Odisha beat Gujarat in Nat’l Sub-Jr Girls Football
Bhubaneswar: A double goal haul by Bannya Kabiraj guided Odisha to win over Gujarat 4-0 in the Sub Junior National Football Championship for Girls at Barabati Stadium in Cuttack on Tuesday. Bannya scored in the 34th and 59th minutes while Sarita Soreng netted a goal each in the 39th and 69th minutes respectively. In another one-sided match, Haryana edged out Madhya Pradesh 5-0. Mona scored double goals in the 47th and 87th while Tamanna and Vikita scored a goal each in the third and 30th minutes respectively. In the match played between Uttar Pradesh and Bihar ended in 1-1goal draw in the stipulated time. After the barren first half, Uttar Pradesh got the lead through the goal by Jyoti Kumari in the 56th minute. Just after two minute Adity Gupta netted the equalizer. Uttarakhand, Chhattisgarh and Chandigarh will take on Jharkhand, Manipur and Goa respectively on Wednesday.
BBSR-A, CTC-A win in U-16 Inter-district cricket
Bhubaneswar: A and Cuttack-A defeated KIIT and Koraput by 10 wickets and 99 runs respectively in their two day long super league matches of the U-16 Inter-District Cricket Tournament at Cuttack on Tuesday. Earlier eight teams qualified for the super league after completion of 48 preliminary league matches. They were: Bargarh, KIIT, Koraput, Nayagarh, Nuapada, Rourkela Sambalpur and Bhadrak.
Brief score: At Ravenshaw Ground-I: Nayagarh 108/10 in 58.4 overs (Dyani Kalash 28; Sai Prasad Acharya 3/7, Arun Kumar Routray 3/10, Bl Sibaram Bajarangi 2/27) and 230/9 in 62 overs (Krushna Ch. Barik 69, Suvransu Harichandan 46, Sanjay Parida 28; Gyana Ranjan Baliarsingh 3/34, Bl Sibaram Bajrangi 3/39) drew with Cuttack-B 165/10 in 63.5 overs (Rudra Narayan Dash 36, Gyana Ranjan Baliarsingh 25; Suvransu Harichandan 3/28, Dyani Kalash 3/43, Dillip Jena 2/36. overs). At Sunshine Ground: KIIT 34/10 in 25.3 overs (Priyaranjan Swain 4/10, Minal Parida 4/14) and 112/10 in 66.4 overs (Susant Majhi 32; Sushil Barik 4/16, Bikash Nayak 2/8, Minal Parida 2/28) lost Bhubaneswar-A 120/10 in 60.5 overs (Anwesh Tripathy 29; Jogibara Tiria 4/45, Amoda Majhi 3/18, Saroj Dalai 2/15) and 27/0 in 9.2 overs by 10 wickets. At Bidanasi Ground: Kendrapara 151/10 in 56.3 overs (Biswajit Jena 28, Jagyanjeet Sahu 28 n.o, Ritesh Samal 22; Anish Das 7/62, Omm Prakash Naik 2/41) and 84/3 in 30 overs (Biswajit Jena 50; Nishith Singh 2/5) draw with Sambalpur 184/10 in 78.5 overs (Anish Dash 27, Sayed Harun 55; Hare Krishna Ghadai 2/46, Sd. Aman Ali 3/51, Biswajit Jena 2/24). At BOSE Ground: Cuttack-A 137/10 in 44.5 overs (Sidharth Jain 25, Anil Parida 24; Aditya Rout 4/23, Gourav Dash 3/23, Sk Bhukhari 2/54) and declared 126/7 in 44 overs (Debi Prasad Bhanja 56, Spandan Sabat 27 n.o; Sk. Bhukhari 3/61, Gourav Dash 2/14, Aditya Rout 2/36) beat Koraput 58/10 in 26.4 overs (Gyana Ranjan Acharya 3/5, Utkal Kishore Jena 3/17, Debiprasad Bhanja 2/16) and 45/6 in 17 overs (Saswat Mohanty 21; Sk Bhukhari 3/26, Gourav Dash 2/2) and 106/10 in 29 overs (Abhisek Banik 63; Nitish Niranjan Samantaray 5/19, Spandan Sabat 2/19, Debiprasad Bhanja 2/27) by 99 runs.