Annual Cricket Fiesta

Date: April 20, 2011
Place: Ideal Indian School

The Doha Chapter conducted its 15th Annual Cricket Fiesta at the new Ideal Indian School ground. Four teams comprising members of the chapter viz., Centerpoint, HDFC, Deloitte & Touché and Ernst & Young took part in this event. HDFC and Deloitte & Touché made it to the finals defeating other teams in the preliminary round. In the thrilling final match, the HDFC team chose to bat after winning the toss and managed to score 134 runs from 20 overs. Runner up Deloitte & Touché lost by 9 runs scoring 125 runs in 20 overs.

Pankaj Singhvi was named the man of the match and Parvez Siddiqui was named man of the tournament. Parvez Siddiqui and Narayanan were Man of match for preliminary rounds. Other leading performers were C. Ramesh, Abdul Salaam, Amit Khanna, Jaishankar, Ravishankar, Sheji and Krishnakumar. The event was witnessed by more than 200 members and their family kept lively throughout the evening with good cricket, a live Dosa counter and dinner. A raffle draw was also conducted at the end with attractive prizes. The principal sponsors of this event were Centrepoint, HDFC Home Loans, LG Video Home, Deloitte & Touché, Qatar Duty Free, Ernst & Young, Blue Salon, Doha Liwa, Gem Advertising and media partner Qatar Tribune.

Doha Chapter Chairman Girish Jain expressed his gratitude to the event sponsors for their kind support and congratulated the event organizing committee and the Chapter Excom for the resounding success of the event. Chapter Vice Chairman Venkat Ramamurthy proposed the vote of thanks.