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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…
The Cricket Advisory Committee of Odisha Cricket Association has selected the members of the selection Committee (Junior & Senior). Pravanjan Mullick has been appointed chairman of the senior selection committee while Amiya Ray will head the junior selection committee. Bikash Pati will resign from his position as selector because currently he is the coach of…
Kalahandi Cup 2022-23 has been scheduled to start from April 9 at different venues in Cuttack, Bhubaneswar and Khurdha. The 37 districts have been divided into three groups as Diamond, Gold and Silver based on their ratings/NRR of last season Kalahandi Cup. Each group is again divided into two tiers Diamond A & Diamond B,…
A T20 Cricket League will be held for both men and women, it was decided at Odisha Cricket Association’s (OCA) apex council meeting on Saturday. Starting this year, OCA will institute a “Lifetime Achievement” award, wherein the awardee will receive Rs 5 lakh. For this year, the award will be given to Prashant Mohapatra. Pankaj…
Ashok Dandsena of Odisha Police created a new state record in 5000 mtr by clocking a time of 14min:49.4sec at the 68th Odisha State Athletics Meet 2022. The old record was 15min:05.2 sec in the name of TK Tirkey, which was created in the year 1980. A new meet record was created by Omkar Prasad…
Odisha registered their second consecutive win in the league stage of CK Nayudu Trophy, by beating Hyderabad by 132 runs on Saturday. On day four, Hyderabad’s second innings folded for 167, with Tarini SA picking a five-wicket haul. Put in to bat at St. Xavier’s KCA Cricket Ground in Trivandrum, Odisha scored 345 in their…
