Jafar Iqbal gets rousing welcome
Bhubaneswar: The vice captain of the India Cricket Team for the Visually Impaired and the only one from Odisha selected for the invitational bilateral cricket series against England, all rounder Md Jafar Iqbal was given a rousing reception by the Cricket Association of the Visually Impaired Odisha, the Office of the State Commissioner for the Persons with Disabilities and the Special Olympics Bharat-Odisha at the Vocational Rehabilitation Centre for the Handicapped. The meeting presided over by Sannyas Kumar Behera, the President of CAVIO was attended by Dr. Minati Behera, SCPD as the chief guest, Prakash K Rath, Area Director, SOBO, SK Sharama, Asst. Director, VRCH and Rabindra Kumar Tripathy, Social Activist as the guests of honour. Speaking on the occasion, Iqbal, recounted his experiences from his days of struggle to the days in England. He expressed his desire to see more and more players being selected to represent India from Odisha and the starting of the women's cricket. It is his cherished desire to ensure participation of a Women's Cricket Team from India in the upcoming Asia Cup in March 2016. He earnestly requested the Area Director, SOBO to take up the challenging assignment and provide necessary guidance and support. Jafar also recounted how they whitewashed the English side 2-0 in the One Day Series and 3-0 in the T20 Series. He was also satisfied with his own all round performance. Befittingly, Iqbal was presented, with a brand new cricket bat made from the best quality English willow by Arpita Mohapatra, the Adventure Sports Specialist and National Trainer of Special Olympics Bharat who had taken 11 persons with visual impairment to a snow capped pass at a height of more than 12000 ft in the Himalayas in 2011.
Squash coach Gurucharan Das passes away
Bhubaneswar: Squash coach Gurucharan Das passed away at the age of 100 in Kolkata on June 3 due to old age. Due to his fitness and diet he did not have any kind of disease till death. He was born in Kathiapara village of Kendrapara district. His father late Chintamani Das at that time was working in the squash coach in The Calcutta Club. At an early age of 20 he took him to Kolkata and started making him learn squash. Within two years, he was ready to teach squash to players. He joined Rackets club in 1937. He worked there for 49 years 9 months. During that period, he trained numerous numbers of players who played at the national level. He also participated in number of national tournaments in Delhi and Mumbai and Kolkata as these places were the main centre of squash during that era. later on he took his son Parsuram Das to give him training so that the family tradition should go on. And that also inspired his grandson Gautam Das to take squash as his profession after he played his professional squash for 10 years. He was a great person who developed squash in West Bengal and tried his best to develop in Odisha which did not happen. People in squash still remember for his super skill and fitness.
Gun for Glory shooting range to open in city
Bhubaneswar: Pune-based Gun for Glory shooting academy is going to open its new centre in the city on Jun 9, informed franchise co owner Renu Choudhuray in a Press Meet on Saturday. This shooting range would be the seventh franchise center of the Gun for Glory academy. The academy would have ten lanes in the 10 meter air rifle and air pistol range. GFG managed by the international repute shooter padmashree and Khel Ratna Gagan Narang had express his strong desire to open different academy in throughout the country. He would promote the sports in the nock and corner of the country. Odisha is having lot of potential in shooting but need proper infrastructure and training to groom them international standard, said coach Sourav Solani. Sports and Youth Services Minister Sudam Marandi would inaugurate the academy on Tuesday. Among others, Amrik Singh and franchise co owner Gurbachan Singh were present.
