The 17th Edition of All India J.P. Atray Memorial Cricket Tournament will be held from 15th to 24th September,2010 at Sector 16 Cricket Stadium, Chandigarh, Tau Devi Lal Cricket Stadium Sector -3 Panchkula, DAV School Sector 8 Chandigarh, LIC Cricket Academy GMHS Sector 26 Chandigarh, St.John School Sector 26 Chandigarh and Dhruv Pandove Cricket Stadium Patiala. The tournament will be played under the auspices of Punjab Cricket Association and is recognized by the BCCI. It is the curtain raiser before the start of the domestic season. This time around it will be followed by the Australian Team’s tour of India and will give a great chance to fringe players to stake their claim for the National Team.
According to Mr. Sushil Kapoor, Organising Secretary of the Tournament 16 leading teams from all over the country are taking part in the tournament, which will be played on league cum knock out basis. All the matches will be of 50 overs each innings. PCA Panel Umpires and Scorers will be detailed for the matches. S.G. Test Cricket balls will be used. The winners will get a cash prize of Rs. 1.75 lacs alongwith winners trophy, Runners up will get a cash prize of Rs.70,000/- with runners up trophy. The two losing semifinalists will get a cash prize of Rs.20,000/- each. There will be awards for each Man of the Match. Best Batsman, Best Bowler and Player of the Tournament will be awarded during the finals of the tournament. The tournament will be played under the ICC Rules of One Day Cricket.
The teams have been divided in four pools and top team from each pool will qualify for the Semi finals. Reliance – I winners of last year along with BSNL, BPCL & PCC are in Pool-A, Last years Runners Up Indian Oil Corporation, All India FCI, Indian Railway and India Cements are placed in Pool – B, All India Electricity Board, Indian Income Tax, Bishnoi Cricket Club and ONGC Delhi are in Pool-C while Pool D consists of PCA Colts, DY Patil Academy Mumbai, LIC Cricket Club Chandigarh and Air India Delhi. This year India Cement Chennai, Bishnoi Cricket Club and DY Patil Academy Mumbai are the new entrants.
M/s Pearls Infrastructure Projects Limited are the main sponsor of the tournament and M/s Preet Land Promotors and Developers, Mount Shivalik, India Bulls and Coca Cola are the Co-sponsors of the tournament. This year four matches including a semi-final have been slated for Dhruv Pandove Cricket Stadium, Patiala because of the Australian Team’s arrival in Chandigarh from 20th September,2010.
The inaugural ceremony of the tournament will be held at Cricket Stadium, Sector 16 on 15th September,2010 with a match between All India Electricity Board and Indian Income Tax Pune. Mr. KJS Toor, Director Pearls Infrastructure Projects Limited will inaugurate the tournament. All matches will start at 9.15 a.m. The final of the tournament will be held at Tau Devilal Stadium, Sector 3, Panchkula on 24th September,2010 and this time around it will be a day affair.
The tournament will have lot of keen and contested matches and many participating teams like Indian Oil Corporation, India Cements, BPCL, Indian Income Tax , All India Electricity Board, Air India will be renewing their rivalry which was witnessed in the just concluded BCCI Corporate Cup for Raj Singh Dungarpur Trophy. As a matter of fact the winners of Corporate Indian Oil and Runners up India Cement are placed in the same pool i.e. Pool-B. The tournament will have many renowned players various outfits. The list includes Ajay Jadeja, Akash Chopra, Manoj Tiwari, Ashok Dinda, Wriddiman Saha, Abhishek Junjunwala, Amol Majumdar, Pankaj Dharmani, Reetinder Sodhi, Munaf Patel, Gautam Gambhir, Parthiv Patel, Mohd.Kaif, Ravinder Jadeja, Yusuf Pathan, Wasim Jaffar, Nilesh Kulkarani, and few upcoming young players from Punjab.
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RELIANCE lifted the glittering Trophy in the Final of the 2012 Tournament at the PCA Stadium thanks to sparkling performances from Parthiv Patel and Shikhar Dhawan
Congratulations, and thanks for giving me some time in spite of having so many important people in attendance. It really is great what you're doing here. Have you written an outline history of the evolution of the JP Atray Memorial Tournament from its beginnings anywhere on the net? How many and which teams participated in the first ever edition? Phil J Walton
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