Media Release
Kuwait, Nov 29: Even though heavy rain and bad weather was forecasted, Billava Sangha Kuwait members feel blessed to have successfully organised the Cricket Tournament 2018- Season 6, held on 23rd November 2018 at the Abbasiya cricket ground from 9:00 a.m. onwards along with fun filled games and spot prize questions.
The event commenced with a prayer and muhurtham of breaking coconut by the president Raghu Poojary. The tournament was inaugurated with symbolic play of the game by the president Raghu Poojary and vice president Krishna S Poojary. BSK applauds its sports committee and the ground marking team who patiently waited at the ground since early morning for the rains to stop so as to make preparations for the tournament.
All the teams participated in the cricket tournament played the game with great sportsman spirit and entertained the spectators all through the games.
The winners of the tournament were:
Riggae Friends – Winners
Tulunadu Cricketers, Abhasiya - Runners up
Prizes were given for the outstanding performers as:
Man of the Match - Raja (Riggae Friends)
Man of the Series – Krishna S Poojary (Tulunadu Cricketers, Abhasiya)
Best Bowler - Dinesh Bhatkal (Tulunadu Cricketers, Abhasiya)
The six teams that participated were:
1. Riggae Friends
2. Billava Brothers
3. Abbasiya Billava Cricketers
4. Baidashree Cricketers - A
5. Baidashree Cricketers – B
6. Tulunadu Cricketers Abhasiya
Gathered BSK ladies and kids played the fun filled game ‘Lucky Court’ in which the below are the winners from each category.
Kids – 1st Place Tanush Poojary
2nd Place Thanushree Harish
Ladies – 1st Place Jayalaxmi Vishwas
2nd Place Mamatha Harish
In spot questions under open to all categories, prizes were won by Sandesh Salian and Kavya Prashanth.
The scores were efficiently kept by Ashok and all the matches were fairly refereed by Jagadeesh and Sandesh Salian. The event was gracefully hosted by Jayalaxmi Vishwas and capably photographed by Ashish Suvarna and Shakti Anchan.
The sponsors for the tournament were:
Vishwas Karkera
Shakthi Anchan
Ashish Suvarna
Ghanshyam Attavar
Chitrek Bangera
Raghu C. Poojary
Venu Gopal
Prabhakar Bola
Sagar Prabhu
Ravish Nayak
BSK committee thanked all the generous sponsors and support of BSK members for successfulness of yet another memorable event.
The event concluded with the prize distribution ceremony and honoring sponsors, scorer and referees. An invitation was extended to all the BSK members to attend the AGM followed by ‘Billavas Got Talent’ show on December 7 at Indian Community School (Amman Branch), Salmiya from 4 pm onwards.