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T20 Night Cricket Tournament AllStars team emerged and champion
Final Game of the Chicago T20 Cricket tournament played under the lights at the Camera Park Stadium Glendale Heights on Saturday night.
There were outstanding countless iconic moments in Chicago area cricket history One of the best Cricket competitions, 1st Chicago Open T20 Night Cricket Tournament 2021 concluded in Chicago Suburbs on Saturday, October 9th, 2021 with Hundreds of spectators gathered and saw the thrilling Final Game.
Many organizations play Cricket in Chicago, but Chicago Open T20 Night Cricket Tournament is one of the Best and most popular cricket tournaments in the Chicagoland area, organized by prominent Community Members Adeel Salam, Aijaz Baig, Sunny Khan & Waseem Khan. Chicago Open T20 Night Cricket Tournament is graced with talented cricketers.
The games were held in line with government regulations and COVID safety guidelines. Rendering to the organizers since Pandemic this year was particularly challenging Aijaz Baig said, all the games went very well, “But all of our priorities were to ensure the City and State government restrictions (were) in place to keep the community and players safe from COVID-19.”
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In this 20/20 cricket fourteen Teams participated and each team was represented by local players and some out-of-state players. The tournament followed the International Cricket Council League standards.
The tournament ran from the first week of August 2021 through the second week of October 2021. There was a one-minute silence observed for those who lost their lives due to Covid-19.
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The Best Chicago area 14 teams involving top players from the Chicagoland area played in this tournament, bringing multiple local communities together to cheer their Favorite players & teams.
All-stars team registered a thrilling 21 runs win to confirm their Trophy as Thunder Billas were Lost out in the Final Game of the Chicago T20 tournament played under the lights at the Camera Park Stadium Glendale Heights, Illinois on Saturday night.
Thunder Billas won the toss and took fielding first. The All Stars team put on a total of 142 runs. The Thunder Billas could not match the score though its batsmen played a long innings. They were all out for 121 runs in 18.4 overs.
On Final game night, All Stars Team set a 142-run target, Batsman Ankush Agarwal awarded Final MVP for scoring 38 runs and taking 3 wickets allowing only 10 runs in 3.4 overs. Manu Singh, Hamad Qureshi and Ankush Agarwal were top scorers.
During an interview with Adeel Salam and Aijaz Baig they said, “Throughout the past several months, Our Organizing team worked hard to develop and implement robust COVID protocols to enable players to safely play in a Chicago area of this size and scale. The Main goal is to organize this tournament in the best possible way and promote cricket to bring out the local talent.
The Chicago T-20 Tournament provided a great playing opportunity to youth cricketers, said Sunny Khan.
During the Award ceremony many awards were given to sponsor and supporters Including Runner up trophy and $1300 cash prize, Winning Trophy and $2500 cash Prize. money Check were Allstars team Captain Nishat received the winning Trophy and check
Sponsors for the T20 night tournament included American Cricket Conference, Barrington Crescent Cricket Club, Kotli Lions of Kashmir Premier League, Rising Stars Cricket Club, Whole cell Accessories, Crescent Financial Services, MI Travel, Mudassir Siddiqui Real Estate Broker, Dr. Naqi Haider, Sunil Shah and Many others.
