Puri: Rajesh Nayak of Puri emerged champion in the All Orissa Open Chess tournament which concluded at a city hotel here Sunday.
Rajesh finished with eight points while Rajendra Kumar Sahu (7.5 points) of Khurda finished second. Vaibhav Mishra , Manoj Kumar Panigrahi, both from Puri and Ansuman Samal of Cuttack (all seven points each) finished in third, fourth and fifth positions respectively.
Orissa in command
Rajesh Mohanty (5/59) of Orissa wrecked havoc to leave Jharkhand reeling on 227/9 at the end of first day’s play of their U-19 Cooch Behar Trophy match here at the Vikas Ground in Bargarh, Sunday.
Put into bat, Jharkhand made a disastrous start losing their top three wickets for just 20 runs. Shresht Sagar (33) along with skipper Atul Singh Surwar (19) steadied the ship with a 46-run partnership for the fourth wicket before the later’s departure.
Amar Kumar Choudhury (48) and Vivek Anand Tiwary (34) then played a good hand down the order to take the score past the 200-run mark. For the hosts, Rajesh was ably supported by Shibasish Sahoo (2/19).
Team announced
Orissa Cricket Association (OCA) announced Sunday, a 15-member squad for the U-16 Vijay Merchant Trophy match against Tripura at the Nimpur Ground in Cuttack, December 19-21.
The squad: Surya Mohapatra (C), Binayak Mohanty, Prince Sanket Behera, Biswajit Patra, Anwesh Tripathy, Siddharth Nayak, Pratyush Pradhan, Sambit Sourav Baral, Bikash Naik, Sushil Barik, Santanu Debata, Ashutosh Chhuria, Suraj Behera, Subham Shree, Basant Singh Rathore: Coach: Subrat Behera.
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