Abdullah shines in Inter-School Cricket
Bhubaneswar : A five-wicket haul by Sk Abdullah of St Joshep High School powered the team to beat Stewart High School by 10 wickets in the 12th Bhubaneswar Inter School Cricket Tournament at Unit-II Girls High School on Saturday.Abdullah bagged five wickets and restricted Stewart School for 74 runs in 22 overs. In reply, A Pal of St Joshep scored an unbeaten 35 runs and the team reached the winning target in 9.3 overs without losing any wicket. Abdullah bagged the man of the match award. In other two matches, Baxi Jagabandu English Medium School (BJEM) defeated KIIT by three wickets and Gouri Sankar Residential School edged out Government Boys High School Unit-6 by 161 runs. Brief score: Stewart School 74/10 in 22 overs (A Nayak 10; Sk Abdullah 5/13) bt St Joshep High School 76/0 in 9.3 overs ( A Pal 35 n.o;) by 10 wickets. KIIT 108/10 in 19.4 overs (Arnab Mishra 26; Visal Singh 2/7, Omkar Sharma 2/32) lost to BJEM 109/7 in 18.1 overs (Farhat Khan 42 n.o; Suvankar Seth 3/14, Saurav Sahoo 3/26) by 3 wickets. Gouri Sankar Residential School 203/8 in 22 overs (Devdulal Das 68, Satya Omprakesh 47) bt Government High School 42/9 (Biswajit Mohanty 16 n.o;) by 161 runs.
Birla Tyres bag Inter-District Club Football title
Bhubaneswar : Birla Tyres of Balasore emerged champion by defeating Independent Sporting Club of Mayurbhanj by 1-0 goal in the final of the Inter District Club Championship-2013 (Kalinga Cup Qualifying Round), which concluded at Baripada in Mayurbhanj on Saturday. Binit Nayak of the winning team scored the all-important goal in the 44th minute. The officials who conducted the match were Bhanu Bouri, Sujit Patra, PK Pal and Nabin Nayak as referees.Sports and Youth Services Minister Ramesh Chandra Majhi distributed the trophies as the chief guest of the closing ceremony. Among others, Deputy speaker Sananada Marandi, Member of Parliament laxman Tudu, Collector Rajesh Pravakar and FAO vice-president Bhakta Ballav Das were present.
Manas, Sanjeeban joint leaders in State Open Chess
Bhubaneswar : Top seed Manas Parida and third seed Sanjeeban Nayak both of Bhubaneswar scored six points each by the end of sixth round in the State Open Chess Championship at Secretariat Recreation Club here on Saturday. They are closely followed by Birakishore Behera of Puri with 5.5 points. Altogether 12 players are jointly shared the third place with five points each. Braja Moharana, Anand Behera, Santosh sinha, Gangadhar Panda, Jatindra Sahu, Aditya Pattnaik, M Ranjan, Manas Singh, Natabara Das, Prakash sahoo, Tanmaya Dash and Sunil Panda are in third place. The tournament is conducted by Arati Bijoy Mohanty, Debasis Panigrahi and Pravat Kumar Nath.
Rishab, Akhil duo lift AITA Men’s doubles crown
Bhubaneswar : Rishab Rama and Akhil Reddy of Andhra Pradesh lifted the AITA Men’s Ranking Tennis men’s doubles crown defeating SD Prajwal Dev (Karnataka) and Rohit Sarwate (AP) 6-2, 7-5 in the final of the rain-interrupted tournament played at the SOA University Sports Complex here on Saturday. The match, which could not be played as Dev played the single’s final last evening, was held in bright sunshine and the duel continued for nearly 90 minutes.Rama and Reddy had beaten Manav Chakma (Assam) and Vikram B.S.Naidu (Kar) 6-3, 4-6, 10-8 in the semifinals played on Friday while Dev and Sarwate had outplayed Vaishnab Bendalam and Sajid Ur Rehman (both AP) 6-3, 6-1 to qualify for the final.