Orissa team announced for East Zone Twenty20 Cricket

Cuttack-based Orissa Cricket Association (OCA) named state teams for East Zone Twenty20 Tournament and next two matches of the C K Nayudu Trophy under-22 tournament on Friday. All-rounder Rakesh Mohanty will lead Orissa in the East Zone Twenty20 Tournament for Syed Mustaq Ali Trophy to be held at Dhanbad from October 20 to 24. Orissa would play their four league matches against Assam, Tripura, Bengal and Jharkhand on October 20, 21, 23 and 24 respectively. In the C K Nayudu Trophy Tournament, Orissa would play their next two Elite Group-C matches against Rajasthan at Bhilwada from October 28 to 31 and against Karnataka at Bangalore from November 4 to 7. Earlier in their first match, Orissa beat Jammu & Kashmir by five wickets at Cuttack this week. OCA also named 12 players for Ranji Trophy selection camp to be held at Barabati Stadium, Cuttack from October 19. The performance of the Twenty20 and under-22 teams would also be taken into consideration for Ranji team’s final selection to be held on October 28. Orissa would play their first two Ranji Trophy Elite Group-A matches against Gujarat at Ahmedabad from November 3 to 6 and against Mumbai at Mumbai from November 10 to 13. ORISSA TEAMS: Twenty20: Natraj Behera, Paresh Patel, Prasanta Sahoo, Niranjan Behera, Tukuna Sahoo, Rashmi Ranjan Das, Subhrajit Sahu (wk), Rakesh Mohanty (capt), Deepak Behera, Bibhudutta Panda, Lagnajit Samal, Biplab Samantaray, Alok Sahu, Santosh Sethi. Under-22: Natraj Behera, Sandeep Mulia, Gobind Podder, Abhilash Mallick, Atish Jena (capt), Ansuman Gope (wk), Lagnajit Samal, P R Sinha, Rajesh Sethi, Bibhudutta Panda, Alok Sahoo, Ananda Sahu, Subhrajit Sahu (wk), Alok Pradhan, Dhiraj Singh. Players for Ranji camp: Shiv Sundar Das, Bikash Swarup Pati, Subit Biswal, Haladhar Das (wk), Debasis Mohanty, Basanta Mohanty, Pravanjan Mullick, Preetamjeet Das, Sukanta Khatua, P Jayachandra, Santosh Jena, Sambit Rout.