Black-marketing of tickets rampant in the city
Bhubaneswar: Eyeing the interest of the city sports lovers the Hockey India reduce the price of the Hero Hockey Champions Trophy tickets but few unscrupulous people start black-marketing of the tickets in front of the venue here on Saturday. The HI has fixed the price of the West Stand tickets `100 and similarly the East Stand tickets rate ` 50. But the black marketers took the advantage of the interest of the people and sold the `50 and `100 tickets at the rate of `300 and `500 respectively. I had been to the booking counter which was in front of the Kalinga Stadium on Thursday at 11 o’clock. The people sitting in the counter they told me that all the tickets for the India matches were sold out, but on the inaugural day many people are standing with extra tickets and offering in a higher price, said Bhabani Sankar Mohanty. For the first time Odisha is hosting such big international sporting event. The officials and the commissionerate police should keep their eyes open to stop all these unfair practices, said a hockey player.
Odisha eves beat Punjab in 1-day league Cricket
Bhubaneswar: A five-wicket haul by Madhusmita Behera powered the Odisha team to beat Punjab by 11 runs in the Senior Women One-day Elite ‘B’ Group league cricket match at Bandra in Mumbai on Saturday. Winning the toss Odisha elected to bat first, international acclaimed opener Madhuri Meheta scored 23 runs and put a platform for the team. Kumudini contributed 49 runs and the team total reached 143 in 50 overs by the loss of nine wickets. In reply, Madhusmita bagged five wickets by giving only 24 runs and restricted Punjab innings for 132 runs in 49.2 overs.
Brief Score: Odisha 143/9 in 50 overs (Madhuri Meheta 23, Kadambini 49, Subhashree Diyabadarshi 21 n.o; Sneh Rana 2/25, Praveen Khan 2/31) beat Panjab 132/10 in 49.2 overs ( Reva Arora 30, Sneh Rana 22; Madhusmita Behera 5/24, Sushree Diyabadarshi 2/19) by 11 runs.
OP Jindal School Annual meet held
Angul: Riti house stealing the show and emerged champion and Shakti House as runners up of the day-long OP Jindal School Athletic Meet was kicked off by hoisting of school flag by the chief guest and rendition of school song by the students, which was followed by a torch rally and march past by the pupils. Inaugurating the event, Damodar Mittal, Executive Vice President, JSPl, Angul, said, “Competition is the heart and soul of sports. It helps the students to remain fit and energetic, besides providing a healthy platform for the children’s recreation.”
“It also helps establish brotherhood and enhances fellow-feeling among the students,” he added. Throwing light on the importance of sports and games in a student’s life to enjoy a healthy body and mind, Chhanda Charana Das, Principal, OPJS, advised the children to participate more and more in such events enthusiastically. Besides the athletic events, the students also presented various items including rhythmic dance, rhythmic drill, pyramid, aerobic exercise etc for the entertainment of the huge gathering of parents, teachers and students under the guidance of sports instructor Rishi Kumar Agasti and yoga instructor Rahul Kumar. Altogether 400 students from different houses of the school Bhakti, Shakti, Mukti and Riti were participated. Chief guest of the valedictory function Goutam Chandra, EVP, Power Plant distributed the prizes Among the other dignitaries present were Ashish Pandey, DGM, PMG, Captain Ajit Singh, Chief Security Officer, JSPl Dr. Saroj Kumar Mahapatra, VP (HR, P&A, JSPl), graced the occasion as guest of honour, Sangeeta Sharma and Imran Parwez.
Sports Hostel enter Tamando Cup Football semis
Bhubaneswar: Sports Hostel Cuttack barged into the semifinals of the All Odisha 23rd Tamando Cup Football Tournament at the city outskirt on Saturday, by defeating defending champion Kishor Club by 2-1 goals, being organised by Shiva Sakti Club of Tamando. Bikash Padihari of the winning team draw the first blood in the 26th minute, but Raisen Tudu of the Kishor Club netted the equaliser in the 42nd minutes. After the lemon breaks, both the team started the attacking game plane, in the 68th minute Sports Hostel conformed their victory by the goal of Sunil Sardar.
Khurda District Sports Officer lalit Mohanty presented the man of the match award to Sunil Sardar. Siba Prasad Dash, Priyabrata Bahinipati, Susanta Kumar Mishra and Abhinash Pattnaik were officiated the match. East Coast Railway would meet Home Guard team of Cuttack on Sunday.
Visakhapatnam lift All India Ports Cricket trophy
Paradip: Visakhapatnam Port defeated Mumbai Port by five wickets in the final bout and emerged champion of the 34th All India Major Port Cricket Championship, which concluded at Gopabandhu Stadium in Paradip on Saturday. Being invited to bat first, Jamsedkar and Ashish Mohadeswar of Mumbai scored 45 and 44 runs respectively and Mumbai Port scored 153 runs in 20 overs by losing eight wickets. Chasing the target, M.Satyanarayan scored unbeaten 58 runs and well supported by H Vatekar contributed 39 runs, Visakhapanam Port scored 155 for the loss of five wickets in the stipulated overs heating a six to the last ball of the match when Vizag was requiring five runs to win the match. Attending the valedictory function as chief guest PPT chief SS Mishra thanked all the players to have disciplined game during the championship and also thanked the office bearers of Gopabandhu Kreeda Sansad of PPT for organising the championship smoothly. Traffic Manager KK Sahu presented welcome address. SC Mohapatra,Secretary, Dr SK Nayak, Chief Medical Officer and AK Jain, Chief Engineer were present on the dias on this occasion. Mishra handed over the championship trophy to Visakhapanam Port and Runners-up trophy to Mumbai Port. Goa Port was adjudged as 2nd Runners up of the championship. M Satyanarayan and H Vatekar of Vizag got man of the final and best batsman award respectively. Yogesh Dicholkar of Mumbai got best bowler award and Sanjiv Srivastav of Mumbai Port got player of the tournament award for his highest 134 runs and five wickets in the tournament. In the end Secretary, GKS Rabi Das tendered vote of thanks.