5 Odisha eves in National hockey squad
Bhubaneswar: Hockey India has announced 18-member Indian hockey squad at the FIH women’s World league Round Two, to be held at the Major Dhyan Chand National Stadium in Delhi from March 7 to 15.
Deep Grace Ekka, Namita Toppo, Sunita lakra, lilima Minz and Anupa Barla are the five Odisha players who got selected in the national team. The winner of the eight-team event will advance to Round Three, which would be a qualifying event for the Rio Olympics.
Goalkeepers: Savita, Rajani Etimarpu, Defenders; Deep Grace Ekka, Deepika (VC), Namita Toppo, Jaspreet Kaur, Sunita lakra, Midfielders; Ritu Rani (C), Sushila Chanu Pukhrambam, lilima Minz, Navjot Kaur, Monika, Forwards; Rani, Poonam Rani, Anupa Barla, Soundarya Yendala, Amandeep Kaur, Vandana Katariya
Biju Pattnaik Mini Marathon on March 5
Bhubaneswar: Odisha’s Sports and Youth Services Department is all set to host Biju Pattnaik Mini Marathon on March 5. The players will participate in the 15 to 18 years (boys and girls),18 years above (men and women), veteran (50 to 60 years) and veteran 60+ events. The six kilometers mini marathon will begin from Biju Pattnaik Park and to be culminated at Kalinga Stadium here. The marathon features total cash award of Rs2.81 lakhs. The champion and runner-up of 15 to 18 years (boys and girls) would receive Rs7,000 and Rs6,000 respectively, similarly in the 18 years above (men and women) would get Rs12,000 and Rs10,000 respectively. Both the veteran age groups champion and runner-up would get Rs7,000 and Rs6,000 respectively. Top five finishers of all the group would get cash prizes and the 6th to 15th place holders of each group would get Rs1,000 each. The interested players would register their names in between March 1 to 3.
Bhushan holds departmental Cricket tourney
Dhenkanal: In a bid to keep up the sportive enthusiasm among the employees Bhushan Steel ltd, has organised a 22 days long cricket tournament at the play ground of company premises at Narendrapur in Dhenkanal. The cricket tournament was organised under flood light. Inaugurating the match on the 9th February company Director Rahul Sengupta, inspired the workmen to keep up the sportive spirit sans of Job. Sources said 40 cricket teams from all departments took part in the tournament. Speaking on the occasion company executive Director Atul Mishra has expressed his pleasure, as Bhushan Recreational Club organised the meet and also organized badminton tournament successfully earlier. Company Environment Chief Dr. C.B.S. Sengar spoke among others.
Services, NHPl win HoD Cup Cricket
Bhubaneswar: The allround performance of Omm Prakash Nayak of Odisha Services, who scored unbeaten 51 runs and scalped two wickets powered the team to beat OPTCl by eight wickets in the final and emerged champion of the HoD Cup Cricket Tournament at Kalinga Stadium, being organised by Odisha Heads of Department Ministerial Officers Association. Similarly, in the corporate group final on February 24, Neelachala Hospital Privet limited (NHPl) emerged champion by defeating Joyti groups by 19 runs. The both champion team received the trophy along with cash award of Rs10,000 each and both runner up took home Rs7,000 each. Omm Prakash Nayak, Surya Das of Services and Somanath Baliarsingh of OPTCl received man of the tournament, best wicketkeeper and bowler awards respectively. Forest and Environment Department Special secretary Debi Dutta Biswal distributed the prizes as the chief guest of the closing ceremony. Among others, Comptroller OUAT Rabindra Kumar Das, Prasant Pattnaik and Ramesh Rout were present.
Brief Score: OPTCl 93/8 in 20 overs (Soumitra Sethi 20, lalatendu Bariganjan 26; Omm Bikash Nayak 2/16) lost to Odisha Services 97/2 in 15 overs (Omm Bikash Nayak 51 n.o; Jitendra Tripathy 26 n.o; Samartha Baliarsingh 2/19) by 8 wickets.
NHPl 134/6 in 20 overs (Rakesh Patnaik 24, Arya Debasis Bhatt 23, Rupak Jena 51 n.o; Akhya Mahabhoi 2/17) beat Joyti Groups 115/8 in 20 overs (Siddhant Jena 34, Niranjan Behera 2/9, Arya Bhatta 3/11) by 19 runs.