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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,…
Cuttack: As many as 125 players turned up at Odisha Cricket Academy here on Friday for the OCA talent hunt camp for spinners. The zonal venue (Cuttack) saw players’ participation from Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, Puri, Paradeep, Jagatsinghpur and Dhenkanal districts. The Odisha senior men’s team head coach Dinesh Mongia along with senior and junior selectors of…
The Odisha Cricket Association (OCA) has received 975 entries for the talent hunt camp for spinners, which started this morning at Cuttack. In order to provide opportunity to each player, the camp has been spread across five different venues on different dates. Odisha senior men’s team head coach Dinesh Mongia along with senior and junior…
Rajasthan Royals needed a win to get back on track and they did so by defeating Chennai Super Kings by 32 runs in their first home game at Jaipur on Thursday. Opting to bat, Rajasthan put up 202 for 5 with Yashasvi Jaiswal slamming a 43-ball 77. He along with Jos Buttler (27) provided the…
After Royal Challengers Bangalore’s 21-run defeat to Kolkata Knight Riders at home, stand-in skipper Virat Kohli blamed the dropped chances on Wednesday. “To be honest we handed them the game. We did deserve to lose. We were certainly not up to standard. If you look at the game, we didn’t capitalize our chances. We dropped…
The talent hunt camp for spinners has been rescheduled and will now start on April 28 instead of April 27 as announced earlier, Odisha Cricket Association (OCA) informed on Tuesday. The camp will be held at multiple venues in order to give opportunity to maximum number of aspiring spinners throughout the state. OCA said it…
