The 10th Nimapara Cup Cricket, which is also known as 7th Kishore Panda Memorial Cricket Tournament, concluded here on Sunday with the Crown Sporting, Bhubaneswar becoming the champion by beating Cuttack Nimpur Sporting by 5 wickets.
Batting fist, the Nimpur Sporting scored 164 by loss of 7 wickets in 30 overs. Sumit Mohapatra scored 36 and Avishek 37 and Omm Arya of Crown Sporting took two wickets.
Chasing 164 runs, the Crown Sporting scored 165 by loss of 4 wickets in just 23.2 overs. Kisan Rath, who scored highest 96 runs in 65 balls, was declared as man of the match. Crown Sporting’s Janmejay Nayak was declared as man of the series. Sumit Mohapatra of Nimpur Sporting grabbed the best batsman award. The winners’ team got Rs 30,000 as cash award with the winning trophy and runners up Nimpur Sporting got Rs 20,000.
Nirmal Mishra and Ayashkant Mishra were umpires and Sambit Nayak, Amrit Mohapatra, Deepak, Partha were the scorers. Local MLA Samir Ranjan Dash, Odisha Stevedores’ Association president Pranakrushna Nayak, Odia actress Niharika Das and Pupul Bhuyan, Gopabandhu Panda and Haraprasad Behera graced as guests.