Srabani enters Asian Athletic meet 200 m final
Bhubaneswar: Odisha’s ace sprinter Srabani Nanda entered the final of the women 200 meter event by clocking 23.71 seconds in the 21st Asian Athletic Championship at Wuhan, China on Saturday. In the heats Srabani finished second and qualified for the final to be held on Sunday. After the heats in the final standing she placed in the third place. Viktoriya Zyabkina and Olga Safronova both of Kazakhstan qualified first and second by clocking 23.39 and 23.65 seconds respectively. Earlier in the national meet, Srabani bagged the gold medal in the 200 metre race by clocking 23.67 seconds. She is having fare chance to get medal in the final event on Sunday, said Coach Nelamadav Deo.The vice captain of the India Cricket Team for the Visually Impaired and the only one from Odisha selected for the invitational bilateral cricket series against England, all rounder Md Jafar Iqbal was given a rousing reception by the Cricket Association of the Visually Impaired Odisha, the Office of the State Commissioner for the Persons with Disabilities and the Special Olympics Bharat-Odisha at the Vocational Rehabilitation Centre for the Handicapped. The meeting presided over by Sannyas Kumar Behera, the President of CAVIO was attended by Dr. Minati Behera, SCPD as the chief guest, Prakash K Rath, Area Director, SOBO, SK Sharama, Asst. Director, VRCH and Rabindra Kumar Tripathy, Social Activist as the guests of honour. Speaking on the occasion, Iqbal, recounted his experiences from his days of struggle to the days in England. He expressed his desire to see more and more players being selected to represent India from Odisha and the starting of the women's cricket. It is his cherished desire to ensure participation of a Women's Cricket Team from India in the upcoming Asia Cup in March 2016. He earnestly requested the Area Director, SOBO to take up the challenging assignment and provide necessary guidance and support. Jafar also recounted how they whitewashed the English side 2-0 in the One Day Series and 3-0 in the T20 Series. He was also satisfied with his own all round performance. Befittingly, Iqbal was presented, with a brand new cricket bat made from the best quality English willow by Arpita Mohapatra, the Adventure Sports Specialist and National Trainer of Special Olympics Bharat who had taken 11 persons with visual impairment to a snow capped pass at a height of more than 12000 ft in the Himalayas in 2011.
Squash coach Gurucharan Das passes away
Bhubaneswar: Squash coach Gurucharan Das passed away at the age of 100 in Kolkata on June 3 due to old age. Due to his fitness and diet he did not have any kind of disease till death. He was born in Kathiapara village of Kendrapara district. His father late Chintamani Das at that time was working in the squash coach in The Calcutta Club. At an early age of 20 he took him to Kolkata and started making him learn squash. Within two years, he was ready to teach squash to players. He joined Rackets club in 1937. He worked there for 49 years 9 months. During that period, he trained numerous numbers of players who played at the national level. He also participated in number of national tournaments in Delhi and Mumbai and Kolkata as these places were the main centre of squash during that era. later on he took his son Parsuram Das to give him training so that the family tradition should go on. And that also inspired his grandson Gautam Das to take squash as his profession after he played his professional squash for 10 years. He was a great person who developed squash in West Bengal and tried his best to develop in Odisha which did not happen. People in squash still remember for his super skill and fitness.
Gun for Glory shooting range to open in city
Bhubaneswar: Pune-based Gun for Glory shooting academy is going to open its new centre in the city on Jun 9, informed franchise co owner Renu Choudhuray in a Press Meet on Saturday. This shooting range would be the seventh franchise center of the Gun for Glory academy. The academy would have ten lanes in the 10 meter air rifle and air pistol range. GFG managed by the international repute shooter padmashree and Khel Ratna Gagan Narang had express his strong desire to open different academy in throughout the country. He would promote the sports in the nock and corner of the country. Odisha is having lot of potential in shooting but need proper infrastructure and training to groom them international standard, said coach Sourav Solani. Sports and Youth Services Minister Sudam Marandi would inaugurate the academy on Tuesday. Among others, Amrik Singh and franchise co owner Gurbachan Singh were present.
Srabani enters Asian Athletic meet 200 m final
Bhubaneswar: Odisha’s ace sprinter Srabani Nanda entered the final of the women 200 meter event by clocking 23.71 seconds in the 21st Asian Athletic Championship at Wuhan, China on Saturday. In the heats Srabani finished second and qualified for the final to be held on Sunday. After the heats in the final standing she placed in the third place. Viktoriya Zyabkina and Olga Safronova both of Kazakhstan qualified first and second by clocking 23.39 and 23.65 seconds respectively. Earlier in the national meet, Srabani bagged the gold medal in the 200 metre race by clocking 23.67 seconds. She is having fare chance to get medal in the final event on Sunday, said Coach Nelamadav Deo.