Cricket Tourney For Visually Impaired Begins
Bhubaneswar: The 14th Sakuntala Mishra memorial cricket tournament of the visually impaired inaugurated by the international cricketer RP Singh at KD Sing Babu Stadium of lucknow on Wednesday. There are 12 teams including Odisha are participating in the tournament. The tournament will conclude on February 15. Total 12 teams divided into four groups would play the league round matches. Top team from each group will qualify for the semi finals. Team Odisha, Uttar Pradesh and Kerala are in group A. Odisha will play its first league match against the defending champion Uttar Pradesh at Chok Stadium lucknow at 9 am on Thursday and the second league with Kerala on Friday in the same ground. The team Odisha looks stronger with international player Jafar, Sukhram, Pankaj and three young debutant players like Biju Sing, Nakula Gadanayak and Gananidhi Sing. The team Odisha: Mohammed Jafar Iqbal Captain, Sukhram Majhi Vice Captain, Pankaj Bhue, lal Prasad Soren, Bikash Sahoo, Sukadev Soren, Seikh Misbahur Rehaman, Rajiv lochan Sahoo, Kalia Pradhan Raghuram Nayak, Tapan Kumar Gauda, Biju Sing, Nakula Gadnayak, Gananidhi Sing, Jogendra Jani (manager),Chandrasekhar Patnayak (coach).
KPl 8th Edition from February 13
Bhubaneswar: The 8th KIIT Premier league (KPl) All India (day and night) T-20 Cricket Tournament will be conducted from February 13 to 19. The tournament will be played in the Cricket Stadium of KIIT. All matches will be played as per T-20 format on turf wicket on league basis in floodlight. The tournament will be inaugurated on February 13. An exhibition match between Odia Cine Stars is the main attraction of the inaugural session. Winner will bag trophy and a cash prize of Rs. 2 lakh, while runner’s up will get Rs. 1.5 lakh. Besides, there are plenty of individual cash prizes to be awarded on the final day.
KPl has the distinction of being the highest prize money tournament in the history of university sports in India. Teams from 12 universities from all parts of India are participating. Teams are divided into four groups.
Group- A: Delhi Technological University, Delhi; Goutam Buddha University, Noida; KIIT University, Bhubaneswar.
Group-B: Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi; Andhra University, Hyderabad; Utkal University, Bhubaneswar.
Group-C: Jain University, Bangalore; Al-Falah University, Faridabad; Ravenshaw University, Cuttack.
Group-D: Delhi University, Delhi; SRM University, Chennai; O.U.A.T. Bhubaneswar.
TFA enters Tata Utkalika Football semis
Bhubaneswar: Tata Football Academy (TFA) entered the semifinal of Tata Utkalika Cup Football Tournament by defeating host Unit-6 Athletic Association by 4-2 goals in tie-breaker at Unit-6 High School Ground here on Wednesday. In nail biting quarterfinal match ended in goalless draw in the stipulated time. Ronaldo Siakham, Vishal Das, Konsmam Chinglensana and Alban Domlingh of TFA successfully converted their penalty kicks. However, only two players Jay Ram Munda and Rameswar Padhy of Unit-6 were converted their kicks into goal. Rameswar of the winning team bagged the man of the match award. Siba Panda, Prakash das, Chandrakant Barik and Sudip Das were conducted the match as referees. In the quarterfinal match on Thursday, Odisha Police would meet SAI both of Cuttack teams.
Inter -School Kabaddi Tournament concluded
Rourkela: The ‘Samvardhan Rural Inter School Kabaddi Tournament’ was organized by the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Department of Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) at the Bisra High School, Jodabandh on February 9 and 10. GS Prasad, CEO, Rourkela Steel Plant was the chief guest of the concluding ceremony. Manjari Prasad,
President, Deepika Mahila Sanghati and many senior officers of the plant were also present on the occasion. Prasad presented the prizes to the winners of the Boy’s category while Prasad handed over the prizes to the winners of the Girl’s category and mementoes to the match officials. It is worth mentioning that the Samvardhan Rural Inter School Kabaddi Tournament is another sporting initiative of RSP under its CSR interventions to promote sports in the peripheral villages of Rourkela. A total of 16 teams including eight boys’ teams and eight girls’ teams participated in the event. In the boy’s category Tendra High School team emerged Champion by defeating the Bisra High School, Jodabandh team. Amongst the girls the Government Girl’s High School, Bonei emerged triumphant after defeating Bisra High School, Jodabandh in the final match. Each of the winning teams was awarded a cash prize of Rs. 4000 and a trophy and runners-up teams were presented Rs. 3500 each.
