HAl Sports Club felicitates karateka Payal Baral
Bhubaneswar: Hindustan Aeronautics limited (HAl) Sports Club and Utkal Karate School of Sunabedha felicitated Karateka Payal Baral on Saturday. Payal who won bronze medal in the girls 14-15 year’s age category kata event in the 26th All India Karate Championship at Talkotra Stadium in Delhi being organised by All India Karate-Do Association from September 13 to 16. HAl GM Tapan Ray, HAl Sports Club president Tanver AlM, secretary SN Panda, Setam Engineering College chairman Krushna Singh, UKS president Manoj Patnaik,vice-president DK Mahapatra, sensai Patra and coach Mahesh Baral were present. On the felicitateion ceremony Krushna Singh offered a free-site for Payal in the engineering college. The HAl official Chittarnjan Nath received black belt.
Bhajji scalps 6 wickets, restrict Odisha for 205
Bhubaneswar: Eager to make a comeback to the national team, Punjab skipper Harbhajan Singh on Sunday returned with a sensational six-wicket haul to skittle out Odisha for 205 in their first innings on the opening day of a Group A Ranji Trophy match at Mohali. Harbhajan produced a brilliant display of spin bowling to return with figures of 28.2-12-54-6 at the Punjab Cricket Association stadium. leading from the front, the 33-year-old showed once again that he sill has a lot of fire left in him as he scalped the wickets of Girjia Rout (38), Govind Podder (42), Biplab Samantray (30), Halhadar Das (0), Alok Mangaraj (4) and Dhiraj Singh (0). Harbhajan’s six-wicket haul will hold him in good stead when the selectors meet to pick the squad for the two-match Test series against the West Indies to be played next month. Jiwanjot Singh (6) and R Inder Singh (5) were at the crease as Punjab reached 11 for no loss at the draw of stumps. Earlier, Harbhajan justified his decision to field first with his exploits. He was supported by pacers Sandeep Sharma (2/49) and Siddarth Kaul (1/38). Kaul struck first when he dismissed opener Natraj Behera in the 15th over to reduce Odisha to 47 for one. Sandeep then piled up more agony on the visitors when he ran out N Behera in the 31st over with the scoreboard reading 66 for two. Harbhajan then started weaving his magic as he got rid of the opener Rout before the India spinner then struck in the 58th over, dismissing Samantray, who was caught behind by Uday Kaul. He continued making life difficult for the visitors who looked down the barrel when Podder too was sent back to the pavilion by Harbhajan in the 70th over. Abhilash Mallick tried to held on to one side with a hard-fought 110-ball 32 but Odisha could not put the brakes on the slide and were dismissed in 83.2 overs in the end.
Brief score : Odisha 204/10 in 83.2 overs (Girija Rout 42, Govind Poddar 42, Biplab samantary 30, Abhilash Mallick 32 n.o; Harbhajan Singh 6/54, SG Sharma 2/49) Vs Punjab 11/0.
Odisha eves win in EZ one-day cricket
Bhubaneswar: In a low scoring match Odisha Eves edged out Jharkhand by five wickets in the Women’s U-19 East Zone (EZ) One-day Cricket Tournament at Guwahati on Sunday. Odisha registered their second win in a row and bagged eight points. Winning the toss, Jharkhand elected to bat first, Bandana Hanuman of the wining team bagged three wicxkets without giving a single run and her-mate Swagatika rath and Sipra rout claimed two wickets each and restricted Jharkhand innings for 41 runs in 38 overs. In reply, Odisha reached the winning target for the loss of five wickets in 25 overs. Earlier Odisha defeated Tripura by 25 runs in the inaugural match.
Brief Score: Jharkhand 41/10 in 38 overs (Bandana Hanuman 3/0, Swagatika Rath 2/9, Sipra Rout 2/8) lost to Odisha 42/5 in 25 overs (Pragyan Mohanty 11 n.o; DR Prasad 3/12) by 5 wickets.