BHUBANESWAR 28-Feb-2014 168
SRM University retained the title, defeating Ravenshaw University by six wickets in the final of the 5th SOA Premier League Inter-University T20 Cricket Tournament at the SOA University stadium here tonight. SRM skipper S Dinesh was adjudged the player of the tournament as well as the man of the final match.
Member of Parliament, Prasanna Patsani gave away the trophies as well as the cash award of Rs one lakh to the winners and Rs 50,000 to the runner-up. In keeping with SOA University`s policy of promotion of sports, two budding under-16 cricketers of the state, Sandeep Patnaik and Subham Nayak were also felicitated on the occasion and presented with cash incentives of Rs 25,000 each.
Altogether 12 universities participated in the tournament, which was organised by Siksha `O` Anusandhan University (SOA) from February 23. The event was inaugurated by Odisha Ranji team`s pace spearhead Basant Mohanty.
BRIEF SCORES:
FEBRUARY 23:
Match No 1: Lovely Professional University (LPU) 167/10 in 20 overs (Amit Sundar 60; Mahendra Sarmath 3/41, Debasis Das 2/19) beat Orissa University of Agriculture & Technology (OUAT) 167/10 in 20 overs (Jitendra 45; Rishav Muthoo 3/24) in super over.
Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology, Burla 101/10 in 20 overs (A Rout 3/20, S Dhir 3/28) lost to Utkal University 104/2 in 12.4 overs (P Pramanik 46, Soubhagya 35) by 8 wkts.
FEBRUARY 24:
Jadavpur University 204/4 in 20 overs (A Basu 55, N Ghose 53; B Behen 2/34) beat BPUT 76/10 in 12.2 overs (A Khan 5/13) by 128 runs.
Ravenshaw University 158/9 in 20 overs (S Mohanty 76 n.o, P Thakur 31; S Tandi 3/36) beat OUAT 80/10 in 15.4 overs (R Jena 20; S Sharma 2/8, P Thakur 2/13, D Swain 2/16) by 78 runs.
SOA University 218/7 in 20 overs (Avinash Bhuyan 56, Sarthak Das 53; Palash 3/45) beat DTU 165/7 in 20 overs (Aastik Chawla 42, Karan Narang 33; Kundan Prajapati 3/23, Sk Mazhar 2/24) by 53 runs.
FEBRUARY 25:
Ravenshaw University 144/8 in 20 overs (Bibhu Prasad 34; Amit Sundar 2/35) beat LPU 117/10 in 18 overs (Suraj 38, Deepak 37; Siddharth Sinha 4/17) by 27 runs.
Gitam University 212/9 in 20 overs (Avinab Sagar 109; K Narang 5/43) beat DTU 146/10 in 19.4 overs (Avinab Jain 62; Yashwant Jasti 3/29) by 66 runs.
Andhra University 157/10 in 19.4 overs (G Saleh 38, Yellaji 25; Sukalyan 3/13, Anurag Khan 3/34) lost to Jadavpur University 161/2 in 15.4 overs (Nabendu Ghose 86, Parikshi Dhal 40) by 8 wkts.
SRM University 185/5 in 20 overs (Asish Kumar 55, S.Dinesh 53; Gourav Mohapatra 2/18) beat Utkal University 163/9 in 20 overs (Girija Rout 62, Priyatosh Pramanik 34; Sunny Singh 2/23, ATalwar 2/25, AC Prativan 2/27) by 22 runs.
FEBRUARY 26:
SRM University 172/6 in 20 overs (Sunny Singh 55, Pradeep Kumar 51; Sujit 2/27) beat VSSUT 112/10 (Kalyan 30; Asiq 3/7) by 60 runs.
FEBRUARY 27:
Gitam University 171/9 in 20 overs (T Sai Dinesh 58; Kundan Prajapati 4/23, Abinash Bhuyan 3/26) beat SOA University 162/10 in 19.1 overs (Sarthak Mohapatra 34, Kundan Prajapati 29; Kishan 3/19) by 9 runs.
1st Semifinal: SRM University 218/5 in 20 overs (Martin Sanjeev 129; Arpan Mazumdar 2/31) beat Jadavpur University 137/10 in 14.4 overs (Akash Basu 69, Nabendu Ghosh 38; SSrinivas 3/26) by 81 runs.
2nd Semifinal: Ravenshaw University 188/6 in 20 overs (Prayas Kumar 65; Deepesh 3/26) beat Gitam University 125/10 in 19 overs (Sai Prasad 35; Piyush Mohanty 3/18) by 63 runs.
FEBRUARY 28 (Final): Ravenshaw University 136/8 in 20 overs (Bibhu Mohanty 25; Abhishek Tanwar 3/25) lost to SRM University 138/4 in 15.2 overs (S Dinesh 71; Lokanath Das 2/28) by 6 wkts.
