Sahid Sporting win MCl Cup Cricket Inaugural
Bhubaneswar: Sahid Sporting defeated Rameswar Sporting by 2 wickets in the inaugural match of the MCl Cup NM Bhuyan Memorial All Odisha Cricket Tournament at BJB College Ground here Thursday.
Batting first, Rameswar Sporting faced early setback by losing top four wickets for 34 runs. Middle-order batsman Sandeep Sethy (35) and Prasant Bhoi (45) helped the team to recover from the crisis by stitching 69 runs partnership for the fifth wickets and team total reached 165 in 35 overs.
Similarly, Sahid Sporting lost top four wickets for 44 runs, Ranji trophy player Rashmi Ranjan Parida’s 38-balls 44 and Rupak Jena’s 50-balls 43 consolidated the innings and the team reached the winning target for the loss of eight wickets in 34.5 overs. Rashmi Ranjan of the winning team received the man of the match award.
Paramount Sporting of Bhubaneswar will face Solar Sporting of Cuttack on Friday.
Brief Score: Rameswar Sporting 165/10 in 35 overs (Sandeep Sethy 35, Prasant Bhoi 45, Nilu Pradhan 33 n.o; Swayam Siddha 3/30, Abhilash Semwal 2/27, Sidhant Sagar 2/36, Rakesh Pattnaik 2/21) lost to Sahid Sporting 171/8 in 34.5 overs (Rashmi Ranjan Parida 44, Rupak Jena 43, Rakesh Gochhayat 25; Rajesh Mohanty 3/28) by 2 wickets.
lingaraj Cup Volleyball on March 12
Bhubaneswar: The lingaraj Sports Association is all set to host the 9th lingaraj Cup State level Volleyball Tournament at lingaraj Sports Association Ground here on March 12.
lingaraj Sports Association, Kendrapada, Puri and Paradip Port Trust are the four teams will participate in the day and night meet.
The champion will receive the trophy along with cash award of Rs 5,000 and the runner up will get Rs 3,000. The tournament will be conducted by national referees. The organiser will felicitate veteran volleyballers for their lifetime achievement.
Sports Hostel barge into Tata-Utkalika Football final
Bhubaneswar: Sports Hostel of Cuttack barged into the final of the Tata-Utkalika Invitational Football Tournament defeating Yazdani Club-73 by 1-0 goal at Uni-6 High School Ground here on Thursday.
The all important goal scored by Hari Mohan Soren in the 15th minute. Prasant Nayak of Club-73 bagged the man of the match award.
Organiser Unit-6 Athletic Association felicitated former Mohun Nagan Club player Subrat Bhatacharay on the occasion in presence of Angul Sukunda Railways MD Dilip Kumar Samantray and Odisha Olympic Association vice president Manoranjan Mohanty.
Siba Sankar Panda. T Mohan Rao, Prakash Das and Shekhawat Khan were the official conducted the semifinal match as referees. In the semifinal match on Friday, defending champion TFA will take on Kishor Club of Bhubaneswar.
AG East Zone Hockey from March 13
Bhubaneswar: Accountant General of Odisha will host the IA and AD East Zone and Inter Zonal Hockey Tournament at the Kalinga Stadium here from March 13 to 20. Accountant General Odisha, West Bengal and Jharkhand are the three teams will participate in the East Zone Hockey Tournament to be played on knockout basis from March 13 to 14. In the inaugural match Odisha will take on Jharkhand. The champion and runner up will qualify for the Inter Zonal Hockey Tournament to be held at Kalinga Stadium from March 16 to 20.
North Zone, South Zone, East Zone and West Zone teams will participate in the league round matches. National repute players Nitin Timaya, Nikin Timaya, SS Bundala, Imran Khan and Dipendu Bhargav will play for their respective teams.