Floodlight for practice ground at Kalinga soon
Bhubaneswar: As only few days is ahead for the Hero Hockey Champions Trophy to be held at Kalinga Stadium here, the Sports and Youth Services Department officials working day and night to fulfill all the requirements of Hockey India to make the tournament grand success. After the assurance given by the Sports and Youth Services secretary Saswata Mishra the laying of turf has been started and the stitching and leveling would be finished within two-days.
Hockey India CEO Elena Norman suggested that the practice ground need floodlight. We have already started the work to provided light arrangement. We are going to spend Rs 1 crore to setup the floodlight in the practice ground, said Saswata. The vender will put up four high-mast floodlights with a capacity of 700 lux at the practice ground. We want to complete these projects before December 30 so that the hockey players would practices under light in the new ground. As on December 30 five countries will reach here and to accommodate five teams we are making the arrangement, added Saswata. Netherland would be the first team to reach here on November 27. The host India would reach on November 27. Argentina and Australia may reach on November 30. The neighboring Pakistan would reach on December 3. India will be playing their first match against Germany in the meet.
Hockey Champions Trophy ticket sale begins
Bhubaneswar: Sports and Youth Services secretary Saswata Mishra inaugurated the ticket counter for public here on Tuesday and the sales will start on Friday for the much-awaited Hero Hockey Champions Trophy to be held at Kalinga Stadium in here from December 6 to 14.The Kalinga Stadium has a seating capacity accommodating 7,000 spectators. The online ticket sales have been started from October 27, with the official ticketing partner of the event TicketGenie (www.ticketgenie.in).The price of session tickets starts at Rs. 20, 50, 100, 200 and 1000 with each session tickets entitling the spectator to watch two matches. A total of 20 outlets will be selling the tickets across the city, which includes six Café Coffee Day outlets, six outlets of The Moblie Store and eight individual stores spread out across Bhubaneswar, hence ensuring that the tickets are easily available to the fans.West Stand ground floor first and second session for all league matches ticket will be Rs 1000 each, similarly the quarterfinal and semifinal match for each session will be Rs 1,000 and the final match wicket will be Rs 1,000.West Stand and East Stand first floor tickets for fist session in league round matches will be Rs 50 and Rs 20 respectively. Similarly, the second session tickets rate will be Rs 100 and Rs 50 respectively. The nine-day event will see eight top-ranked international teams fighting it out for the title, playing a total of 24 matches. The tournament schedule is set with two pools of eight teams followed by quarterfinals, semifinals, classification and medal matches. Pool A will feature Australia, England, Belgium and Pakistan while India is placed in Pool B alongside the Netherlands, Germany and Argentina. Within a year this is the third international hockey tournament which India is hosting and is a matter of great pride for us.The opening day of the event will feature all eight teams including India who will open its campaign against Germany, followed by Argentina (December 7) and the Netherlands (December 9).
AG, EcoR enter State TT semifinals
Bhubaneswar: Accountant General (AG) Odisha and East Coast Railway entered the semifinals of the mens team event in the inaugural day of the prestigious 20th YMCA Inter District and Odisha State Table Tennis Championship at Sachin Tendulkar Indoor Hall in Cuttack on Thursday. In the four-day-long meet total 14 events will be held including two team events. This championship is organised by Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA), Cuttack; under the aegis of Odisha State Table Tennis Association (OSTTA). Altogether 210 players; including 60 women, form 17 districts and institutions are taking part. The championships was formally inaugurated by Ashirbad Behera; Secretary; Odisha Olympic Association as the chief guest. Raj Ballov Mohanty, President, YMCA, M Satyaratan, Secretaty, YMCA Board member Ashish Kumar Das, Sports Secretary Sushanta Kar; Rabindra Kumar Parida; Secretary,Odisha State Table Tennis Association, Chitta Ranjan Mohanty. Vice President, OSTTA, Nihar Mishra, Treasurer; Results: In Junior Boys Team Event : Cuttack A beat Angul by 3-0 & Bhubaneswar by 3-1 in Group leagues & Play their 3rd march with Khurda. YMCA,Cuttack-B lost with Bhubaneswar by 3-1 Games & lost to Khurda by 3-2 games in Group league matches & RSP,Rourkela Beat Bolangir by 3-0 & Bargarh by 3-0 & KIIT by 3-1 games in group league matches.