Media Release
Kuwait City, Mar 30: Billava Sangha Kuwait (BSK) successfully organized their eigth Season of Cricket Tournament 'Billava Trophy' on Friday March, 25 at Fahaheel ground.
The daylong sporting event commenced at 7:00 am with inaugural ceremony by the Advisors Raghu C Poojary and Chitrek Bangera and the ex Advisor Manoj Kumar. The MC of the event Mahesh Polali and the general secretary Anish Kotian welcomed the gathering. President Sushma Manoj in her welcome speech conveyed her best wishes to the participating teams.
The following eight teams participated in this tournament:
Abbasiya Friends
Tulunadu Cricketers Abbasiya
Udupi Friends
Khaitan Cricketers
Baidashree Cricketers
Billava Reggai Friends B
Billava Reggai Friends A
Friends Tuluver Group Kuwait
After intense competitions in four rounds of league matches followed by two semifinals, Tulunadu Cricketers Abhasiya and Baidashree Cricketers faced-off in the finals.
Eventually Tulunadu Cricketers Abbasiya emerged as the winners and Baidashree Cricketers as runners up.
Sachin Kumar of Tulunadu Cricketers Abbasiya was adjudged as 'Man of the Series'.
Following sportsmen won “Man of the Match” awards:
1st Match - Naveen - Tulunadu Cricketers Abbasiya
2nd Match - Ajay – Baidashree Cricketers
3rd Match - Vijay – Udupi Friends
4th Match - Pradeep S Poojary – Friends Tuluver Group Kuwait
Semi Final 1 - Vijay – Udupi Friends
Semi Final 2 - Sunil - Baidashree Cricketers
Final Match - Sharath - Baidashree Cricketers
All the teams exhibited great sportsman during the tournament and thoroughly entertained the spectators with fierce competitions.
Chief guests of the event Sunil Karkera and Hariprasad presented the Trophies and Medals to the winning teams and the players.
The scores were efficiently kept by Yashpal Poojary and Amarnath Suvarna. The matches were fairly refereed by Shivaraj Gowda Sirsi, Santhosh Kunder and Tony D’souza.
The best moments of the action-packed event were captured by Chitrek Bangera and Ghanshyam Attavar.
The event was sponsored by BSK Committee Members Raghu C Poojary, Chitrek Bangera, Ghanshyam Attavar, Govinda Belchada, Sukumar Karkera, Sandesh Amin, Prabhakar Bola and Friends Tuluver Group Kuwait (FTGK).
BSK Committee honored the sponsors, umpires and the scorers. President Sushma Manoj congratulated the winners and thanked all the teams for their participation. She also thanked the sports secretary Sandesh Amin and his team for organizing the tournament flawlessly and all the BSK members for their support in making the event successful & memorable.
The event concluded at 04:00 pm with the Vote of thanks by general secretary Anish Kotian.
It was a welcome back event for Billava Sangha Kuwait after a break of two years due to Covid-19 Pandemic and the success of this event boosted their hope to conduct rest of the events in this year with same passion and vigor.