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Madhuri Meheta and Kajal Jena scored fifties as Odisha women beat Chhattisgarh by 71 runs in their first match in BCCI T20 League. Opting to bat at the Greenfield Stadium in Trivandrum, Odisha put up 150 for 2 in 20 overs, with Meheta scoring 66 and Jena 60. Chhattisgarh’s chase never took off as they…
The Odisha senior women’s team left on April 15 for Trivandrum to participate in the BCCI T20 tournament. The 20-member Odisha squad is led by Madhusmita Behera as Odisha are placed in Elite-B group. Odisha will start their campaign on April 18 against Chhattisgarh. Squad: Madhusmita Behera (capt), Kajal Jena, Sarita Meher, Sushree Dibyadarshini, Pragyan…
Walter Toppo scored a century as Sundargarh beat Khorda by four wickets in a Diamond group match of Kalahandi Cup. Opting to bat, Khorda put up 228 all out in 48.2 overs with Aryashree Bhatta scoring a century. Swastik Samal and Ashish Tiwari picked two wickets each for Sundargarh. Sundargarh chased down the total in…
After the conclusion of the first preliminary league stage of Diamond group, four teams have qualified to the Super-League phase of Kalahandi Cup. The teams that have qualified from Diamond Group after 30 matches are Bhubaneswar A, ECORSA, Cuttack A and Jharsuguda. In the next stage of the tournament, these teams will be joined by…
ECORSA defeated Cuttack B by 30 runs in a low-scoring league game of Kalahandi Cup on Wednesday. Opting to bat first, ECORSA made 166 with Abhishek Yadav scoring 83 and for Cuttack B Sumit Sharma picking four wickets. However, Cuttack B floundered in the small chase and were bowled out for 136 in 46.2 overs….
The 68th Odisha State Athletics Meet 2022 concluded on April 11 at KIIT Athletics Stadium, Bhubaneswar. Sulochana Das, new mayor of Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation was the chief guest at the closing ceremony. Cuttack emerged as the champion while Bhubaneswar Athletic Association ended as the runner-up team. KIIT’s athletics team was declared as the best disciplined…
In a low-scoring match of Kalahandi Cup on Monday, BBSR-A beat Sundargarh by 97 runs. Opting to bat, BBSR-A were bowled out for 193 with Sandeep Pattnaik and Shantanu Mishra scoring fifties. For sundargarh, Walter Toppo picked four wickets. But Sundargarh faltered in the chase and were bowled out for 96 in 32.2 overs. Asis…
Odisha Cricket Association hosted a cricket kit distribution ceremony in association with Shyam Bhatia’s “Cricket for Care” and Shree Jagannath Steels & Powers Ltd. at Barabati Stadium, Cuttack. The “Cricket for Care” is a charitable organisation which has been donating cricket kits in many countries. They have already taken up this activity incountries such as…
Shibasish Sahoo picked six wickets as Cuttack B bowled out Sundargarh for 124 in a preliminary one-day match of Kalahandi Cup. Sahoo’s finished with figures of 6 for 31 as Sundargarh were all out in 34 overs. Cuttack B chased down the total in 25.4 overs to win the match by four wickets. In another…
The 68th Odisha State Athletics Meet 2022 saw seven new meet records being made in the last three days, and one being a state record. On the penultimate day of the event, one new record was created by Sabita Toppo of Bhubaneswar in Girls-18 100 mtr hurdles, by clocking 14.8 sec. The old record was…
