Keen contest on cards

CUTTACK, March 3: Orissa will be looking forward to open their account in the Ranji Trophy super-league. The hosts lost both their earlier matches to Mumbai and Karnataka, the present and former champions.

Orissa will be eager to earn their first points when they meet Railways in the four-day Group A match from Wednesday at the Barabati Stadium. Railways, too, lost their first two matches to the same teams but earned five points aginst Punjab, taking the first innings lead in the last encounter.

Teams (from): Orissa: Shiv Sundar Das (captain), BBCC Mohapatra, P Jayachandra, Rashmi Ranjan Parida, Gautam Gopal (wicket-keeper), Pravanjan Mallick, Pradip Das, Robin Morris, Subash Mohanty, Shahid Khan, Ajay Barik, Yashpal Mohanty, Jagannath Das, Satyakumar Satpathy.

Railways: Sanjay Bangar (captain), Suresh Kumar, Prahlad Rawat, Zakaria Zufri (wicket-keeper), Satyandra Yadav, Vishal Sharma, Yere Goud, Saket Bhatia, Zakir Hussain, Javed Zaman, Jaswinder Singh, Arvind Kapoor, and Javed Alam.