{"id":240048,"date":"2024-05-08T00:17:45","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T18:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=240048"},"modified":"2024-05-08T00:17:45","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T18:47:45","slug":"otom-paron-memorial-cricket-tourney-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2024\/05\/08\/otom-paron-memorial-cricket-tourney-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"Otom Paron Memorial Cricket Tourney begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Singing Star defeat Friends of 90s by 6 wkts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Correspondent<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>RUKSIN, 7 May:<\/strong> Singing Star Club defeated Friends of 90s by six wickets in the opening match of the Otom Paron Memorial Etor Gidi Cricket Tournament-2024 at the Ngorlung secondary school playground near here in East Siang district on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Friends of 90s batted first and scored 150 runs in 20 overs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Singing Star Club chased down the target in 13 overs, losing four wickets.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ten teams from different villages of the district are participating in the tournament, the organisers informed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The final match will be played 13 May.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier, inaugurating the tournament, East Siang Economics &amp; Statistics Assistant Director Kasep Tayom said that Ngorlung village, in Ruksin circle, has a good track record in the field of sports. He advised the player to maintain discipline.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prof Enuk Libang advised the youths to take up sports seriously and make a career out of them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rombo LPS Headmaster Talom Pabi spoke on the importance of games and sports.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Otom Paron, in whose memory the tournament is being organised, was a sports enthusiast and played a vital role in promoting and popularising games and sports in the area, Tommy Paron, son of late Paron, said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Otom had come from Sumsing village in present-day Siang district and settled down in Ngorlung in 1968. He died in 1996.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sponsored by late Paron&#8217;s family members, the tournament is being conducted by the All Star Group of Ngorlung.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singing Star defeat Friends of 90s by 6 wkts Correspondent RUKSIN, 7 May: Singing Star Club defeated Friends of 90s by six wickets in the opening match of the Otom Paron Memorial Etor Gidi Cricket Tournament-2024 at the Ngorlung secondary school playground near here in East Siang district on Tuesday. Friends of 90s batted first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240052,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-240048","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}