Jharkhand News: Teams announced for 1st Eastern Zone 50 plus premier cricket league
SUBHASH MISHRA Advertisement Advertisement Ranchi April 9: Teams have been announced for 1st 50 plus Eastern Zone level T-20 Cricket Premier…
Organizers hold auction for players
SUBHASH MISHRA
Ranchi April 9: Teams have been announced for 1st 50 plus Eastern Zone level T-20 Cricket Premier League to be held at Jamshedpur from April 26 to 28.
Giving this information organizer of the team Avinash Kumar, former captain of the undivided Bihar Ranji team said that players from Patna, Dhanbad, Ranchi, Chaibasa, Asansol, Barbil (Odisha) and Tata Nagar are participating in it. Players from Andaman and Nicobar will be also playing.
This tournament is affiliated with the Veterans Indian Cricket Foundation (VCI).
The matches will be of 20 overs each side and it will be played with a red cricket ball at Keenan Stadium. No final match will be played. The winner of the tournament will be decided as per Net Run rate.
Four teams have been formed on the pattern of IPL Auction and players on a point basis were chosen by respective captains & vice captains of the team through the bidding process (on points basis).
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Four teams have been declared. They are-
Eastern Panthers
Captain Mahesh Jha, Prasanna Jha vice-captain (both Jamshedpur), Kirti Rawal Anwar Hussain, Abdul Waheed Alok Kumar, Ghanshyam Chaudhari, Ashish Bhattacharjee, Abu Ashraf, Subasis Das (Wicket keeper) and Satya Prakash
Eastern Leopards
Captain Vasudevan (Jamshedpur), Gulrez Akhtar Vice-captain (Patna). Biswesh Tiwary, Ajay Gautam, Manvendra Nath Dixit, Sumant Mendiratta (Wicket-keeper), Swapan Layak, Anuj Singh, Mukesh Kumar, Sandeep Kr Singh and Binod Prajapati
Eastern Lions
Captain K V Srinivasan (Jamshedpur), Shambhu Lal Puri vice-captain (Jamshedpur), Shyamal Pramanick (Wicket Keeper), R Sundaram, Virendra Singh, Purushottam Pandey, Sanjay Chandra, Jaswant Singh, Rashid, Binod Kumar and Birendra Narayan.
Eastern Tigers
Captain Purshottam Sahu (Jamshedpur), Sarfaraz Ahmad Vice-captain (Ranchi), Ritesh Sinha, Nixon Kumar (wicket-keeper), Debashish Chandra, Manas Chakraborty, G S R Murthy, Ramesh Kr Pandey, K Chandra Sekhar, Bhola Prasad and Subhash Singh..
K B Shukla, all India panel qualified referee (TT game) was present during the auction as an Auction Coordinator along with Ranjan Kumar of EZCL as an observer and Avinash Kumar as an organiser.