BDA,NHPl win in HoD Cup Cricket tourney
Bhubaneswar: Bhubaneswar Development Authority (BDA) and Neelachal Hospital Privet limited (NHPl) defeated OTv and Joyti Group by nine and eight wickets respectively in the HoD Cup Cricket Tournament at Kalinga Stadium here on Wednesday, being organised by Odisha Heads of Department. Dillip Kanhar of BDA scored 53 runs and Gouri Sankar Biswal of NHPl scored 61 runs and guided their respective teams to script convincing victories and bagged the man of the match awards. Prdeep Jena, Riaiat Ali, Ahinul Haq and Susanta Dash were conducted the matches as umpire. Brief Score: OTv 122/9 in 20 overs (Md Aziz 27, lalatendu Sahoo 24; SS Mohanty 3/24) lost to BDA 123/1 in 15.3 overs (Dillip Kanhar 60, Jaganath Jhali 44) by 9 wickets. Joyti Group 147/6 in 20 overs (Badal Mohapatra 53, Dibya Panda 41; Manoj Barik 3/20) lost to Neelachal Hospital 148/2 in 17.5 overs (Gouri Sankar Biswal 61, Abhinab Ghose 54) by 8 wickets.
MCC wins NM Bhuyan Cricket Inaugural
Bhubaneswar: Host Mukteswar Cricket Club (MCC) defeated Paramount Sporting, Bhubaneswar teams, and entered quarterfinal rounds in the inaugural match of the 2nd NM Bhuyan and Sourav Mohanty Memorial Cricket Tournament at BJB College Ground here on Wednesday, being organised by MCC. Winning the toss MCC elected to field first, Sourav Gauda and Debasish Samantary of Paramount scored 50 and 47 runs respectively and team scored 205 runs in 39.4 overs. In reply, Sunil lenka (30), Soubhagya Mohanty (30), Rakesh Mohapatra (42) and Chandramans Biswal scored unbeaten 31 runs and Mukteswar reached the winning target for the loss of eight wickets in 38.3 overs. Rakesh Mohapatra of the winning team bagged the man of the match award. Brief Score: Paramount Sporting 205/10 in 39.4 overs (Debasish Samantary 47, Sourav Gouda 50, Abhaya Mallick 35; Anurag Sarangi 2/48, Prabir Nayak 2/30, Aman Shastry 3/38) lost to Mukteswar Cricket Club 207/8 in 38.3 overs (Sunil lenka 30, Soubhagya Mohanty 30, Rakesh Mohapatra 42, Chandramans Biswal 31 n.o; Amitav Rout 2/28, Hitesh Nayak 2/51) by 2 wickets.
6 Odisha cricketers in 8th IPl auction list
Bhubaneswar: Numerous foremost players from across the world including six Odisha players will be up for grabs at the 2015 Pepsi IPl Player Auction to be held on February 16 at the ITC Gardenia, Bengaluru. Deepak Behera, Basant Mohanty, Nataraj Behera, Biplab Samantry, Surayakant Pradhan and Abhilas Mallick are the Odisha players included in the auction list, informed Odisha Cricket Association secretary Asirbad Behera. IPl 2015 Player Auction will mark the establishment of the countdown to the 8th edition of one of the most popular sporting tournament. The Franchises have return to the drawing board, reworked tactics and devised new strategies, over the earlier few months. They will have the chance to bid for some of the biggest names in the match. The 8th Edition will begin from April 8 and the final match to be held at Kolkata on May 24.
Deepak to get Cricketer of the Year award
Bhubaneswar: Dependable allrounder Deepak Behera would receive the 23nd Saheed Sporting – Maruti Estate Cricketer of the Year award for the year of 2014-15, informed Sahid Sporting secretary Pankaj Patnaik. Behera who bagged 33 wickets from eight matches of the Ranji trophy 2014-15 seasons and also scored 137 runs. In one match Behera claimed seven wickets and best of four wickets by giving only 22 runs
With the brilliant performance he deserves the cricketer of the year award which carries a cash award of Rs 31,000 and trophy. The women cricketer of the year award which claimed by international women cricketer Swagatika Rath, its carries a cash award of Rs 21,000 and a trophy. 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 the awards name.