HOST: Odisha Circle Postal Sports Board (Bhubaneswar)
DESCRIPTION:
* Altogether 15 postal circles, including defending champions Gujarat, last year`s runners-up Rajasthan and host Odisha will take part in the tournament.
* Ranji Trophy players will be seen in action during the tournament.
* Chief Postmaster General (Odisha Circle) S K Chakrabarti is the organising committee chairman.
* Matches in league stage will be of 20-overs-per-side affair, while the semifinals and final will be of 40-over-per-side contests.
* League and semifinal matches will be played at Railway Stadium, IDCO ground (both Bhubaneswar), Ravenshaw University ground and Nimpur ground (both Cuttack).
* Final match will take place under lights at Barabati Stadium in Cuttack.
* The five-day tournament will serve as the basis for selection of Indian Postal team for the India Post Cup Cricket Tournament to be held in April at Vadodara.
* A 16-member team will represent host Odisha in the all-India tournamentl
TEAM ODISHA: Jagannath Sarangi, Rabindra Pattnaik, Trilochan Patra, Jiban Ballav Samal, Nilamani Dehury, Deepak Rout, Pranab K Rout, Seikh Saratuddin, Pawan Kumar Singh, S Krishna Sethi, Suvrakash Nayak, Aditya K Jena, CH Saptagiri, Rakesh K Swain, Lingaraj Sahoo, Manoj K Mahanta. Coach: Debanand Pattnaik, Manager: Sasanka Sekhar Samant.