BHUBANESWAR 10-Oct-2016
Two players from Odisha have been included in the 15-member East Zone team for the Vinoo Mankad Trophy U-19 Inter-Zonal Tournament, scheduled to be held at Una and Santokhgarh in Himachal Pradesh from October 17 to 23, 2016. The two players are Raghunath Malla and Saurabh Rawat.
Anukul Roy (Jharkhand) will lead the East Zone team with Pradipta Pramanik (Bengal) as his deputy. The team was finalized in the meeting of the zonal selection committee, held at Dhanbad after the conclusion of the East Zone league today.
Rashmi Ranjan Parida (Odisha) was the convener of the meeting, which was attended by chairman Ashish Kapoor along with members Ajay Ratra (Assam), Uday Bhanu Banerjee (Bengal), Manish Vardhan (Jharkhand) and Sapan Das (Tripura). East Zone will play their first match against Central Zone at Santokhgarh on October 18.
EAST ZONE U-19 TEAM: Ankur Paul, Sudip Kumar Gharami, Pradipta Pramanik, Arikta Das (all Bengal); Sagar Shresth, Anukul Roy, Vivekanand Tiwary (all Jharkhand); Raghunath Malla, Saurabh Rawat (both Odisha); Erik Roy, Dharani Rabha, Riyan Parag (all Assam); Sabir Khan (North East); Dipayan Debbarma, Joy Deb (both Tripura).
Stand-byes: Anmol Bonny, Tahmeed (both North East), Rahul Singh (Assam), Mitan Debbarma (Tripura), Vivek Kumar (Jharkhand), Umesh Yadav (Odisha).
