Govinda Bhaktiranjan Poddar (born 9 September 1991) is an Indian
cricket
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er. Poddar is a right-handed
batsman
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who also bowls right-arm
off break
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. He has played
first-class and
List A cricket
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for
Odisha
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,
East Zone and
India A
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. Govinda Poddar is one of those rare cricketers to have scored a hundred on his first class debut. It happened against Baroda in November 2010. And List A debut against Tripura in 2009. Since then he has been a regular in the Odisha Ranji Trophy side. He is very prolific and consistent batsman throughout and across all format for Odisha. This man from Rourkela (Sundergarh) was handed over the captaincy for the shorter formats at the start of 2016 and then took over captaincy for the 2016-17 Ranji season. Odisha had a dream run as they made it to the quarter-finals of the tourney after 15 years. He represented India Red after scoring tons of run in Vijay Hazare trophy 2016–17. He also represented India Board President XI against Australia.
He was the leading run-scorer for Odisha for several years starting from 2011 and continuing across all the format. Eye catching in the year
2016–17 Vijay Hazare Trophy
The 2016–17 Vijay Hazare Trophy was the 24th edition of the Vijay Hazare Trophy, an annual List A cricket tournament in India. It was held between 25 February and 20 March 2017. Tamil Nadu won the tournament, beating Bengal
Bengal ( ...
, with 359 runs in six matches. He was ranked 8 in the top 10 list of highest runs scorer of India in Vijay Hazare trophy 2016–17.
Now he is married to his nursery schoolmate childhood friend and his long time lover Bandita Sahu.
He is serving his duty as Captain of Odisha Cricket (Ranji trophy and Syed Mustaq Ali trophy 2024-2025)
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1991 births
Living people
Indian cricketers
Odisha cricketers
East Zone cricketers
People from Rourkela
Cricketers from Odisha