Sports News

October 16, 2008

Cricket :

Altogether thirty cricketers were selected for trial camp of Tripura Ranji team for the year 2008-09. The camp already started with 14 cricketers at Maharaja Bir Bickram Stadium on Thursday. State Ranji coach Samir Dighe will come from Mumbai on October 18 next. It was reported that Dighe was suffering by viral fever. Selected cricketers are, Rajib Datta, Tushar Saha, Subal Chowdhury, Timir Chanda, Rajesh Banik, Jayanta Debnath, Kishor Muhuri, Sudipta Saha, Gopesh Bhowmik, Abhijit Dey, Subhrajit Roy, Sanjib Saha, Nirupam Sen, Prabir Paul, Rajib Saha, Biswajit Dey, Jiban Pal, Bappa Das, Rana Datta, Kamal Debbarma, Amit Das, Nirupam Sen Chowdhury, Kushal Acharjee, Swapan Das, Nishit Shetty, Vinit Jain, Sourav Dubey, Chetan Sachdev, Monoj Singh and Anshu Lamba.

Abhijit Dey was selected to lead Tripura team for Colonel C. K. Naidu Trophy cricket tournament of under-22 boys this year. Altogether 14 cricketers were selected against Sikkim match to be held at Gangtok from October 23 next. Selected cricketers are, Abhijit Dey (Captain), Debabrata Chowdhury (Vice-captain), Subhrajit Roy, Amit Das, Saumya Banik, Rana Datta, Rakesh Debbarma (Wicket kipper), Kamal Debbarma, Dibakar Roy Sarkar, Dilip Sing, Rakesh Sharma, Rakesh Saha, Sanjib Saha and Tapan Dey. Stand by – Abhinandan Roy, Nishitosh Roy, Nitish Chowdhury, Pradip Debbarma, Anupam Dey. Coach : Biswajit Paul.

Kushal Acharjee was selected to lead Tripura team for Vinoo Mankad Trophy cricket tournament of under-19 boys this year. Altogether 14 cricketers were selected for one-day tournament to be held at Kolkata from October 20 next. Selected cricketers are, Kushal Acharjee (Captain), Nirupam Sen Chowdhury (Vice-captain), Samrat Singha, Amit Jadav, Suman Majumder, Mani Sankar Murasing, Nirupam Sen (Wicket kipper), Swapan Das, Samir Debbarma, Prabir Paul, Ajoy Saha, Sulabh Majumder, Abhijit Chakraborty & Kisaloy Chakraborty. Stand by – Pallab Debroy, Sujit Debnath, Subrata Das, Dulan Tripura. Coach : Alok Debroy.