Cuttack-A to meet Bhubaneswar-A in U-14 cricket final
Bhubaneswar : Bhubaneswar-A would meet Cuttack-A in the OCA Inter-District U-14 Cricket Tournament at Barabati Stadium in Cuttack on Wednesday.
In the semifinals on Tuesday, the all round performance by Sultan Ahmad of Bhubaneswar-A who claimed five wickets, smashed 23 runs and guided the team to beat Jharsuguda by five wickets.
Another dramatic semifinal match between Cuttack-A and Balasore ended in draw. But as per BCCI playing condition (Page-87), both team Cuttack-A and Balasore have same number of wins but Cuttack-A qualifies to play the final match having two bonus points in comparison to one bonus point of Balasore.
Brief score: At Barabati Stadium: Balasore 147/10 in 29.4 overs (Biswa Bikash Senapati 24, Subhsish Panda 35; Chandrakant Sahoo 3/34, Nikhil Barun 2/20) draw with Cuttack-A 147/10 in 45.2 overs (Tarini Tanmaya Mohapatra 36, Rudratmak Pradhan 22; Rakesh Pradhan 4/42, Arpit Barik 3/28).
At Ravenshaw College Ground: Jharsuguda 114/10 in 41.5 overs (Sarvan Singh 23, Baivhav Jaiswal 21; Sultan Ahmad 5/17, Sourav Dash 2/34) lost to Bhubaneswar-A 115/5 in 37.3 overs (Sultan Ahmad 23; Sumit Kumar Das 2/12) by 5 wickets.
State sub-junior football team announced
Bhubaneswar : Football Association of Odisha on Monday announced a 20-member sub-junior boys team to represent the State in the Sub Junior Football Team for Sub Junior National Football Championship for Coca- Cola Cup, schedule to be held at Pune and Mumbai from May 18. Karthik Chandra Bhol would lead the team, which includes six from Sambalpur, four each from Bolangir and Cuttack, two from Nayagarh and one each from Phulbani, Balasore, Kalahandi and Sundargarh.
Odisha team:
Fagu Baskey (Bolangir), Sunil Oram (Sundargarh) (both Goalkeeper), Manas Swain (Balasore), Badha Hembram (Phulbani), Md Sajid, Karthik Chandra Bhol (Captain), Bishnu Minz, Fagu Hansda, Raman Mallah, Fakir Oram (all Sambalpur), Bipin Mahoto, Amar Oram (both Nayagarh), Pabitra Dissari (Kalahandi), Krishna Kerketta, Amar lakra, Sanjay lakra (all Bolangir), Rajesh Nayak, Bikash Kumar Sahoo, Rajesh Kumar Sahoo, Bijaya Behera (all Cuttack).