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Place of Birth: Rourkela, Odisha, India
About Govinda Poddar
- Govinda Bhaktiranjan Poddar (born 9 September 1991) is an Indian cricketer.
- Poddar is a right-handed batsman who also bowls right-arm off break.
- He has played first-class and List A cricket for Odisha.
- He has scored three hundreds in the current season against Vidharba, Maharashtra and Karnataka.
- 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.
- Since then he has been a regular in the Odisha Ranji Trophy side.
- This man from Rourkela 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 and eventually lost to Gujarat.He was the leading run-scorer for Odisha in the 2018–19 Vijay Hazare Trophy, with 359 runs in six matches.
- Now he is married to his schoolmate and his long time lover Bandita Sahu, who is a law student from Rourkela.
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