Pune, Nov 6 Maharashtra captain Harshad Khadiwale's 114 went in vain as Ranadeb Bose scalped five wickets to script a seven-wicket victory for Bengal in their opening Ranji Trophy Super League Group B match here today.

Bose (5/57), in off-spinner Saurashish Lahiri's (4/87) company, ran through the Maharashtra batting line up, which frittered the advantage of a good start given by Khadiwale and Rohan Bhosale (33). The duo shared 99 runs for the opening wicket.

Bose finished with match figures of 10 for 124.

Rohit Motwani (67) and Ganesh Gaikwad (43) were the other notable run-getters for the hosts with the pair stitching together 90 runs for the sixth wicket to give Maharashtra bowlers something to defend.

Resuming at the overnight score of 305 for seven in their second essay, the remaining three Maharashtra wicket could only add 14 runs in 6.

- (Agencies)