Youth cricket festivities continue

Cricket festivities continue in Tri-Valley, California

16 teams with players from 14 different schools / after school cricket clubs participated in the 5th edition of Cricket for Cubs Inter-School tournament held over two weekends December 2nd and December 9th , 2017 in Pleasanton, San Ramon and Dublin cities in California with 200+players competing in elementary, middle and high school division playing 35 games. High school division was introduced in this edition of the tournament with participation from 3 cricket clubs from San Ramon Valley High School and Dublin Unified school district.

Below are the tournament participants, winners and runners up along with best players in each dvision:

Elementary Division:

Teams:

• Mohr Cricket Club
• Kolb Cricket Club
• John Green Cricket Club
• Amador Cricket Club
• Live Oak Cricket Club

Champions – Amador Cricket Club led by Ayush Batghare

Runners up – Mohr Cricket Club led by Saanvi Immadi

Best Bowler -Arush Chitgopkar , Live Oak Cricket Club

Best Batsman – Akhil Venkatesh, John Green Cricket Club

Best Fielder – Aditya Chandrasekhar, Live Oak Cricket Club

Most Valuable Player – Ayush Batghare, Amador Cricket Club

Middle School Division:

Teams:

• Fallon Middle School – 3 Teams
• Harvest Park Cricket Club
• Hart Cricket Club
• Iron Horse Cricket Club
• Gale Ranch Cricket Club
• Windmere Ranch Cricket Club

Champions – Fallon Middle School led by Saketh Ayinaparthy

Runners up – Windmere Ranch Cricket Club led by Rohan Posanipally

Best Bowler – Sanjay Adhikesaven, Hart Cricket Club

Best Batsman – Ajay Immadi, Harvest Park Cricket Club

Best Fielder – Saketh Ayinaparthy, Fallon Middle School

Most Valuable Player –Sahil Garg, Windmere Ranch Cricket Club

High School Division:

Participated Teams:

• Dublin High Cricket Club
• Cal High Cricket Club
• Dougherty Valley Cricket Club

Champions –Cal High Cricket Club led by Shamith Pasula

Runners up – Dougherty Valley Cricket Club lead by Karan Sidhu

Best Bowler – Kaustub Kanagalekar, Cal High Cricket Club

Best Batsman – Shamith Pasula, Cal High Cricket Club

Best Fielder – Parth Gupta, Dougherty Valley Cricket Club

Most Valuable Player –Rishab Jayaram, Dougherty Valley Cricket Club

Proud to see Cricket for Cubs youth board members putting themselves in driver seat running the 5th Edition of Cricket for Cubs Inter-school tournament from Planning to Execution including the closing ceremony. It is not an easy task considering this is the biggest and best edition in our journey with 14 schools teams / clubs, 35 games, 205 players in Elementary, Middle School and High School Edition.

When we started on this journey (Establishing a Non Profit Organization) 18 months back, one of the objective is to prepare tomorrow leaders through the medium of this wonderful sport, Cricket.We feel it is getting realized with 4 of the youth BODs, Ajay Immadi doing the MC for the closing ceremony, Shamith Pasula talking about Cricket for Cubs and it's vision, Anish Kolan talking about the achievements from infrastructure and other resources, Varun Yadevilli talking about the tournament.

Want to thank David Haubert, Mayor, City of Dublin, Bill Clarkson, Mayor, City of San Ramon, Sridhar Verose, San Ramon Parks and Community Services Commissionare, Sindu Sirharsha, USA Womens Cricket Team player, Joan Larsen, President, Pleasanton Unified School District Board, Steve Meher, Board Member, Pleasanton Unified School District and Ken Steve Mintz, Vice President, San Ramon Valley Unified School District Board for being there to present the trophies to the winners.

Any tournament at this magnitude is not possible without sponsors. Prashanti Lakamsani was there to present the trophies on behalf of our Grand Sporsor, Arkrit LLC, Bijju Nair, Chairman and President of Think Plam, Raghu Yelluru, COO, Smart ERP who are the gold sponsors for CFC handed over the trophies in various categories.

About Cricket for Cubs:

Established in 2016 to promote the youth cricket in schools and communities at no cost, successfully introduced cricket in 18 schools in Dublin, Pleasanton and San Ramon school districts in California with cricket established as part of P.E.curriculum in 3 middle schools.

Uniqueness of our program is, in each of the school we do year around program (32 weeks) with professional coaches training these kids in the respective schools weekly atleast one hour with Cricket for Cubs sponsoring the complete program year #1 , CFC trains the PE / Athletic staff, builds the curriculum based on the school grade (Elementary, Middle School and HIgh School) to establish cricket as part of P.E. curriculum in year#2 and in year#3 we work with school district and respective athletic league to establish cricket as an athletic program.

Cricket for Cubs is working with different cities and school districts to build the cricket infrastructure which is shared with respective community members at no cost. Cricket for Cubs completed its first infra project, two cricket batting cages at Emerald Glen Park, Dublin partnering with City of Dublin and working on finalizing the agreements with two other cities to construct the cricket pitches. Additional information can be found @ www.cricketforcubs.org.