Govinda Bhaktiranjan Poddar (born 9 September 1991) is an Indian

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er. Poddar is a right-handed batsman who also bowls right-arm

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. He has played first-class and

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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 2016–17 Vijay Hazare Trophy was the 15th season of the Vijay Hazare Trophy, a List A cricket tournament in India. It was contested by the 28 domestic cricket teams of India. Tamil Nadu won the tournament, beating Bengal by 37 runs in the final. ...

, 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.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Poddar, Govinda 1991 births Living people Indian cricketers Odisha cricketers East Zone cricketers People from Rourkela Cricketers from Odisha