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Cuttack: The Odisha Cricket Association (OCA) successfully conducted the coaches’ refresher programme at the Barabati Stadium here on May 11 and 12. A total of 48 representatives participated in this programme. V Venkatram technical director of Odisha Cricket Academy imparted coaching knowledge during this programme. Subrat Kumar Behera, CEO of OCA was present and encouraged…
Cuttack: Four players of Odisha Cricket Association have been selected to play in the Inter National Cricket Academy Tournament for U19 (Girls) to be held at Rajkot from May 21-31. The players are – Priyankaree Muduli (Team A), Suchismita Panda (Team A), SB Lorence (Team F) and Tanmayee Behera (Team D). Pranab Prakash Das (president),…
The first phase of OCA’s talent hunt camp for spinners ended at the Railway Stadium in Bhadrak on Saturday. The camp held across different venues in the state, saw participation of 417 spinners. A total of 97 spinners turned up at the zonal venue Bhadrak which consisted of Kendrapara, Balasore, Bhadrak, Keonjhar, Mayurbhanj and Jajpur…
Dhenkanal prevailed in a low-scoring game of Kalahandi Cup (senior) inter-district cricket preliminary league as they beat Ganjam by 122 runs on Sunday. Opting to bat, Kanha Bhutia and Sunil Sahoo scored fifties as Dhenkanal managed to reach 220 in 47.4 overs. For Ganjam, Janmejoy Nayak and Laxmi Pal picked four and three wickets respectively….
Virat Kohli and Gautam Gambhir have been fined 100% of their match fee over verbal altercation after an IPL match on Monday, in which Royal Challengers Bangalore beat Lucknow Super Giants by 18 runs. Both were found to be in breach of article 2.21 of the IPL’s code of conduct. Meanwhile, LSG Naveen-ul-Haq has been…
Former India cricketer Swagatika Rath announced her retirement from all formats on Monday. She had represented India in three One-Day and two T20 International matches in the year 2012. Rath played for Odisha from 2007-2016 and for Railways from 2016-2023. Pranab Prakash Das (president), Sanjay Behera (secretary) and all other office-bearers of OCA wished her…
Bhubaneswar: A total of 93 players attended the Khurda zonal venue where talent hunt camp for spinners was conducted by Odisha Cricket Association (OCA) at BJB High School Ground here on Sunday. Players from Nayagarh, Khurda, Malkangiri, Nabarangpur, Gajapati, Koraput, Ganjam, Kandhamal and Rayagada had turned up. Also read: Talent hunt camp for spinners begins…
Odisha’s Bapi Hansda bagged a silver medal in 400m hurdles event at the 5th Asian Youth Athletics Championship at Tashkent, Uzbekistan. He clocked 51.38 seconds in the finals of the event on April 27. Maamat Abakar Abdraham of Qatar secured the gold medal with a time of 50.91 sec while bronze medal went to Sri…
Chennai Super Kings scored 200 batting first at Chepauk but not enough as Punjab Kings chased it down for a thrilling four-wicket victory on Sunday. Punjab skipper Shikhar Dhawan rates the win as “very very special”. “Beating Chennai in Chennai is a very big thing. This shows the great character of our side, leaving that…
In the Qualifier match No.2 of Kalahandi Cup (senior) inter-district cricket preliminary league, Sambalpur beat Dhenkanal by 44 runs on Friday. Opting to bat, Sambalpur scored 294 in 49.2 overs, with Sayed Zaki scoring 64 of 46 balls and Prasanta Das 56 off 69 balls. For Dhenkanal, Soumendra Das picked four wickets. In the run-chase,…
