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Cuttack: Lekha Loyalka picked four wickets as Rourkela beat Puri by 10 wickets in an inter-district women’s T20 match, played at Raveshaw ground-1 here on Monday. Opting to bat, Puri scored only 38 for 5 in 20 overs as Loyalka returned figures of 4 for three. In reply, Ranjita Ransingh scored 23 not out as…
Cuttack: Kusum Tiriya scored a half-century and Rani K. Prasad picked a five-wicket haul as Keonjhar thrashed Koraput by 170 runs in a inter-district women’s T20 match, played at Sunshine ground here on Friday. Tiriya scored 63 off 47 balls while Purnima Ray (26) and Tannwi Ranjana contributed with handy knocks to help Keonjhar reach…
Cuttack: It was again a day where there were a string of low-scoring games in the OCA inter-district women cricket tournament. In a match played at Ravenshaw ground-2, after bowling out Malkangiri for 69 in 12.4 overs, Koraput encountered the same fate and lost the match by 42 runs after being shot out for only…
Under its ambitious Vision@2024 programme, Odisha Cricket Association (OCA) is all set to conduct a talent hunt camp for pace bowlers from July 6-8 at Cuttack. Players between 16–25 years age group can enroll in this talent hunt camp provided they would not have represented Odisha state cricket in any age group category. A maximum…
Cuttack: Badal Biswal picked a four-wicket haul as Odisha Panthers beat Odisha Cheetahs by seven wickets to win the Odisha T20 Cricket League on Wednesday. Opting to field, the Panthers bowled out the Cheetahs for 88 in 18.4 overs with Biswal taking four wickets and Abhishek Yadav two. For the Cheetahs, Kissan Ratha (36) was…
Bhubaneswar: Cuttack district finished as champions and Sundargarh runner-up as the 69th Odisha State Athletics Meet 2023 concluded at KIIT Athletics Stadium, here on Sunday. For the first time in the meet history, a total of 41 records were created. Sailendra Prasad Jena, joint secretary, Sports & YS, was the chief guest and declared the…
Cuttack: Sumit Sharma once again starred with the ball as Odisha Cheetahs beat Odisha Lions by six wickets in a rain truncated game of Odisha T20 Cricket league, played at DRIEMS ground here on Sunday. With the match reduced to six-overs-a-side, the Lions put in to bat scored 52 for 6 with Biplab Samantray scoring…
The OCA inter-district women cricket tournament on Saturday saw two low-scoring games where the teams were bowled out under the scores of 20. In a match played at Sunshine ground in Cuttack, Nayagarh were bowled out for 10 in 8.1 overs against Cuttack. Suryasnata Swain picked four wickets while Banalata Mallick took three wickets. Cuttack…
Cuttack: In a rain affected game of Odisha T20 Cricket League on Saturday, Odisha Cheetahs beat Odisha Pumas by five wickets, played at DRIEMS cricket ground here. The match reduced to 12-overs-a-side, the Pumas opting to bat scored 84 for 7 with Binaya Paikaray (25) being the top-scorer. For the Cheetahs, Sumit Sharma and Suryakant…
Suryakant Pradhan has moved from standby to become part of the East Zone team for the upcoming Duleep Trophy 2023 from June 28 to July 16 in Bengaluru. The status changed after Mukesh Kumar of Bengal who was previously named in the East Zone squad was picked in India’s squad for the West Indies tour….
