The East Zone league matches in the Ranji Trophy, 1957-58 started with the match between the teams of Assam and Orissa at Cuttack from 15-17 December, 1957. The Assam team got 5 points and the Orissa got 3 points from the drawn match of the league. The second match saw the teams of Bihar and Assam playing against each other at Jamshedpur from 21-23 December, 1957. The Bihar team played very well in the match and won it by a huge margin of an innings and 51 runs, to earn the total 9 points from the match. The Assam team then played against the Bengal team in the next match at Calcutta from 26-28 December, 1957. The Bengal team did well to win the match by an innings and 47 runs and earned the entire 9 points from the match. The teams of Bihar and Orissa clashed with each other in the next league match of the East Zone in Ranji Trophy, 1957-58, at Cuttack from 29-30 December 1957. The Bihar team became successful to win this match by an innings and 130 runs and also earned the entire 9 points from the match. The Orissa team then played against the Bengal team at Cuttack from 04-05 January, 1958, where the Bengal team won by an innings and 99 runs. This win earned the Bengal team a huge 9 points from the match. The last league match of the East Zone was played between the two most powerful teams of the Zone, Bengal and Bihar at Patna from 11-13 January, 1958. The Bengal team played extremely well in the match and clinched a victory of an innings and 26 runs, to earn the entire 9 points from the match. |