Chand, Radha Raman win in FAO Football league
Bhubaneswar: Chand Club and Radha Raman Club defeated Independent Club and Jay Durga Club respectively in the league round match of the FAO 1st Div Football league at Cuttack on Thursday.
Independent Club got the lead in the fifth minute through the goal by Sk Juber. Owolesho Abey of Chand Club scored the equalizer in the 15th minutes and his mate Amos Nathaniel nailed the winning goal in the 21st minutes and racing from the back the team edged out Independent Club by 2-1 goals. In a one sided match, Radha Raman Club pipped Jay Durga Club by 3-0 goals. The goal scorer for Radha Raman Club was janmo Xess, Anand lakra and lal Mohan Hansdah of the winning team scored one goal each at 28th,37th and 55th minutes respectively.Radha Gobinda Club would meet Young Utkal Club on Friday.
Decathlon felicitates Nanda Kishor, Kartik Rao
Bhubaneswar: Decathlon, a France based sports Retail Company as per their project coach campaign felicitated football coach Nanda Kishor Pattnaik and P Kartik Rao by providing coaching stuffs and accessories to them. Well known women football coach Nanda Kishor has been created many national and international women footballer for our State and P Kartik has been working as coach in Kiit and KISS. Decathlon, a France based sports Retail Company is coming soon with its outlet in Phulnakhara in the city outskirt. We, at Decathlon look forward to the people of twin-city so that we make sports accessible to all. We are having outlets in 21 countries and having equipments more than 70 different sporting discipline, said outlet sports adviser Subham Dasgupta. A unique feature of the retail chain is that it designs and manufactures sports equipment under its own brands, which number over a dozen. More than half the products are made in India, which is important to keep prices low. The prices vary with the range from products for beginners and going up to the professional level. Among others, outlet sports adviser Sunny Michel Datta and Atherton Biswas were present.
Rutuparna enter Tennis Super Series final
Bhubaneswar: Odisha girl third seed Rutuparna Choudhary entered the girls U-14 single final of the Super Series Tennis Tournament which is being played at BTA, Kolkata on Thursday. In semi final Rutuparna defeated second seed Rachana Reddy of Andhra Pradesh and all India rank 17 by 6-3,6-2.
Cricketer Saurav Sahigal announces retirement
Bhubaneswar : Odisha all rounder, left hand spinner and batsman Sourav Sahigal announced his retirement from the first class cricket here on Thursday. He was suffered with solder injury and decided to quit his cricketing career. He got the injury while playing Ranji match at Baroda in the year 2012. 1980 burn Saurav started his first class cricket in the year in 2001-02 at Balasore against Assam. He played total 17 matches, scored total 287 runs and scalped 42 wickets. His career best score was 74 runs against Sourashtra in the year 2008 and scalped seven wickets by giving 39 runs. Saurav expressed his thanks to OCA Secretary Asirbad Behera, Sahid Sporting Club, St Joseph High School, Bhubaneswar Athletic Association, Saba Karim and Sritam Das. Fellow cricketer Debasis Mohanty, Rasmi Ranjan Parida, Siba Sundar Das, Sanjay Roul and P Jaya Chandra helped me a lot to my cricket. Though I had announced my retirement but continue my cricket for East Coast Railways, said Saurav.