Tag: Odisha Cricket Association

The Odisha Cricket Association (OCA) is all set to go for polls on October 28. The polling will be held for the posts of president, vice president, secretary, joint secretary, treasurer and member of the apex council of OCA. While the filing of nomination will be held on 21 October, candidates can withdraw their nominations on 23rd October.

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Bhubaneswar: An international wicket-keeper, coach and also a cricket commentator. Vijay Dahiya has donned many hats. Recently he was in Bhubaneswar to call the Vizzy Trophy Final live for Star Sports. This was the first occasion that the inter-zonal university cricket championship played in the ‘Temple City’ was aired live on a national television channel […]

Wasim Jaffer has joined as the chief coach of Odisha cricket team

Bhubaneswar: The CBI continued its investigation in connection with the alleged misrepresentation of age by junior cricket players of Odisha and inspected some documents at Bhadrak Municipality Office today. The inspection was carried out following an earlier notice sent to 10 municipalities in the State. Yesterday, CBI verified the documents of some players at the […]

Bhubaneswar: The 3 ODIs and 3 T20s to be played between Indian Women Cricket Team (A) and Bangladesh Women’s Team in Odisha was called off due to lack of proper lodging facilities in Bhubaneswar. Odisha Cricket Association (OCA) working committee chairman Dhiren Palei on Friday informed that the matches scheduled to be held in Bhubaneswar […]

Bhubaneswar: Twin city Police Commissioner YB Khurania reviewed the security arrangements for the international T20 cricket match between India and Sri Lanka in the upcoming Paytm Series to be played at Barabati Stadium in Cuttack on December 20. The meeting held at the headquarters of Commissionerate Police in Bhubaneswar was attended by various senior police […]

Cuttack: Odisha Cricket Association (OCA) is hopeful of getting the requisite infrastructure ready for the upcoming international T20 match between India and Sri Lanka to be played at Barabati stadium on December 20. Senior officials claimed that already preliminary preparations for the much awaited T20 match has begun. As the team India led by skipper […]

Cuttack: Odisha Cricket Association (OCA) on Thursday dropped Anurag Kanojia, a U-19 player, for alleged discrepancies in the documents submitted by him as proof of age. The officials of the association confirmed that the decision to drop Kanojia was taken after a deviation was found in the date of birth in the certificates and documents […]

Cuttack: After taking a unanimous decision to abide by the reforms recommended by the Supreme Court-appointed Lodha Committee, officials of the Odisha Cricket Association (OCA) today filed an affidavit in the apex court on implementation of the recommendations. As per the recommendations of the Lodha Committee, elections to the post of various office bearers of […]

Cuttack: Hopes of cricket lovers in Odisha to enjoy a T-20 match at their home ground Barabati Stadium were dashed after Odisha Cricket Association (OCA) today expressed helplessness to organise the match scheduled for November 4. In a letter to BCCI, the State cricket body said the scheduled match between India and New Zealand is […]

Cuttack: The former secretary of the Odisha Cricket Association (OCA) Ashirbad Behera on Saturday rubbished the allegations of financial irregularity in OCA. At a press conference here, Behera said, “Even the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) audit report has no such mention about it. I don’t know how such report of irregularity […]

Cuttack: The Odisha Cricket Association (OCA) today formed a five-member internal managing committee to manage its activities. A decision to this effect was taken at an emergency meeting of the OCA at its office in Barabati Stadium premises here in the presence of former OCA secretary Asirbad Behera, president Ranjib Biswal and all 67 former […]

Cuttack: The Odisha Cricket Association (OCA) today recommended the name of 10 players the state to the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) for their auction in the 10th edition of the Indian Premiere League (IPL) starting from April 5. The 10 players are Biplab Samantray, Gobinda Poddar, Suryakanta Pradhan, Dipak Behera, Basant […]

Bhuaneswar: The India and England teams arrived in Bhubaneswar on Wednesday for the second One Day International (ODI) of Paytm series scheduled to be held at Barabati Stadium in Cuttack on January 19. The players came to Hotel Mayfair from the city airport in box carcade format. The Commissionerate Police have made elaborate security arrangements […]