2020-21 Odisha Cricket League

The 2020-21 Odisha Cricket League was the inaugural edition of the OCL, a franchise Twenty20 cricket league in Odisha, India.The league was organised by the Odisha Cricket Association in 2023. The tournament was played between 27 December 2020 to 13 January 2021.

2020-21 Odisha Cricket League

Dates	27 December 2020 – 13 January 2021
Administrator(s)	Odisha Cricket Association
Cricket format	Twenty20
Tournament format(s)	Double round-robin and playoffs
Host(s)	Cuttack, Odisha, India
Champions	Odisha Panthers (2nd title)
Runners-up	Odisha Lions
Participants	6
Matches	34
Most runs	Abhishek Yadav (340)
Most wickets	Alok Sahoo (24)
Official website	OCL

Teams

Team	Coach	Captain
Odisha Tigers		Debasish Samantray
Odisha Lions		Sujit Lenka
Odisha Cheetahs		Anurag Sarangi
Odisha Jaguars		Girjia Rout
Odisha Panthers		Basant Mohanty
Odisha Pumas		Arabind Singh

Squads

Players with international caps/IPL caps are marked in bold.

Odisha Tigers	Odisha Lions	Odisha Cheetahs	Odisha Jaguars	Odisha Panthers	Odisha Pumas
Debasish Samantray (C) Amin Khan Ayush Naik B Shiva Dibyashakti Chakrabarty (Wk) Girija Sankar Barik Harshit Rathod Minal Parida Rajkishan Patel Rakesh Gochhayat (Wk) Rupak Pradhan Samir Mandal Sangram Majhi Sanjay Das Shekhar Majhi Uttsab Bhoi	Sujit Lenka (C) & (Wk) Abhisek Giri Ajay Goura (Wk) Alok Mangaraj Ansuman Tripathy Bikash Rout Biswabhusan Bihari Chinmay Sahoo Deepak Behera Durgaprasad Behera Nauttam Bhanja Rakesh Pattanaik Sibhasish Sahoo Subhrajyoti Mishra Swastik Samal	Anurag Sarangi (C) Abhishek Raut Abhijeet Hota Amit Sahoo (Wk) Badal Bhol Korapu Sandeep Prasanta Baral (Wk) Manish Raut Manoj Barik Maroju Prasanth Mojakir Khan Mrunmay Tripathy Ramachandra Behera Ronald B Singh Sourav Gouda (Wk) Suman Mohapatra (Wk)	Girjia Rout ( c ) Abhijit Barik Anwesh Das Bibhu Mallick (Wk) Dibya Das G Chandrasekhar Kshyama Bal (Wk) Lagnajit Samal Manoj Kashyap Nihar Bhuyan Nirbishankar Barik Rahul Choudhary Rashmi Sahoo Sandeep Chauhan Shamsul Khan Sunil Sahoo	Basant Mohanty (C) Abhishek Yadav Alok Sahoo Ankit Singh Ashutosh Das Binit Mohanty Chandramani Biswal Dinesh Srivastav Jayanta Behera Krushna Barik (Wk) Nisikanta Rout Pradeep Pradhan Ranjit Paikaray (Wk) Sidhant Jena Sparsh Somani Subham Nayak	Arabind Singh (C) Abhinash Nayak Badal Nishad Debashis Mahakud Dhiraj Singh Jitendra Thapa Kameswar Barik (Wk) Illu Gocchayat Prasanta Rana Pratik Das Pravin Tirkey Prayash Singh Purnachandra Majhi Sandeep Pattnaik Soubhagya Mohanty (Wk) Tukuna Sahoo

Venues

Odisha
Cuttack
Barabati Stadium
Capacity:45,000
Matches: 34

Points table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	NR	Pts	NRR
1	Odisha Panthers (C)	10	9	1	0	36	0.476
2	Odisha Lions (R)	10	6	4	0	24	0.733
3	Odisha Pumas	10	6	4	0	24	0.087
4	Odisha Tigers	10	4	6	0	16	−0.103
5	Odisha Cheetahs	10	4	6	0	16	−0.611
6	Odisha Jaguars	10	1	9	0	4	−0.583

Source: Cricket.com
(C) Champion; (R) Runners-up

•   The top four sides advanced to the semi-finals.
• Points – Win 4, No Result 2.

Playoffs

	Semi-finals					Final
	1	Odisha Panthers	121/5 (19.5)
	4	Odisha Tigers	117/9 (20)
						SFW1	Odisha Panthers	115/4 (19.1)
						SFW2	Odisha Lions	113/9 (20)
	2	Odisha Lions	172/2 (20)
	3	Odisha Pumas	97/10 (18.2)

Semi-finals

12 January 2021 15:45 Scorecard

Odisha Panthers 121/5 (19.5 overs)	v	Odisha Tigers 117/9 (20 overs)
Abhishek Yadav 50* (39) Shekhar Majhi 2/21 (4 overs)		Debasish Samantray 31 (35) Jayanta Behera 3/23 (4 overs)

Odisha Panthers won by 5 wickets Barabati Stadium, Cuttack Umpires: Arun Basa (IND), Bibhu Satapathy (IND) Player of the match: Abhishek Yadav (Odisha Panthers)

• Odisha Panthers won the toss and elected to bowl

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12 January 2021 19:45 (D/N) Scorecard

Odisha Lions 172/2 (20 overs)	v	Odisha Pumas 97/10 (18.2 overs)
Swastik Samal 110* (68) Tukuna Sahoo 1/33 (4 overs)		Sandeep Pattnaik 26 (25) Sibhasish Sahoo 4/26 (4 overs)

Odisha Lions won by 75 runs Barabati Stadium, Cuttack Umpires: Pritiranjan Bijaysingh (IND), Durgadatta Das (IND) Player of the match: Swastik Samal (Odisha Lions)

• Odisha Lions won the toss and elected to bat

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Final

13 January 2021 16:45 (D/N) Scorecard

Odisha Panthers 115/4 (19.1 overs)	v	Odisha Lions 113/9 (20 overs)
Abhishek Yadav 40* (42) Abhisek Giri 1/14 (3 overs)		Nauttam Bhanja 38 (35) Pradeep Pradhan 2/9 (4 overs)

Odisha Panthers won by 6 wickets Barabati Stadium, Cuttack Umpires: Arun Basa (IND), Durgadatta Das (IND) Player of the match: Subham Nayak (Odisha Panthers)

• Odisha Lions won the toss elected to bat

External links

Season home at CricketWorld

Series home at Fancode