Santosh to cross swords with Satirtath
Bhubaneswar: Santosh Mallick would meet Satirtath Pattnaik in the singles final of the All Odisha Open Tennis Championship at Bhubaneswar Club tennis ground on Sunday. In the semifinal, Santosh and Satistha edged out Asutosh Das and Sunil Palai by 6-2,6-3 and 6-2,6-1 respectively. Results: Men’s open singles (Semi- Final); Santosh Mallick bt Asutosh Das 6-2,6-3, Satirtath Pattnaik bt Sunil Palai 6-2,6-1. Mixed doubles (Semi Final); Asutosh Das and Alisha Samal bt Jayash Mangela and Koyal Mishra 9-2, Ajay Nishank and Shilpiswarupa Dash bt Trinath Jena and Swati Prusty 9-1. Senior men’s 40+ doubles: (1st Round); Top seed RN Senapati and Rajpal Singh bt R Mandal and Rajiv Sahu 7-1, Bimbadhara Behera and Pradosh Kumar Patra bt MJ Sai and Amitav Saran W/O, Deepak Deo and Gautam Rathore bt S Mishra and P Mohanty 7-1, Anup Guru and Rajat Nanda bt Santosh Mund and Ganeswar Patnaik 7-2, Viswanath R and SS Rath bt Akhil Das and RK Das, BK Nayak and Debasish Pattanayak bt Sibasish Behera and Dambru Sahu 7-1, Snehasish Behera and Prashant Nath bt Pandab Ch Das and SD Durga 7-1, Gangurar Dayal and Paresh Singh bt Arjun Agarwal and Sachin Khera 7-1, Jhadeswar Das and Tanmay Mishra bt Deepak MR and D Panmei 7-2, Mahendra Beck and Bhagabat Sahu bt Manoj Dash and Ranjan Mishra 7-5, SS Das Adhikary and J Ganta bt Babu Mohanty and Babu Naik W/O, Saswat Jena and Bandhu Mohanty bt GD lenka and GK Mohanty 7-0, Pradosh Mishra and Pravat Ranjan Mishra bt Gaurav Das and Navaratna Gothra 7-4, Dr Biswajit Mishra and BN Mohanty bt GC Bidika and IG Soren 7-0, Prakash Bhura and Vivek Tekriwal bt Manas Jena and Debasish Mohanty 7-0, Raj Kishore Behera and Nihar Ray bt Ajay Mahapatra and Ajay Sahu 7-4.
BBSR-A to meet Puri in Veterans Cricket final
Bhubaneswar : Puri would meet Bhubaneswar-A team in the final of the 2nd Inter District Veterans Cricket Tournament at IDCO Ground on Sunday, being organised by Veteran Cricket Association of Odisha. In the nail-biting semifinal match on Saturday, BBSR-A edged out Cuttack by three runs. Batting first, Manoj Chhabra of the winning team scored 47 runs and BBSR-A scored reached 116 runs for the loss of eight wickets in 20 overs. In reply, Amresh Mohanty and Manoj Chhabra scalped three and two wickets respectively and restricted Cuttack for 113 runs in 20 overs for the loss of nine wickets. For the all-round performance Manoj bagged the man of the match award. In another semifinal match of the day, the four-wicket haul by lingraj Sahoo of Bhubaneswar-B gone to vain as Puri defeated Bhubaneswar-B by 11 runs. Batting first, Puri scored 96 runs in 20 overs for the loss of six wickets. In reply, Bhubaneswar-B scored 85 runs in 20 overs by losing nine wickets. Brief score: Bhubaneswar-A 116/8 in 20 overs (Manoj Chhabra 47, Ashok Panda 22; SK Kannungo 2/26, Girija Sankar Mishra 2/30) beat Cuttack 113/9 in 20 overs (Girija Sankar Mishra 32, Sumanta Nayak 29, Amresh Mohanty 3/22, Manoj Chhabra 2/22) by 3 runs. Puri 96/6 in 20 overs (Depak Mohanty 20, Alok Das 18; lingaraj Sahoo 4/7, Padma Charan Rout 2/28)beat Bhubaneswar-B 85/9 in 20 overs (Ramesh Debata 28, Asit Patnaik 20; SP Nayak,R Mahakud, S Patnaik 2 wickets each) by 11 runs.
Delhi beat Odisha in U-19 Women’s one-day
Bhubaneswar: Delhi eves defeated Odisha by four wickets in the super-league round match of the All India U-19 Women’s One-day Tournament at Mumbai on Saturday. Winning the toss, Odisha elected to bat first, opener Pragyan Mohanty and Anjali Singh got a reasonable start and stitched 37 runs. But the discipline bowling line of Delhi, restricted Odisha for 96 runs in 44.4 overs. In reply, Delhi reached the winning target in 45.2 overs for the loss of six wickets. Brief score: Odisha 96/10 in 44.4 overs (Pragyan Mohanty 23; Vandana Chaturvedi 3/7, Vaishali Mathur 2/12, Ritu Singh 2/19) lost to Delhi 97/6 in 45.2 overs (laxmi Yadav 19; Sushree Pradhan 2/18, Rajashree Swain 2/18) by 4 wickets.