Kesramal wins Samvardhan Football Tourney title
Rourkela: Kesramal team emerged champion in the Samvardhan Football Tournament by defeating Blue Diamond Team of lathikata by 6-3 goals via through penalty shoot-out at the Chikatmati Village on March 20. The final match ended in 2-2 goal draw in the stipulated time. The champion team bagged the trophy along with cash prize of Rs 8,000 and the runners-up richer by Rs 7,000.
Rourkela Steel Plant organized the tournament to promote sports and games in the region as CSR activity. Rourkela Steel Plant, CEO GS Prasad distributed the awards as the chief guest of the concluding function. The CSR department of RSP in association with the local sporting clubs at Jabapanposh, Dumerjore and Chikatmati villages organized three different football tournaments from March 11 to 20. 32 teams participated in each of these tournaments taking the total number of participating teams to 96.
RFC beat Odisha Police in All India Football meet
Balesore: In the nail biting quarterfinal match RFC Mumbai pipped Odisha Police by 1-0 goal in the All India Invitation Cup football Tournament at Permit Ground here on Thursday. Sagar Chili of the RFC team scored the all important goal in the first-half. After the lemon breaks, Odisha Police intensified the attack but failed to defeat the RFC defence. In another quarterfinal match on Friday, Yazdani Club-73 Bhubaneswar would meet Eastern Railways Kolkata. Pradip Kumar Das, Subrat Purohit, Bhanu Bouri, SK Hayat and Jugal Kishore Das were the officials for the match. Sangram Das, Sriman Srichandan, Sujay Acharya , Swarop Das, Asit Das , Bireswar Das , Krushna Chandra Sahu and Abhay Mohapatra were among others.
Odisha top East Zone T20 Cricket
Bhubaneswar: In the last league round match Odisha defeated West Bengal by 34 runs and registered three win out of five marches and finished top in the Sd Mustaq Ali East Zone T20 Cricket league at Tripura on Thursday. Odisha qualified for the superleague-cum-knockout matches of the All India Sd Mustaq Ali Trophy to be held at Ranchi in Jharkhand from October 25 to 31. Three-wickets each haul by l Shukla and I Sexena of West Bengal had been gone to vain as team suffered a defeat in a low-scoring league match from Odisha. Batting first Odisha scored 129 runs in 20 overs. Dependable Govind Poddar scored 46 runs and well supported by tailender Deepak Behera who contributed 32 runs. In reply, Suryakanta Pradhan and experienced Basanta Mohanty bagged three and two wickets respectively and restricted West Bengal for 95 runs in 20 overs losing seven wickets. Brief Score: Odisha 129/10 in 20 overs (Govind Podder 46, Deepak Behera 32; l Shukla 3/27, I Sexena 3/22, S Mandal 2/32) beat West Bengal 95/7 in 20 overs (D Das 21 n.o; Suryakanta Pradhan 3/8,Basanta Mohanty 2/14) by 34 runs.