Prisons beat Gridco in HoD Cup cricket
Bhubaneswar: Nihar Ranjan Jena of Odisha Prisons smashed 55 runs and powered the team to beat Gridco by 79 runs in the league round match of the Heads of Department (HoD) Cup Cricket Tournament at Kalinga Stadium here on Friday. Nihar bagged the man of the match award. In another league match, batting first, Director Agriculture and Food Production scored 186 runs in 20 overs by losing four wickets. Debasish Pattanaik scored highest 76 runs. In reply, S Ali Jawad scalped four wickets by giving only six runs and restricted Post Master General (PMG) for 79 runs in 20 overs by losing nine wickets. Debasish of the winning team received the man of the match award. Atish Ray, Pradeep Jena, Susant Dash and lingaraj Sahoo were the umpires conducted the matches.
Brief score: Director Agriculture and Food Production 186/4 in 20 overs (Debasish Pattanaik 76, Pitabas Pradhan 39; Anupam Mohapatra 2/26) beat Post Master General 79/9 in 17.2 overs (Trilochan Patra 28; S Ali Jawad 4/6) by 110 runs.
Odisha Prisons 187/7 in 20 overs (Nihar Ranjan Jena 55, Tapas Patra 38; Subrat Das 2/21) beat Gridco108/9 in 20 overs (Subrat Das 30; Santosh Sarangi 2/25, Mahes Das 2/13) by 79 runs.
STATE karatekas bag silver medal in National meet
Bhubaneswar: Odisha karatekas bagged silver medal in the team kata event of the National Karate Championship held at Delhi on Friday. Dipak Samantary, Krishna Sikari and Toofan Badatya of Odisha won the silver medal in the men’s team kata event, informed Odisha State Karate Association secretary Hari Prasad Pattanaik.
Nayagarh get lead in U-16 Inter-dist cricket
Bhubaneswar: Nayagarh scripted a 123 runs lead against Puri by day one stumps in the Inter-District U-16 Cricket Tournament at Sunshine Ground in Cuttack on Friday. Batting first, Puri scored 83 runs in 44.4 overs. Suman Pradhan and Sumit Kumar Moharana of Nayagarh scalped four wickets each. In reply, Anupam Sarangi smashed 78 runs and well supported by Sidharth Shankar Behera who contributed 41 runs and Nayagarh total reached 206 runs in 50.5 overs.
In another high scoring innings, Balasore declared their first innings for 310 runs in 83.4 overs. Ronald Das (73), Subasish Panda (66), Soumya Ranjan Das (61) and Arindam Chakraborty (58) helped the Balasore to put a huge first innings total. In reply Khurda scored 33 runs by the end of day one.
Ravenshaw Ground-I:Cuttack-A 256/10 in 78.2 overs (Pradipta Dash 51, Saswat Mohanty 47, Somen Chand 42; Hitesh Chaparia 3/50, Ajit Nayak 2/55) Vs Bargarh 27/2 in 16 overs (Shabaz Zamal 7 n.o;).
Nimpur Ground: Bhadrak 224/10 in 78 overs (Kshyama Sagar Bal 96, Abinash Singh 36, Ramachandra Sahu 24; M Prasanta 3/12, Suryakanta Samal 3/71) Vs BBSR-B 79/8 in 23 overs (Girija Mishra 21; Ramachandra Sahoo 2/8, Harshit Rathod 2/23, Rahul Das 2/26).
Sunshine Ground: Puri 83/10 in 44.4 overs (Ganesh Mallick 23; Suman Pradhan 4/19, Sumit Kumar Moharana 4/21) Vs Nayagarh 206/10 in 50.5 overs (Anupam Sarangi 78, Sidharth Shankar Behera 41, Subrat Manna 28; Ritesh Kumar Panda 4/48, Vishal Kumar Behera 2/41, Rameswar Mahala 2/47) lead by 123 runs.
Bidanasi Ground: Balasore declared 310/5 in 83.4 overs (Ronald Das 73, Subasish Panda 66, Soumya Ranjan Das 61, Arindam Chakraborty 58; Santosh Jena 2/56) Vs Khurda 33/0 in 14 overs (Nikhil Nayak 19 n.o;).
Khitindra Memorial U-15 Cricket from Jan 26
Bhubaneswar: Saheed Sporting Club will organise the All Odisha Khitindra Kumar Mohanty Memorial U-15 Cricket Tournament at Saheed Sporting Ground here from January 26 to February 2, informed organizing committee secretary Bandan Mohanty in a Press Meet here on Friday. Altogether eight teams would participate in the knockout round matches in two groups. Top two teams of each group will enter the semifinal round. The champion team would receive the trophy along with cash prize of Rs 25,000 and the runners-up to be richer by Rs 15,000. In the individual categories, man of the series would get Rs 2,500, man of the final, best batsman, bowler, fielder and wicketkeeper would get Rs 1,500 and man of the match of every match would get Rs 1,000 each. Among others, Saheed Sporting Club secretary Pankaj Pattnaik, coach Radhaswayma Nayak, treasure Nikunja Mohanty and former Ranji player Saroj Barik were present.
Group-A: Saheed Sporting, Town Club, Oscar Sporting (all Bhubaneswar), Juvenile Sporting (Cuttack).
Group-B: Raising Student, (Cuttack), Rameswar Sporting, Mukteswar Cricket Club, Paramount Sporting (all Bhubaneswar).