bimal Bose took six in each innings for Bihar. Bose's 12 for 47 remained the best match figures on the ground; Girdhari took 12 for 66. Girdhari also top-scored for Assam in each innings, with 14 and 46. [2]

1956–57

Premangsu Chatterjee took 10 for 20 for Bengal in the first innings, which remain the best first-class figures ever taken outside England and Wales. Dattu Phadkar took 7 for 65 in Assam's second innings. For Assam, S.K. Girdhari took 7 for 157, Assam's best figures on the ground, and made 100, Assam's only century on the ground. [3]

1958–59

In his first first-class match, Jyoti Dutta took 7 for 18 and 3 for 21 for Bengal. [4]

Wes Hall took 7 for 54 in the first innings, Eric Atkinson 6 for 10 in the second. [5]

1966–67

Jiban Ghosh took 7 for 15 in Assam's first innings. Pankaj Roy made 140 for Bengal. [6]

Anand Shukla took 5 for 14 and 5 for 36. [7]

1974–75

Anand Shukla took 5 for 15 and 2 for 26, giving him 17 for 91 in two matches on the ground. [10]

Ambar Roy made 126. Dilip Doshi took 6 for 6 in Assam's first innings; Aloke Bhattacharjee took 7 for 7 in the second innings, for match figures of 12.2–6–11–10. For Assam, Nandan Bezbarua top-scored in each innings with 11 and 8 not out; he carried his bat in the second innings. [11]

Statistics

In the eight Ranji Trophy matches, Assam scored 1366 runs for the loss of 159 wickets, at an average of 8.59 runs per wicket. Assam's opponents scored 2718 runs for 106 wickets at an average of 25.64.

The ground

Sujit Mukherjee, who was in the Bihar squad in December 1954 but did not play in the match, described the ground:

The cricket ground was a winsomely green oval surrounded by grass banks and large leafy trees. Because of the trees, playing hours were set between nine-thirty and four-thirty, otherwise long shadows overcast the wicket. Until nearly nine in the morning the ground would be shrouded in mist; then it suddenly dispersed and the arena was bathed in sunlight like the stage of an amphitheatre. [12]

Assam home grounds

Assam had previously played a Ranji Trophy match in Jorhat in 1949–50 on the Conamara Ground. [13] Since 1974–75 no matches have been held in Jorhat, although a number of other centres in the state have hosted matches from time to time. Most of Assam's games are now staged in the state's largest city, Guwahati.

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References

  1. ↑ "Assam Governor's XI v Commonwealth XI 1953–54". CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
  2. ↑ "Assam v Bihar 1954–55". CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
  3. ↑ "Assam v Bengal 1956–57". CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
  4. ↑ "Assam v Bengal 1958–59". CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
  5. ↑ "East Zone v West Indians 1958–59". CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
  6. ↑ "Assam v Bengal 1966–67". CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
  7. ↑ "Assam v Bihar 1966–67". CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
  8. ↑ "Assam v Orissa 1966–67". CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
  9. ↑ "Assam v Orissa 1974–75". CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
  10. ↑ "Assam v Bihar 1974–75". CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
  11. ↑ "Assam v Bengal 1974–75". CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
  12. ↑ Sujit Mukherjee, Autobiography of an Unknown Cricketer, Ravi Dayal, Delhi, 1996, p. 93.
  13. ↑ "First-class matches played by Assam". CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 January 2015.

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