Punjab amassed 422 runs in their first innings before reducing Assam to 113 for 3 on the second day of their Ranji Trophy Elite Group 'B' match in Amritsar on Wednesday.
Resuming the day at 297 for three wickets, Pankaj Dharmani (62 not out overnight) added some valuable runs before falling leg before wicket to R Satish for a well-made 85, which included six fours and three hits over the fence.
Wicketkeeper-batsman Chandan Madan chipped in with a useful 43, with the help of six fours and a six in 103 balls.
For the visitors, Parag Das took three wickets while two scalps were taken by R K Yadav and R Satish each.
Chasing the huge score, Assam's batsmen started on a disastrous note with opener Parag Das falling cheaply on 12 with the team's total on 13, off Gagandeep's bowling . A run later, his partner Pervez Aziz fell to the same bowler without opening his score.
However, captain Zakaria Zuffri and Vasant Sarvaman steadied Assam's innings and took the score to 106 when Sarvaman was ruled leg before wicket to Navdeep Singh for 49 runs.
At close of play, Zuffari was battling it out on 41.
Scoreboard
Punjab (1st Innings):
Ravneet Ricky c Zakaria b Parag Das 133
Reetinder Sodhi c Zakaria b R Satish 34
Yuvraj Singh c Vasant b Arlen Kanwar 29
Pankaj Dharmani lbw R Satish 85
Gaurav Gupta lbw R K Yadav 18
Ankur Kakkar b R K Yadav 0
Chandan Madan b Sukhbinder Singh 43
Navdeep Singh c Zakaria b Zaved Zaman 10
Gagandeep b Parag Das 4
Vineet Sharma not out 16
Rajesh Sharma c R Satosj b Parag Das 3
Extras: (b-13, lb-12, nb-18, w-4) 47
Total: (all out in 128.3 overs) 422
Fall of wickets: 1-97, 2-155, 3-279, 4-330, 5-336, 6-346, 7-370, 9-387, 9-403, 10-422.
Bowling: Zaved Zaman 30-6-77-1, R K Yadav 21-2-72-2, Parag Das 21.3-5-59-3, Sukhbinder Singh 31-7-98-2, R Satish 11-3-33-2, Arlen Kanwar 12-0-50-1, Perviz Aziz 2-0-08-0.
Assam (1st Innings):
Parag Das lbw Gagandeep 12
Pervez Aziz b Gagandeep 0
Zakaria Zuffri batting 41
Vasant Sarvaman lbw Naveedp 49
Mritunjoy batting 0.
Extras: (b-4, lb-1, nb-6) 11
Total: (for 3 wickets in 41 overs) 113
Fall of wickets: 1-13, 2-14, 3-106.
Bowling: Gagandeep 10-2-31-2, Vineet Sharma 12-9-21-0, Reetinder Sodhi 5-0-17-0, Rajesh Sharma 10-1-35-0, Navdeep Singh 4-1-04-1.
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