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After finishing Day 1 of Tripura vs Bengal, Ranji Trophy 2025-26 match on 171/1, Bengal batters will now look to bat till the end of Day 2 to ensure they bat only once in the match. However, the rain, poor light, and adverse weather conditions may impact the progress of Day 2’s action at the Maharaja Bir Bikram Stadium in Agartala, Tripura.
Match details
Match: Tripura vs Bengal, Ranji Trophy 2025-26, Round 3
Date: 1-4 November 2025
Time: 8.30 am IST
Venue: Mahraja Bir Bikram Cricket Stadium, Agartala
Where to watch the match?
There will be no LIVE telecast or streaming of this match. However, you can follow the match on our LIVE blog.
What happened on Day 1?
Tripura captain Manisankar Murasingh won the toss and asked the Bengal team to bat first under a bit cloudy and gloomy conditions. As we had already revealed in our preview, all-rounder Rahul Prasad made his first-class debut, Kazi Junaid Saifi and Shakir Habib Gandhi replaced Abhimanyu Easwaran and Sudip Chatterjee, while Mohammed Kaif replaced Suraj Sindhu Jaiswal in the playing XI. Tripura also made three changes to their lineup from the last match.
Tripura’s decision to bowl first came into action when Abhijit Sarkar dismissed Kazi Junaid Saifi in the second over of the inning. The controversial dismissal saw batter Saifi being dissatisfied with the decision and also receiving a caution from the match referee.
Tripura’s start would have been perfect if Hrituraj Roy had not dropped an easy catch in the second slip off Rana Dutta when Sudip Gharami was on 20.
Gharami made sure he paid them back with a solid inning of 70 off 169 balls while striking his third consecutive fifty of the season.
But it was Shakir Habib Gandhi, who, went against his nature, started slow, and coped a few on the body to ensure Bengal did not lose any other wicket after the early dismissal. Gandhi took time, and they capitalised on loose balls and hit boundaries against the spin bowling to reach his maiden first-class fifty.
Bengal reached 150/1 in 52 overs when tea was called, with Sudip Kumar Gharami 65(150) and Shakir Habib Gandhi 70(158) starting to add some quick runs. Post tea, only when Habib started to become more aggressive, the clouds came, and only 8 more overs could have been bowled before the umpires called it a day.
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Day 1’s play of Tripura vs Bengal Ranji Trophy match in Agartala was called off due to bad light!
— Koushik Biswas (@kbofficial25) November 1, 2025
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Bengal’s plan on Day 2
After the end of Day 1’s play, Bengal batter Sudip Gharami shared with Sportz Point that the wicket is good to bat on, but the early morning dew made the ball seam a bit. Moreover, the disciplined bowling from Tripura also made it tougher for them to score early in the first session.
But, as the sun came out, the pitch got easier, and there was not that much of a threat from the Tripura bowlers as well. On Bengal’s plan for day 2, batter Shakir Habib Gandhi told Sportz Point, “We would look to bat the entire Day 2 and score as much as possible and then look to bowl them out twice in this match.”
However, as we write this report, Agartala has already seen a slight drizzle, and a forthcoming rain on Day 2 might massacre the plans of the Bengal team as they will have to play a tight game with time and weather alongside the Tripura team.
Day 1 score summary:
Day 1: Stumps - Bengal: 171/1 (60 overs) | Sudip Kumar Gharami 70(169), Shakir Habib Gandhi 82(187)
Fall of wickets: Kazi Saifi 0 (1.4 overs, 4-1)
Bengal (Playing XI): Sudip Kumar Gharami, Kazi Saifi, Shakir Habib Gandhi, Anustup Majumdar, Abishek Porel(w/c), Sumanta Gupta, Shahbaz Ahmed, Rahul Hari Prasad, Mohammed Kaif, Mohammed Shami, Ishan Porel.
Tripura (Playing XI): Bikramkumar Das, Hrituraj Roy, Sridam Paul, Hanuma Vihari, Vijay Shankar, Swapnil Singh, Manisankar Murasingh(c), Sentu Sarkar(w), Rana Dutta, Abhijit K Sarkar, Bikramjit Debnath