CUTTACK 09-Feb-2016
Odisha allrounder Madhusmita Behera will lead a 16-member East Zone team in the BCCI Senior Women Inter-Zonal (Three-day) Tournament, scheduled to take place at Guntur from February 26 to March 16. Besides Madhusmita, five more players from Odisha have found berths in the Senior East Zone team. They are: Swagatika Rath, Madhuri Meheta, Sushree Dibyadarshini Pradhan, Kadambini Mohakud and Sujata Mallick.
Similarly, promising Odisha allrounder Sushree Dibyadarshini Pradhan has been named as the vice-captain of 16-member East Zone team for the BCCI U-23 Women Inter-Zonal (One-day) Tournament, which is set to be conducted at Raipur and Bhilai from February 16 to 21.
Besides Sushree, three more players from Odisha _ Pragyan Paramita Mohanty, Sujata Mallick and Sunita Murmu _ have been included in the East Zone U-23 team, which will be led by Shaika Ishaque (Bengal). Players of the East Zone U-23 team have been instructed to report at OCA office on February 11 by 10 am. The team will leave for Raipur by train on February 13.
Players for both the teams were chosen in the meeting of East Zone Selection Committee here at OCA Club, Barabati Stadium today. Odisha Cricket Association (OCA) secretary and East Zone convener Asirbad Behera, national selector Lopamudra Banerjee and East Zone selectors Santosh Kumar Das (Odisha), Anju Jain (Assam), Mithu Mukherjee (Bengal), Deepak Kumar (Jharkhand) and Pannalal Chakraborty (Tripura) attended the meeting.
EAST ZONE U-23 WOMEN TEAM: Shaika Ishaque, Tanushree Sarkar, Sukanya Parida, Aparna Mondal, Priya Pandey, Sabana Khatun, Ambika Guha(all Bengal); Sushree Dibyadarshini Pradhan, Pragyan Paramita Mohanty, Sujata Mallick, Sunita Murmu (all Odisha); Ritu Kumari, Monika Murmu (both Jharkhand); Reema Chakraborty, Nikita Debnath (both Tripura); Rekha Rani Borah (Assam). Coach: Pratima Chakraborty (Bengal), Assistant coach: Shrabani Debnath (Tripura), Trainer: Pravat Nayak (Odisha), Physio: Jury Dutta (Assam), Manager: Santosh Das (Odisha).
EAST ZONE SENIOR WOMEN TEAM: Madhusmita Behera, Swagatika Rath, Madhuri Meheta, Sushree Dibyadarshini Pradhan, Kadambini Mohakud, Sujata Mallick (all Odisha); Priyanka Roy, Aparna Mondal, Mandira Mohapatra, Tanushree Sarkar, Shaika Ishaque, Sukanya Parida (all Bengal); Niharika Prasad, Ritu Kumari (both Jharkhand); Rekha Rani Borah (Assam), Reema Chakraborty (Tripura). Coach-cum-manager: Anju Jain (Assam), Assistant coach: Charanjit Kaur (Jharkhand), Physio: Sheetal Mohanty (Odisha), Trainer: Priyanka Mondal (Bengal).
