KOLKATA, Feb. 17: A mature 102 not out by Wriddhiman Saha led Bengal to a second successive comprehensive victory in the Vijay Hazare inter-state East Zone one-dayers at the Eden Gardens on Tuesday. Saha’s controlled aggression enabled the hosts surpass Assam’s challenging total of 269/8 for the loss of just two wickets with as many as four overs and three balls to spare.

Initially, Saha was quite happy playing second fiddle to rookie Avishek Banerjee who took on the Assam bowlers to notch up his maiden half-century. The duo added 98 for the first wicket before Avishek was adjudged lbw off Arlen Konwar for 68.

Coming at one-down, Sourav Ganguly then amassed 136 with Saha for the second wicket to put the visitors out of the contest. The southpaw in an ideal preparation for the upcoming IPL slammed 64 off just 62 balls with six boundaries and a couple of sixes.

Earlier, Bengal’s toothless bowling allowed Assam to post a total in excess of 250 despite being reduced to 92/4 in 24 overs. Sib Sankar Roy’s 111 and a breezy 79 by Deepak Sharma propelled the Assam innings.

PTI adds from Dharamsala, Virat Kohli hit an unbeaten century, while Ashish Nehra claimed a hat-trick to help Delhi defeat Punjab by seven wickets. Chasing a target of 205 in 50 overs, Delhi scored 205 for the loss of just three wickets in 38.5 overs.

Scores: Assam 269/8 in 50 overs (S Roy 111, Deepak Sharma 79, A Dinda 3/84, A. Chowdhury 2/37) lost to Bengal 272/2 in 45.3 overs (W. Saha 102 n.o., Abhishek Banerjee 68, Sourav Ganguly 64)

Punjab 202 in 48.5 overs (Uday Kaul 107, Ashish Nehra 4/21, Pradeep Sangwan 3/28) lost to Delhi 205/3 in 38.5 overs (Virat Kohli 119 n.o., Rajat Bhatia 53 n.o., S. Kaul 2/54)

Haryana 201 in 47.5 overs (R. Dewan 72, Dhruv Singh 53, V. Bhatia 3/37, Mukesh Sharma 3/41) lost to Himachal Pradesh 202/3 in 38.2 overs (Sangram Singh 80, Amit Mishra 2/37)

Madhya Pradesh 151 in 47.1 overs (M. Ali 40 n.o., Piyush Chawla 4/36, P. Gupta 3/23) lost to UP 154/3 in 38.5 overs (Md Kaif 51 n.o., J Saxena 2/25)

J&K 231/9 in 50 overs (I Singh 81, P Rassol 59, Narender Kumar 4/32, D Attri 3/44) lost to Services 235/6 in 50 overs (Yashpal Singh 126 n.o., Sarabjit Singh 61, P Mahajan 2/17)

Tripura 179 in 44 overs (N Shetty 47, Sourav Dubey 39, N Behera 2/12, B Panda 2/51) lost to Orissa 180/3 in 33.5 overs (SS Das 73)

Vidarbha 190/9 in 50 overs (R. Paradkar 58, M. Kartik 3/30) lost to Railways 194/2 in 35.1 overs (Sanjay Bangar 99 n.o., Dhiraj Salvi 48)