Saturday, 4 November 2017

Shariq Saroori inaugurates final match of Malanoo Premier League






Huge gathering attends final ceremony

KAHARA, NOVEMBER 04: - Senior Youth Congress leader from Inderwal, Shariq Ahmed Saroori inaugurated the final match of Malanoo Premier League, the Cricket Tournament which was played between Batyas XI and Malanoo XI teams amidst huge gathering of participating teams, spectators and local populace at Malanoo, here.

The Tournament is innovative initiative by the Malanoo Kahara cricket management to bring Kahara in focus and to provide the local youth a massive platform to showcase their talent.

Shariq Saroori was accompanied by Block Congress Committee President Kahara, Chowdhary Farooq Ahmed, Master Bashir Ahmed Sirwal, Mohd Iqbal Malik, Amir Saroori, Ikhlaq Ahmed, Jaffar Hussain, Zulfikar Ali Wani, Master Tehzeem, Mangta Parray, Khair Din Magray, and a galaxy of Congress and Youth Congress leaders during the final ceremony They interacted with the players of the teams played in the final.

In all, 40 teams of 25 Panchayats of Inderwal Assembly Constituency participated in this cricket tournament.

In the final match of the Tournament was reduced to 16 over’s due to bad weather earlier. Batyas XI thrashed Malanoo XI after Batyaz XI who had set target of 147 runs. Chasing the target Malanoo XI could manage only 127. For Batyaz XI, Ahmer Sehzad top scored with 47 runs off 31 balls with 4 fours and 3 sixes, Shakir Hussain was the pick of the bowlers who bagged 3 important wickets for 30 runs in his 4 over’s, while Mushtaq & Firdous took 2 wickets each. The match was officiated by Bashir Ahmed and Irfan Ahmed. The proceedings of the programme were conducted by Jaffar Hussain.

Speaking on the occasion, Shariq Saroori said losing or winning of a game is immaterial but participating as worthy sports persons, performing with best capacity and maintaining quality of conduct while playing is counted a lot at the end of the day. He appreciated efforts of organizers in promoting grassroots cricket. He said that cricket is a passion amongst the J&K, be it children, youth or the elderly and there is a need to promote this sports in rural areas as well so the youths of this area could prove their talent.

He said that youth of the State despite having lot of interest in sports and allied activities and valour and zest for doing better, hardly get much opportunity to showcase their talent and skill, because people around them are least bothered to organise quality tournaments to provide them platform to hone their skill. He said probably that is one of the reasons as to why our State is still lagging behind in the sports sphere at the National scene, adding that absence of State cricketers in Indian Premier League (IPL) portraits picture of the opportunities and the avenues being provided to the State cricketers at the local level. Saroori further said that the mega sporting events like Premier leagues will go a long way in promoting sports culture in the State and helping in producing national stuff.

Saroori also assured people of Kahara that with the help of MLA Inderwal Ghulam Mohammad Saroori within a year a cricket stadium will be build in Malanoo Kahara area but for that local people have to provide the land and distributed Rs 10, 000 to the winning team and Rs 7,000 to the runner up team.

Sharik Saroori, Bashir Ahmed Sirwal, Mohd Iqbal Malik, Farooq Ahmed, Jaffer Hussain, Mangta Parray, Khair Din also distributed trophies to Man of the Series, Man of the match, Highest scorers and wicket taker, medals to the players, for their brilliant performance in the tournament.

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