Odisha beat Sikkim in Santosh Trophy
Bhubaneswar: Odisha started their campaign with a winning note in the 70th National Senior Men Football Championship for Santosh Trophy 2015-16 (East Zone Qualifying Round) by defeating Sikkim 2-1 on Wednesday.
Odisha got the lead in the first minute through a goal by Arjun Naik. Odisha maintained their attacking style and got a penalty kick at 27th minute but was unable to score.
State striker of Odisha Pankaj Sona made no mistake in the 36th minute and netted another goal for the team and scripted 2-0 lead by the end of first half. After the change of sides, Sikkim changed its gear and manages to beat the Odisha’s strong defence line and reduce the lead in the 55th minute.
Odisha beat Telangana in National Blind Cricket
Bhubaneswar: An impressive all-round performance by Sukhram Majhi, who scored an unbeaten 116 and scalped three wicket helped Odisha to beat Telengana in their inaugural match of the 15th Shakuntala Mishra National Blind cricket tournament begins at KD Sing Babu stadium in lucknow on Wednesday.
Being invited to bat first, Odisha scored 194 for 1 in stipulated 15 overs. Sukhram was well supported by Nakula Badnayak who contributed 60.
In reply, Odisha bowlers came into action with Sukhram scalping three wickets, lingaraj Routra and Pankaj Mangal took two wickets each and restricted Telengana for 94 in 13 overs.
As many as 12 teams are divided in four groups and participating in this tournament. Top teams of each group will play the semi-final. Odisha placed in the Pool D along with Maharashtra and Telengana. Odisha will take on Maharashtra on February 12.
Hockey Odisha, Gangpur win in National Sub-Jr Hockey
Bhubaneswar: Hockey Odisha and Hockey Gangpur Odisha edged out Tamil Nadu and Karnataka 6-0 and 3-1 respectively in the league round match of the 6th Hockey India Sub Junior Women National Championship 2016 (A Division) in Rohtak, Haryana on Tuesday.
Eastern domination also prevailed in a Pool C where Hockey Odisha beat Hockey Unit of Tamil Nadu 6-0. Odisha scored two goals in the first half through a field goal and a penalty corner. Odisha picked up the game the pressing game in the second half to score four more goals and establish their supremacy. The Tamil Nadu defense had no answer to Odisha’s attacking moves. Bimal Barwa scored a brace from Odisha team in the win.
The first half of the match was in favour of Hockey Karnataka as Meghana.s scored the first goal in the 35th minute. After the change of sides Hockey Gangpur-Odisha took over the lead with Jiwan Kishori Toppo from the team scoring the first goal in 38th minute. The team continued to take two more goal and the match end with a score of 3-1 in favour of Hockey Gangpur-Odisha.
Hockey Gangpur Odisha placed in the group-D along with Hockey Haryana, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. Similarly, Hockey Odisha placed in pool-C along with Sports Authority of India, Hockey Unit of Tamil Nadu and Chhattisgarh Hockey.
Altogether 16 teams are divided in four groups to play the league round matches and group toppers will qualify for the semifinals.
Earlier in the inaugural day on Monday, the match between Hockey Gangpur and Haryana ended in 1-1 draw and Hokey Odisha suffered a defeat from Sports Authority of India 1-6.
Bengal, Tripura win in East Zone U-23 Women Cricket
Bhubaneswar: Brilliant all-round performance of Rima Chakraborty guided Tripura to beat Assam by 52 runs in the league round match of the East Zone U-23 Women One-day league at Cuttack on Wednesday.
Batting first, Rima scored 49 and Tripura scored 114 in 49.5 overs. In reply, Tripura bowlers Rima and Sweety B Sinha scalped three wickets each and restricted Assam to 62 in 36.4 overs. l
In another match of the day, Bengal edged out Odisha by 10 wickets. Pragyan P Mohanty and Rani Tudu of Odisha scored 43 and unbeaten 38 helped host to gather 149 for 7 in 50 overs.
In reply, Ambika Guha and Priyanka Bala of Bengal contributed unbeaten 58 and 72 runs respectively and team reached the winning target in 36.4 overs without losing a wicket.
Brief score: Tripura 114/10 in 49.5 overs (Rima G Chakraborty 49; Rekharani Bora 2/12, Devashree Konwar 2/31) beat Assam 62/10 in 36.4 overs (Annapurna B Das 2/23, Rima G Chakraborty 3/8, Sweety B Sinha 3/16) by 52 runs. Odisha 149/7 in 50 overs (Pragyan P Mohanty 43, Sushree Dibyadarshini 22, Rani Tudu 38 n.o; Saika Ishaque 2/15) lost to West Bengal 150/0 in 33.3 overs (Ambika Guha 58 n.o; Priyanka Bala 72 n.o;) by 10 wickets.