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Cuttack, Dec 9: Orissa had a poor start to their campaign in the All India Callaghan Cup Rugby tournament as two of the state teams suffered defeats on the inaugural day at the Barabati Stadium here, Wednesday.
In a Pool A match, KISS went down 17-19 to CRPF. The match was a keenly-contested affair, which went down the wire. However, in a Pool D match, Kalinga Rugby Club suffered a humiliating 0-64 loss against Mumbai Magicians.
In other matches, Delhi Lions thumped Jammu and Kashmir 44-0 and Sergeant Police thrashed Rajasthan 71-0. Altogether 300 players and 20 officials from 12 states across the country are participating in the tournament.
Colts go down
Orissa colts suffered a four- wicket loss against Assam in a match of the U-16 Vijay Merchant Trophy at Guwahati, Wednesday. By virtue of this win, Assam bagged six points.
Assam overcame initial hiccups to knock off the required target of 117 for the loss of six wickets with Sambhab Jain (41, 104b, 5×4) leading the run chase. Binit Kumar Mohanty (2/34) bowled well for Orissa.
Earlier Orissa resuming at their overnight score of 71/4 could add only 52 runs to their total getting all out in the process. Barring Khyamasagar Bal (36, 62b, 6×4) all the other Orissa batters faltered. Rituraj Biswas (5/27) was the wrecker-in-chief for Assam.