BAA to conduct cricket camp from May 5
Bhubaneswar: Bhubaneswar Athletic Association is all set to organise a six-weeklong Cricket Summer Coaching Camp at unit – 1 High School Ground from May 5. Eminent cricket coach lalit Mohanty would conduct the camp. With an objective of identifying the young cricket talents, the camp will be held for boys U-14 and above 15 years and girls. The morning session would be for boys U-14 and girls and the afternoon session meant for boys above 15 years only. As per the schedule the first phase will be for 10 days where the focus will be on swing and pace bowling, second phase will be for spinners and last phase for batting technique. The camp would give emphasis on physical fitness and fielding practice for the all phases of training. The equipments to be provided by Bhubaneswar Athletic Association. BAA has also taken up to prepare a Cricket pitch for the camp as per the advice of the coach. Sri. Mohanty. Interested boys and girls can contact BAA secretary SR Parija and coach lalita Mohanty in the number 9861065198 and 9437323915 respectively.
Odisha beat Mizoram in National Women Football
Bhubaneswar: In Odisha’s inaugural match the women team edged out Mizoram by 3-0 goals in the 20th Senior Women’s National Football Championship in Assam on Monday. In the 2nd minute Jabamanai Soren opened the account for the State by taking a long range shooting of 15yds .After the change of sides, Gayatri Mallick increased the lead in the 62nd minute by taking long range shooting of 25 yds and in 75th minute Menaka Malik finally made it 3-0 in favor of Odisha. Odisha would meet Haryana on Wednesday. It is a good beginning in the tournament we put our marking with a winning note, said coach Sradhanjali Samantary.
Cuttack-A leads in Kalahandi Cup cricket
Cuttack-A scripted a 86 runs first inning lead against Rourkela in the Senior Inter-District Kalahandi Cup Cricket Tournament at Ravenshaw Ground in Cuttack on Monday. In reply to Rourkela’s first innings score of 276 runs, Cuttack-A added 125 runs by losing six wickets to their overnight score of 237 runs wickets and declared the innings for 362 runs by losing nine wickets. All credit goes to Biplab Samanatry who smashed 129 runs. In reply, Rourkela scored 94 runs in the second innings by losing three wickets at day three stumps in their four day long match. Brief Score: At Ravenshaw Ground: Rourkela 276/10 in 105.5 overs (Govind Poddar 112, Ranjit Singh 82; Deepak Behera 4/45, Dhiraj Singh 3/33, Biplab Samantray 3/59) and 94/3 in 48 overs (Alok Pradhan 46 n.o; Niranjan Behera 2/53) Vs Cuttack-A declared 362/9 in 102.1 overs (Bikash Pati 64, Niranjan Behera 66, Biplab Samantray 129, Aravind Singh 40, Bibhudutta Panda 32; Asish Mitra 5/37, Alok Pradhan 2/53).