Jaipur: Rajasthan facing defeat against Bengal in the BCCI Under-23 CK Nayudu Trophy match at the Jaipuria Vidyalaya Ground here on Wednesday.At stumps on Day 3, the hosts were 250 for the loss of 7 wickets in their second innings. Rajasthan are ahead by just 44 runs with 3 wickets remaining.In the second essay too, the home team batters dished out a disappointing display and were tottering at 178 for 7 at one stage. However, an unbeaten 72-run partnership for the eighth wicket between Ankit Kumar (50*) and Ayush Ameriya (46*) prevented defeat on the penultimate day.Earlier, resuming from their overnight score of 308 for 8, the visitors were all out for 358 in their first innings. Sumit Nag, who was batting on 100 on Tuesday, went on to slam 131.For Rajasthan, spinner Himanshu Nehra and pacer Deependra Singh claimed three wickets each, while Ankit Kumar, Rahul Choudhary and Ayush Ameriya chipped in with a wicket each.BRIEF SCORESRajasthan (1st innings) 152 and 250/7 in 70 overs (Minaf Sheik 63, Ankit Kumar 50*, Ayush Ameriya 46*, Parth Yadav 37, Karan Singh 24, Himanshu Nehra 17; Yudhajit Guha 2-40, Sayed Irfan Aftab 2-59) vs Bengal (1st innings) 358 in 124.4 overs (Sumit Nag 131*, Shashank Singh 89, Jeet Thakur 50, Sukhmeet Singh 31; Himanshu Nehra 3-55, Deependra Singh 3-117, Ankit Kumar 1-58, Rahul Choudhary 1-58, Ayush Ameriya 1-48).
