OCA U-16 Inter-District Cricket Tournament begins

Cuttack-A, Bhubaneswar-A and Balasore won respective preliminary group league matches on the opening day of the Under-16 Boys Inter-District Cricket Tournament at different grounds here today. A total of 36 teams are taking part in this tournament, which is being organised by Odisha Cricket Association.

Cuttack-A beat Nayagarh by four wickets, Bhubaneswar-A demolished Ganjam by 10 wickets and Balsore hammered Koraput by 210 runs. The three matches of the day were officiated by umpires Chudamani Padhi, Sabyasachi Saha, Pradeep Jena, Sambit Pattnaik, CP Mohapatra, Anand Sahu and scorers Biswa Ranjan Das, Rashmi Ranjan Malla, Govinda Behera).

BRIEF SCORE:

Match No 1
(Ravenshaw Ground-II): Nayagarh 99/10 in 32.3 overs (Soumya R Srichandan 36; Pratyush Das 4/19, Saideep Mohapatra 3/18, BLS Bajrangi 2/13) lost to Cuttack-A 100/6 in 14.1 overs (Biswajit Patra 31*, Jagyanjit Sahoo 30; Ankit Arunab 2/22) by 4 wkts.

Match No 2
(Sunshine Ground): Ganjam 39/10 in 19.1 overs (Sarthak Sourav Kumar 5/10, Sai Subham 2/2, Ashutosh Nayak 2/13) lost to Bhubaneswar-A 42/0 in 55 overs (Sudarshan Swain 19*) by 10 wkts.

Match No 3
(Bidanasi Ground): Balasore 304/10 in 49.3 overs (Suman Ojha 67, Suva Shankar Barik 37, Subhrajeet Jena 34, Sanjiban Behera 33, Arun Rout 32, Sk Sahil 21; Subham Mohapatra 3/42, Subham Jha 2/64) beat Koraput 94/10 in 27.1 overs (Vishnu Vardhan Patra 27, Anshuman Pattnaik 21; Anubhav Jasoria 4/29, Suva Sundar Barik 2/0) by 210 runs.

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