BBSR-A winS Kalhandi Cup cricket titles
Palabendu Mishra of Bhubaneswar-A smashed an unbeaten 110 runs in the second innings and powered the team to thrash Bhubaneswar-B by nine wickets in their four day long Kalahandi Cup Senior Inter-Districts Cricket Tournament at Nimpur Ground in Cuttack on Thursday. In replay to BBSR-B’s first innings score of 316 runs, BBSR-A ended the first innings for 315 runs. In the second innings BBSR-A bounced back in style, Manoj Barik scalped four wickets by giving 45 runs, hismate Tukuna Sahu and Niranjan Behera bagged two wickets each and restricted BBSR-B’s second innings for 198 runs in 55 overs. In reply, chasing a target of 199 runs to script win, BBSR-A was scored 35 runs at day three stumps without losing a wicket. Batting with unbeaten 24 runs, Palabendu added 86 runs in the final day and stand rock solid till the end. Palabendu was well supported by Santosh Debakant who contributed 80 runs and the team reached the winning target in the 48.2 overs for the loss of one wicket. Brief Score: Nimpur Sports Club: BBSR-B 316/10 in 64.5 overs and 198/10 in 55 overs (Sandeep Sethy 58, Soubhagya Mohanty 29; Manoj Barik 4/45, Tukuna Sahu 2/45, Niranjan Behera 2/60) lost to BBSR-A 315/10 in 93.2 overs and 202/1 in 48.2 overs (Palabendu Mishra 110 n.o; Santosh Debakant 80) by 9 wickets.