Das, Sinha named Orissa captains

State Ranji team captain Shiv Sundar Das and all-round Payas Ranjan Sinha will lead Orissa ‘A’ and ‘B’ teams respectively in the 1st All-India Basant Biswal Memorial Cricket Tournament to be conducted at Cuttack from June 3 to 11. The tournament, involving four other teams from Assam, Tripura, Jharkhand and Andhra Pradesh, offers Rs 1 lakh for the winners and Rs 50,000 for the runners-up. Teams: Orissa-A: S S Das (capt), Natraj Behera, Paresh Patel, Niranjan Behera, Subit Biswal, Rashmi Ranjan Das, Rakesh Mohanty, Haladhar Das, Ansuman Gope, Debasis Mohanty, Basant Mohanty, Pritamjeet Das, Dhiraj Singh, Sukant Khatua, Alok Pradhan, Ananda Sahoo, Partha Sarathi Pattnaik. Coach: Abakash Khatua. Orissa-B: Roshan Swain, Prasanta Sahu, Sambit Rout, Lagnajit Samal, P R Sinha (capt), Sandeep Mulia, Samir Mohanty, Subhrajit Sahu, Rajesh Sethi, Biplab Samantaray, Bibhudutta Panda, Alok Sahoo, Alok Mangaraj, Deepak Behera, Sayed Zaki, Santosh Jena, Anil Buda. Coach: Daniel Rout.