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Ashish Kumar Mallick scored 97 off 104 balls as Rourkela put up 347 for 7 in their first innings against Rest of Odisha-1 at Nimpur Ground in Cuttack on Friday. Along with skipper Mallick, a fine unbeaten 72 was scored by Abhisek Mohanty with Adarsh Raiguru also scoring a fifty in the ongoing two-day format…
Odisha Cricket Association (OCA) on Wednesday unveiled new jersey for the Odisha state teams. MGM Minerals Limited will be the official apparel partner along with being the official sponsor of the state teams for the 2021-22 season. Pankaj Lochan Mohanty (president, OCA), Sanjay Behera (secretary, OCA), Bikash Pradhan (treasurer, OCA), Subrat Kumar Behera (CEO, OCA),…
Bhubaneswar: ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel India (AM/NS India), a joint venture between the two firms, has been named the official partner for the FIH Odisha Hockey Men’s Junior World Cup, reported IANS. AM/NS India has signed an agreement in this regard with Hockey India. India, which also hosted the last Men’s Junior Hockey World Cup in…
Odisha are out of the Senior Women’s One-Day Trophy after losing their quarterfinal match against the Railways by 149 runs in Bengaluru on Monday. Opting to bat, Railways scored 271 for 9 in 50 overs, with S Meghana scoring 90 and Nuzhat Parween 62. For Odisha, Priyanka Priyadarshini picked three wickets while Rasanara Parwin and…
Paralympian Pramod Bhagat received the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award from the President of India. He became the first Odia to get a Khel Ratna. While Tokyo Games’ bronze medallists and Odisha hockey players Birendra Lakra and Amit Rohidas received the Arjuna Award. Double crown East Coast Railway clinched a double crown by winning…
Odisha entered the quarterfinals with a 13-run win over Uttar Pradesh in the Senior Women’s One-day Trophy at Alur Stadium in Bengaluru. Odisha made 100 for 5 with Madhuri Meheta scoring 31, however, in the run-chase Uttar Pradesh floundered and were all out for 87 in 21.4 overs. Rasanara Parwin picked three wickets and Priyanka…
The Odisha Cricket Association (OCA) will kickstart its domestic calendar for the year 2022-23 with senior men intra-club competitions within the window of 15 November-15 December. The decision was made during the apex council meeting of the OCA on Monday. The player registration has already started from 1 November and will continue till 12 November….
Led by Sandeep Pattnaik, Odisha have picked up a 22-member squad for the upcoming BCCI U-25 One-day Trophy to be played from 20 November to 26 November, in Rajkot. The Team will travel to Rajkot on November 12 and will play against Vidarbha, Hyderabad, Andhra, Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka in the Elite-A Group. The team…
Odisha lost their fifth and final match to Pondicherry by six wickets of Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy, being played in Lucknow on Tuesday. Having won just one game in the league phase, Odisha are placed fifth in their Elite Group-A. Putting in Odisha to bat, Subodh Bhati picked four wickets and Bharat Bhusan Sharma two…
Cuttack: A U-19 football tournament has been organised by Cuttack District Athletic Association from Nov 13 to Nov 26. The tournament will be played at the Sayeed Seminery School Ground here in a league-cum-knockout format. Two matches will be played on the weekends (Saturday and Sunday), with the first match at 2:30PM and the second…
