ORGANISED BY: Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI)
DESCRIPTION:
* Cooch Behar Trophy is the National four-day cricket tournament for U-19 male players of India.
* The annual tournament was first held in the season 1945-46.
* The trophy was donated by and named after the family of the Maharaja of Cooch Behar.
* From 1945-46 to 1986-87 the Cooch Behar Trophy was a schools competition.
* It changed to an under-19 competition in 1987-88.
* The league phase of the 2022-23 tournament will take place from 5 November to 6 December 2022.
* The league phase will be followed by knock-out phase from 10 December 2022 to 3 January 2023.
* A total of 36 teams would compete in the league phase after being divided into six groups of six teams each.
* Each team would play five league matches in respective group.
* Group toppers will be ranked from 1-6 and teams ranked 1-4 will directly qualify for quarterfinals.
* Second-placed teams will be ranked from 7-12 and teams ranked 5-12 will play pre-quarterfinals.
* Teams 5 vs 12, 6 vs 11, 7 vs 10 and 8 vs 9 will qualify for quarterfinals.
* Odisha has been placed in Group C along with Haryana, Andhra, Vidarbha, Bihar and Manipur.
* Odisha Cricket Association has named a 16-member State team for the first two matches this tournament to be played against Bihar and Manipur.
* Saideep Mohapatra has been appointed as the captain of the Odisha team.
ODISHA U-19 MEN TEAM: Archisman Pattnaik, Panakala Sasanka, Saideep Mohapatra (Captain), Shreyansh Bharadwaj, Md Sohail, Sujal Kumar Singh, Dibyajyoti Pattnaik (WK), Aashirwad Swain (WK), Anshuman Sahoo, Aditya Jai Singh, Sai Prayas Pattnaik, Ashutosh Marandi, Ritesh Priyaranjan, Sovandev Behera, Shresth Singh, Swayam S Routray.
SUPPORT STAFF: GP Singh (Manager), Rashmi Ranjan Das (Coach), Shovan Deb (Bowling Coach), Swastik P Mohanty (Physio), Manoj Biswal (Trainer), Nabin Behera (Tech Analyst), Subhrajit Sahoo (Observer).
FIXTURE (Odisha matches):
November 4: Odsiha vs Bihar, Moin-ul-Haq Stadium, Patna
November 11: Odsiha vs Manipur, Kolkata
November 18: Odsiha vs Andhra, Cuttack
November 25: Odsiha vs Haryana, Cuttack
December 2: Odisha vs Vidarbha, Cuttack