WB eves beat Odisha in Women’s One-day final
Bhubaneswar : West Bengal (WB) eves emerged champion by defeating Odisha by seven wickets in the Plate-A women’s one-day cricket match at Vijayawada on Tuesday. Being invited to batfirst, Odisha lost wickets in regular intervals, lost top five batswomen at 52 runs. J Goswami and SK Parida of West Bengal scalped two wickets each and restricted Odisha innings for 115 runs in 50 overs for the loss of nine wickets. Chasing the small target, DB Shaw of the West Bengal smashed 54 runs and helped the team total reach winning target in 35 overs for the loss of three wickets. Brief score: Odisha 115/9 in 50 overs (P Mohanty 34; J Goswami 2/16, SK Parida 2/21) lost to West Bengal 116/3 in 35 overs (DB Shaw 54) by 7 wickets.
Rural sports meet held
Talcher: To promote rural sports events and encourage hidden sports talent of the students of rural areas NTPC organised 11th Rural Cultural Meet was held on December 15 and 16. The event witnessed participation of 26 schools and around 550 school children participated in nine events. The events were 100,200,400 metre ,relay race (4x100 mtr),discuss throw and javelin throw, long jump ,short put , organised during the two days event. The meet was inaugurated by Umesh Prasad Pani ,Director(HR),NTPC limited in presence of Arvind Kumar ,Regional Executive Director(East II) , VB Fadnavis,Executive Director,NTPC Kaniha and MSD Bhattamisra ,GM(HR),East II and along with senior executives of the station. Kalpana Dash, mountaineer and first odia woman to scale Mount Everest was special invitee of the event.
Natraj hits 4th successive ton in Ranji trophy
Bhubaneswar : Despite Natraj Behera’s fourth successive century Odisha could reach just 345 for eight at the end of the third day’s play, even as Gujarat remained favourites to take the first innings lead in their Ranji Trophy Group A match in Motera, Ahamedabad on Tuesday. Odisha are trailing Gujarat by 134 runs with only two wickets remaining. At stumps, Basant Mohanty and Jayanta Behera were unbeaten on one and 0, respectively. Resuming on 111 for one in pursuit of Gujarat’s first innings total of 479, Natraj Behera moved from his overnight unbeaten 64 to complete his century. He had scored 158 against Delhi and twin hundreds against Mumbai. Behera along with Govind Podder (43) added 66 runs to the overnight score before he got out for a 224-ball 106, studded with 19 fours. Podder then continued in the able company of skipper Biplab Samantray (46) and the duo shared a 69-run stand for the third wicket. After Samantray’s departure, Odisha kept on losing a couple of wickets in quick successions every time. For Gujarat, Rakesh Dhurv was the pick of the bowlers with figures of four for 78, while Jasprit Bumrah chipped in with three for 76. Brief scores: Gujarat 1st innings: 479 for eight decl Vs Odisha 345/8 in 138 overs (Natraj Behera 106, Biplab Samantray 46; Rakesh Dhurv 4/78, Jasprit Bumrah 3/76).
All India Inter-Zone Badminton tourney begins
Bhubaneswar : All India Inter-zone University Badminton (Men and Women) Championship inaugurated at KIIT University here on Tuesday, being organised by KIIT University and supported by Associations of Indian Universities, has been scheduled to be held for 24th to 29th December. Altogether 40 teams from 31 University of 17 States are participating in the six-day-long meet. The East Zone teams are Dibrugarh University (Assam), Jadavpur University (West Bengal), Manipur University (Manipur), Mizoram University (Mizoram), TM Bhagalpur University (Bihar) and University of Calcutta (West Bengal) have participated, while from West Zone GT University (Ahmadabad, Gujarat), Ml Sukhadiya University (Udaipur, Rajasthan), MS University (Baroda, Gujarat), SGB Amravati University (Maharashtra) , Shivaji University (Kolhapur, Maharashtra), University of Kota (Rajasthan), University of Mumbai (Maharashtra), VNSG University (Surat, Gujarat) are participating. Similarly, Aligarh Muslim University (Uttar Pradesh), GND University (Amritsar, Punjab), lovely Professional University (Phagwara, Punjab), Punjab University ( Chandigarh, Punjab), Punjabi University (Patiala, Punjab), University of Delhi are in the North Zone and Andhra University (Visakhapatnam, AP), Anna University (Chennai, Tamil Nadu), Bangalore University (Karnataka), Chochin University of Science & Technology (Kerala), Jain University (Bangalore, Karnataka), JNT University (Hyderabad), MG University (Kottayam, Kerala), Osmania University (Hyderabad) and University of Kerala (Kerala) are in the South Zone. Devi Ahilya University (Indore, MP), KIIT University (Bhubaneswar) are representing the Central Zone. The Tournament was inaugurated by Dr A Samanta, Founder KIIT and KISS in presence of Prof Jayanta Parida, Director, Sports Council, Utkal University, Dr Sasmita Samanata, Registrar, KIIT University and Dr. Sucheta Priyabadini, Joint Registrar, KIIT.
TFB to host 3X3 basketball meet on Dec 29
Bhubaneswar : Together for Basketball (TFB) a city-based organisation for promotion of basketball is going to organise one-day 3X3 Basketball Tournament at Indoor Hall complex Basketball ground, Unit-I here on December 29. The intention of the tournament is to promote and popularise the newly introduced format of the game among the young players. The matches will be played in a league cum knock out format and there will be one open group of team consisting of four players. All the current and senior basketball players, members and sports loving persons are requested to participate and encourage the players, said convener Prasant Nayak.