Krishnendu shines in U-16 Inter-district cricket
Bhubaneswar : Krishnendu shines in U-16 Inter-district cricket In reply to Jajpur’s 77 runs first innings target, an unbeaten double hundred by Krishnendu Mohapatra of Bhadrak powered the team to script a huge 249 runs lead with seven wickets in hand by the end of day one of the U-16 Inter-District Cricket Tournament at Bidanashi Ground in Cuttack on Tuesday. In another super league round match at Nimpur Ground, chasing the first innings score of 93 runs set by Khurda, Bhubaneswar-A gathered 78 runs lead by losing five wickets.
Brief Score: Ravenshaw Ground – I : Cuttack-B 173/10 in 65 overs (Bhakta Bandhu Rout 72 n.o; Bhabani Sankar Kalia 32, Biswajit Das 29; Sumit Maharana 4/47, Sidheswar Dakua 3/20) Vs Nayagarh 73/2 in 26 overs (Anupam Sarangi 20). Nimpur Ground: Khurda 93/10 in 45.1 overs ( Amartya Samantaray 29, Debasish Samantaray 25 n.o; Soumya Sourav Kumar 6/22, Sourav Gouda 2/26) Vs BBSR-A 171/5 in 54 overs (Raghunath Malla 45, Farhat Khan 39, Bikram Swain 35; Santosh Jena 3/44). Sunshine Ground : Koraput 159/10 in 58.5 overs (Aditya Rout 57, Amit kumar Mohanty 20; Pabitra Mohanty 5/35, Rahul Choudhary 3/59) Vs Bargarh 141/3 in 38 overs (Hitesh Chaparia 40, Ashutosh Kumar 45 n.o; ). Bidanasi Ground : Jajpur 77/10 in 37.3 overs (Krishnendu Mohapatra 35; Harshit Rathore 4/29) Vs Bhadrak 326/3 in 66 overs (Kshyamasagar Bal 200 n.o; Avilash Rout 27, Abinash Singh 34 n.o; Nilesh Rout 2/38).
AG to meet Gallant in Srikrushna football final
Bhubaneswar : Accountant General of Odisha would cross swords with Gallant Club of Cuttack in the final of the 9th Srikrushna Biswal Memorial Football Tournament at Indira Maidan here on Thursday. In the last semifinal match on Tuesday, AG Odisha defeated Kishor Club by 1-0 goal. The experienced Bhabani Mohanty nailed the winning goal in the second minute of the play. Total eight selected teams participated in the league round matches. The champion team would receive a trophy along with cash prize of Rs 15,000 and the runners-up to be richer by Rs 10,000.
CESU win in HoD Cup cricket
Bhubaneswar : A half century haul by Bipin Nandi of CESU guided the team to beat Odisha Prison by four wickets in the league round match of the Heads of Department (HoD) Cup Cricket Tournament at Kalinga Stadium here on Tuesday. Batting first, Odisha Prison scored 124 runs in 20 overs by losing nine wickets. Tejaswar Sahoo scored highest 38 runs. In reply, Bipin smashed 61 runs and helped the team to reach the winning target in 18 overs by losing six wickets. Atish Ray and Pradeep Jena were conducted the matches as umpire. Bipin of the winning team bagged man of the match award.
Brief score: Odisha Prison 124/9 in 20 overs (Tejaswar Sahoo 38; Santanu Behera 3/24) lost to CESU125/6 in 18 overs (Bipin Nandi 61; Sagar Gumansingh 3/25) by 4 wickets.
Prabodh likely to be the captain of Kalinga lancer
Bhubaneswar : We have not finalised who would be the skipper for the newly formed Idco-Mcl Kalinga lancer team. But I am hopeful that an Indian player would lead the team, said chief coach Terry Walsh on the day of his arrival in the city on Sunday. local favorite mid-fielder 28 years Prabodh Tirkey and New Zealander midfielder 33 years Ryan Jeffrey Archibald are the two strong contenders for the captainship. Probodh who played 160 international matches and lead the national team in the Asia cup 2007 and the team bagged the gold medal while, experienced Ryan played 280 international matches. Prabodh is having the knowledge of leading the national team and he is the experienced player among the Indian player, if any Indian to lead the team than Prabodh must be the right choice, said an insider. In modern sports, language is not a problem for any players. Everybody understands English through out the glob. Here in our team it is not a barrier for communication. The attitude is the important component to bind the team and to grow like a team, said Walsh.
Natraj to get Maruti Estate cricketer award
Bhubaneswar : Dependable batsman Rourkela lad Natraj Behere would receive the 22nd Saheed Sporting –Maruti Estate Cricketer of the Year award for the year of 2013, informed Saheed Sporting secretary Pankaj Patnaik. Behera who was scored highest runs in the Ranji trophy-2013 season. He smashed four century in this year. Out of six matches he played 10 innings and scored 584 runs in average of 64.88 runs and maintained a strike rate of 51.86. With the brilliant performance he deserves the cricketer of the year award which carries a Cash award of Rs 25,000. Behera scored first century against Delhi (158 runs) at Sambalpur, another two tons against Mumbai (130,127 runs) and the fourth century against Gujarat (106 runs) at Ahmadabad. Journalists Sanatan Pani, Sushanta Mohanty, Sambit Mohapatra, Suresh Swain, Sanjib Biswal, Umakanta Mishra, D Niranjan Reddy, Maruti Estate managing director Jitendra Prasad Singh and Saheed Sporting secretary Pankaj Patnaik were the jury members and unanimously finalised Natarj Behera for the award.