Bikhyat, Aman shine in Kalahandi Cup semifinals
Bhubaneswar: Despite the five wickets haul by Bikhyat Biswal of Bargarh the Bhubaneswar-A team scored 265 runs in the first innings and in another match Aman Sashtri of Bhubaneswar-B scalped six wickets and restricted Cuttack-B for 173 runs in the semifinals of the Kalahandi Cup Senior Inter-District Cricket Tournament at Barabati Stadium in Cuttack on Wednesday. Batting first, Priyabrata Pradhan and Santosh Debkant of Bhubaneswar-A scored 74 and 56 runs respectively and team scored 265 runs in 72.5 overs. Bikhyat of Bargarh scled five wickets by giving 45 runs and managed to restrict Bhubaneswar-A in a respective total. At Ravenshaw ground, Aman bagged six wickets and Krushna Mohanty grabbed two wickets and restricted Cuttack-B for 173 runs in 54.1 overs. Barabati Stadium: BBSR-A 265/10 in 72.5 overs (Priyabrata Pradhan 74, Santosh Debkant 56, Pallabendu Mishra 54, Sukant Das 29; Bikhyat Biswal 5/45, Dipesh Kumar 2/63, Pardeshi Nishad 2/74) Vs Bargarh 15/1 in 8 overs. Ravenshaw Ground-I: Cuttack-B 173/10 in 54.1 overs (Manas Muduli 44, Santosh Jena 40 n.o; PR Sinha 24; Aman Sashtri 6/50, Krushna Mohanty 2/33) Vs BBSR-B 41/3 in 12 overs (Abhaya Mallick 25 n.o; Santosh Jena 3/20).
Soundarya bags runner up title
Bhubaneswar: Soundarya Kumar Pradhan of Odisha bagged the runner up trophy in the National Blind Chess Championship at Nagokoil in Kanyakumari District in Tamil Nadu on Tuesday. Soundarya and Diptajit Dey of Kolkata scored 6.5 points each by the end of eighth rounds. While Diptajit bagged the champions trophy and Soundary received the runner up trophy. Other Odisha players, Subasha Behera and Anil santi scored five points each and finished 13th and 15th respectively. Total 68 players were participated in the four day long meet.
2 Odisha athletes to participate in masters meet
Bhubaneswar: Two Odisha, sveteran athletes left from here on Tuesday to participate in the Asian Open Masters Athletic Championship 2015 is going to be held at Surat Thani, Thailand from March 6 to 8. Madhumita Satpathy and IG Padhi are going to represent India to participate in the Championship in different disciplines.