He batted low in the order, and made his highest score of 66 against Bengal in his second match.
Bihar needed 264 to take the first-innings lead, which in a drawn match, as this one seemed likely to be, effectively counted as a victory.
[3] In the 1948-49 Ranji Trophy match against Delhi he took 7 for 42 in the first innings, then when Delhi needed only 78 in the second innings to win he and his captain Shute Banerjee dismissed them in 21 overs for 48, Bose taking 4 for 25.
[5] In his next match, in 1954–55, he led Bihar to victory over Assam, taking 6 for 16 and 6 for 31 at Jorhat.
[13][14] They lost to Mysore in the semi-final on Bihar's home ground, Keenan Stadium in Jamshedpur, but Bose took 6 for 78 and 6 for 95, bowling 51 overs out of 108 in the second innings.