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Para Olympics gold Medallist and a shuttler from badminton academy of East Coast Railway Sports Association (ECoRSA), Pramod Bhagat was felicitated on Wednesday for his feat in Tokyo. He was felicitated by ECoRSA general secretary and deputy general manager/ECoR Ashoka Mishra at Railway Indoor Stadium, in presence of other members of the badminton academy of…
Biplab Samantray scored an unbeaten 109 and powered Cuttack-A to a 82-run victory over ECORSA in the final of the Kalahandi Cup at Ravenshaw Ground on Wednesday. Opting to field, Cuttack-A restricted ECORSA to 174 with Subham Nayak and Jamala Mohapatra picking three wickets each. For ECORSA, Ankit Yadav scored 94. In reply, Cuttack-A scored…
Chhattisgarh made clean sweep of the five-match T20 warm-up series, beating Odisha by 34 runs in the fifth and final match at Raipur Stadium on Tuesday. The senior men’s team is playing preparatory matches against Chhattisgarh as part of their campaign for the upcoming Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy. Opting to bat, Chhattisgarh made 171 for…
Odisha lost their fourth successive T20 warm-up match against Chhattisgarh by five wickets at Raipur on Monday. The senior men’s team is playing preparatory matches against Chhattisgarh as part of their campaign for the upcoming Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy. Opting to bat, Odisha scored 148/6 in 20 overs, with Abhishek Yadav scoring an unbeaten 58…
Kishore Kumar Jena has made Odisha proud by bagging gold medal in the 3rd National Open Javelin Throw Championships at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, held at New Delhi. This is the first National title for Jena who achieved the feat with a throw of 74.26m on Sunday. On Saturday, Jena had topped the list of 12…
New Delhi: Odisha’s Kishore Kumar Jena topped the list of 12 men’s finalists with an easy effort of 70.96m in qualifying in the third National Open Javelin Throw Championships at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium here on Saturday. He recorded his career-best throw of 76.41m in Bhubaneswar last month and just missed a podium finish in…
Chhattisgarh won their third successive warm-up T20 game against Odisha by 10 wickets, played at Raipur Stadium on Saturday. Odisha senior men’s team is playing preparatory matches against Chhattisgarh as part of their campaign for the upcoming Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy. Put in to bat, Odisha managed to score only 118 for 8 in 20…
Subhra Nirjharani Swain of Odisha Cricket Association’s emerging U-19 Women contingent, has been selected for the upcoming U-19 BCCI Women’s One-Day Challenger Trophy, set to begin from 2 November in Jaipur. She is set to travel and link up with her squad on 25 October before undergoing a quarantine Period, in line with the BCCI’s…
The 21-member Odisha team led by Madhusmita Behera left for Pune on Saturday to take part in the upcoming BCCI Senior Women One-Day (Elite-B) tournament, which starts 31 October. Odisha will be playing against Tamil Nadu, Chandigarh, Mumbai, Uttarakhand and Railways. The team will undergo a quarantine period from 28 October to 29 October and…
Odisha’s junior and senior teams are dominating the national hockey championships with two successive wins for both the sides. The senior team started their national championship campaign in Jhansi by beating Himachal Pradesh 18-0. Dipti Lakra starred for Odisha by scoring six goals. In the second match, the odisha team defeated Chhatisgarh 3-0. Janhabi Pradhan,…
