KALAHANDI CUP FINAL-1965-66

This is a group photograph of Cuttack and Ganjam cricket team at Barabati Stadium just before the 1965-66 cup final.sanjoy is in the third row standing 2nd from right.Sitting front row>L to R:Ausula Murty,2nd and 3rd can't remember,4thPVRMurty,5thLIParija,6thBisudha Jena,next to him is Founder of Barabati Stadium, actually the stadium should have been named after this gentle man7th Bhirab Mohanty,(instead of Sachin Tendulkar's name in the indoor stadium at least Bhirab Mohanty name should have been there. 8thNNSwamy,9thPKPattnaik,10thBanabasi Pattnaik,11thcan't say,12th Sasanka Pattanaik,13th can't say
Standing 1st row:3rd.Ashok Jena,6thSSMishra,8th Madan Mohanty,9th Murty,11th Rajaya Bosi,12th sikdar senior,Ashok Nanda,Alok jena
2nd rwo standing:4th Jadu Patro,8th Y.Rath,9th HSRathod,10th sanjoy satpathy,11th Chinu Jena
CUttack won the 3 day finals comfortably due to sanjoy satpathy's lethal swing bowling and a century by Bisudha Jena.from 1965 till his retirement from cricket sanjoy was in the winners team.He played for Paralakhemundi,Mayurbhanj,Cuttack,Bhubaneswar and lastly for Rourkela steel plant.He has taken more than 100 wickets in this tournament next to N.N.Swamy .No man of the match, no money.Even for the Ranji matches the players used to come by bicycle or rickshaw.The Orissa team will be declared at 5pm and the team would leave by 8:30pm same evening by Puri Express with out reservations.