Jagula panchayat wins DPCl Cricket Tourney
Dhamra: The two-day long Annual DPCl Cricket Tournament was concluded on Saturday, being organised by Dhamra Port at Dhamra Fishing Harbour ground in which the IGP Jagula team won the trophy by defeating Dosinga Town Club team. In the final match Dosinga team decided to bat first and got all out in 10 overs by scoring 55 runs. The rival Jagula team won the match by scoring 56 runs in seven overs for the loss of six wickets. Secretary of Dhamra Fisherman Association Prafulla Kumar Jena and adviser Sudarshan lenka along with AGM of DPCl Himansu Shekhar Sahoo presented the trophies to winner and runner’s up teams. While Sunakar Jena of Jagula team became ‘man of the match’, the master blaster batsman of Dosinga team Rajesh Maity was declared ‘man of the series’. A player of Dhamra team Mohd Arif was awarded as best fielder and Dosinga team player Debashis Mohanty was given the prize for ‘best catch’ of the tournament. Eight cricket teams, one each from eight periphery panchayats of Dhamra Port, namely, Dosinga, Jagula, Dhamra, Kaithakhola, Karanjamal, Panchutikri, Karanapalli and Bansad played the tournament. The semi-final matches were played between Dhamra and Jagula and Panchutikri and Dosinga. Director of Dhamra Port Santosh Kumar Mohapatra inaugurated the tournament and presented cricket kits to all the participating teams. He was accompanied by other senior officials of the port including CEO SubratTripathy. The tournament began with a friendly match played between Dhamra Town Club and Dhamra Port team, wherein the Dhamra Town Club team defeated Dhamra Port team by six wickets.
BCC to meet Rising students
Bhubaneswar: Biswabharati Cricket Club (BCC) would cross swords with Rising Student both Cuttack teams in the final of the 2nd NM Bhuyan and Sourav Mohanty Memorial Cricket at BJB College Ground on Sunday. The semifinal match between Mukteswar and Risining Student on Saturday was decided on the basis of run rate due to the rain. Rising student won the match and entered the final. Winning the toss, host Mukteswar Cricket club scored 190 runs for the loss of seven wickets in 40 overs. In reply, Rising scored 117 runs for the loss of two wickets in 18.2 overs before the rain played the spoil spot. Former Ranji trophy player and coach Sritam Das presented the man of the match award to Bikash Pati of the winning team.
Brief Score: Mukteswar Cricket Club 190/7 in 40 overs ( Sidhanta Ray 41(4x3,6x1) (53 balls), Soubhagya Mohanty 37(4x3) (60 balls), Sunit lenka 33(4x5) (36 balls), Rajesh Beuria 32 n.o;(4x2,6x2) (22 balls) ; Santosh Sethi 3/23, Suryakant Pradhan 2/39) lost to Rising Student 117/2 in 18.2 overs ( Bikash Pati 48 n.o; (4x7) (62 balls), Biplab Samantray 27 n.o; (4x3.6x1) ) by average run rate.
Anupama wins bronze in National Karate meet
Bhubaneswar: Anupama Swain of Odisha won a bronze medal in the women 55kg fighting of the KAI Senior National Karate Championship, which concluded on Friday at Talkotra Stadium in Delh, being organized by Karate Association of India. In first round she won Sikkim in 11-3, in second round defeated Delhi by 4-2, and in third round edged out Punjab Police by 10-2. She missed the final fight narrowly as suffered defeat from Arunachal Pradesh by 3-4 points. In the Three day long tournament, Odisha bagged one gold and a bronze medal. The gold medal claimed by Valena Valentina in the women individual kata event.