The centurion first wicket partnership between Jyoti Ranjan Behera and Sraban Bunga guided the Saheed Sporting Cricket Club of Bhubaneswar to beat Rising Student Club of Cuttack by eight wickets in the final of the Sumit Bose Memorial Junior level under 16 Cricket Tournament, which concluded at Cuttack on Sunday, being organised by Biswabharati Cricket Club.
Winning the Toss Saheed Sporting elected to field first, Sandeep Chauhan and Arya Jena of Saheed Sporting scalped three wickets each and restricted Rising Student innings for 119 runs in 33.2 overs.
In reply, Jyoti smashed an unbeaten 54 runs and well supported by Sraban who contributed 49 runs and the team reached the winning target in 29.3 overs for the loss of two wickets.
The champion Saheed Sporting bagged the trophy along with cash award of Rs 15,000 and the runner up team took home Rs 10,000. Tarini Prasad Das and Basu Sekhar were conducted the final match as umpire.
Joyti Ranjan Behera and Sd Aman Ali of champion team received the man of the final and best fielder award respectively and their team mate Sraban Bunga got the man of the series and best batsman awards respectively. Sashank Rungta of Rising Student and Bl Sibram of Juvenile Club received best bowler and emerging player of the tournament respectively.
Odisha Cricket Association secretary Ashirbad Behera distributed the prizes as the chief guest of the closing ceremony in presence of Saikat Bose son of late Sumit Bose, OCA joint secretary Sanjeeb Kumar Dutta, Treasure Satya Mohanty, East Coast Railway CMS D Ramarao, Biswabharati Cricket Club president Biswajeet Mohanty and secretary Soumitra Choudhury.
Senior member's like Susanta Mohanty, Treasurer, Biswabharati Cricket Club,Bishnudev Mohanty, Nrusingha Choudhury, Pradeep Das, Tarini Prasad Das,Suchitra Mohan Mohapatra, Sudarshan Das with Some Senior Ranji Cricketer's like Sanjay Raul, Hrushikesh Bangari, Rashmi Ranjan Das, Sameer Mohanty, Prashant Sahoo, Subit Biswal, PR Sinha, lagnajit Samal with other member's were also present in the ceremony.
Brief score: Rising Student 119/10 in 33.2 overs (Yogesh Gond 28, Biswajeet Das 26; Sandeep Chauhan 3/30, Arya Jena 3/32) lost to Saheed Sporting 123/2 in 29.3 overs (Jyoti Ranjan Behera 54 n.o; Sraban Bunga 49) by 8 wickets.