Papu, Aman get berths in U-23 cricket team

Papu Roy and Aman Shashtri were included in the Odisha team for the knock-out round of the Inter-State Under-23 Men’s One-day Tournament, scheduled to be held at Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh from February 4 to 13, 2018.

Papu and Aman replaced Choudhury and Jamela Bhanjan Mohapatra in the 15-member team that emerged champions in the East Zone League, winning all of their four matches. Subhranshu Senapati will continue to lead the team, which is scheduled to meet a qualifier from North-East in pre-quarterfinal No 3 on February 6.

ODISHA U-23 TEAM: Debasis Samantray, Subhranshu Senapati (Captain), Amrit Khatua, Sandeep Pattnaik, Debendra Singh Kunwar, Rajesh Dhuper (WK), Debabrata Pradhan, Asutosh Das, Subham Nayak, Raj Kishan Patel, Ranjit Paikray, Tarakant Samal, Soubhagya Ranjan Mishra, Papu Roy, Aman Shashtri.
Support Staff: Bishnudev Mohanty (Manager), Suresh Kumar (Coach), Biswajit Mohapatra (Physio), Purnendu Jena (Trainer).