All India Chandu Borde T20 Cricket Cup 2016 – 5th Season
Chandu Borde T20 Cricket Cup – an invitational cricket tournament which is quite popular all over india is currently in its 5th year. Right from its first year it is organized by Mr. Shashi Kate an avid cricket lover from Pune who also runs an NGO by the name of Shashi Kate Sports & Social Service Association.
“We organize this tournament under the name of Mr. Chandu Borde, an ex-Indian test player who hails from our Pune city and organizing this tournament is a way of giving back to the society and the game of cricket” , said Mr. Kate while speaking to cricketgraph.com. “Till date we have not had any sponsors for this tournament. Though we are approached by many sponsors every year, Ideally I would like to see some big corporate single handedly owning up or taking up the complete sponsorships instead of multiple sponsors”
This tournament usually receives a lot of inquiries from teams all over India , from as far as Jammu & Kashmir to Bangalore. Tournament participation is usually decided by the management depending on the quality of players mainly from good corporate teams to maintain the discipline and competitiveness of the tournament.
ABOUT THE TOURNAMENT
League cum knockout tournament only on invitation basis. 16 Teams play T20 matches on round robin basis.
Entry Fee is Rs.30,000/-
PRIZE MONEY IS Rs.6,00,000/-
Runners Up – Rs.3,00,000/-
Ma n of the Series – Rs.50,000/- | Best Bowler – Rs.25,000/- | Best Batsman – Rs.25,000/-
Venue – Dilip Vengeskar Cricket Academy Ground, Pune
Matches played on weekdays and weekends.
Winners of the tournament so far
Tournament winners from 1st Edition
1ST Edition – Bharat Petroleum Mumbai
2nd Edition & 3rd Season – Sahara Mumbai
4th Season – Air India Mumbai
5th Season – Finals awaited
BIG players played till date…
Pravin Tambe (Rajasthan Royals), Paul valthati (kings 11 punjab), Siddarth Trivedi (Rajsthan Royals) , Suryakumar Yadav (kolkata night riders) , Kedar Jadhav ( India) , Avishkar Salavi (ex. India player), Bharat Chipali ( Sunrises Haidrabad) , Yogesh Takwale (Mumbai indians/RCB), Sadik kirmani (son of Sayyad kirmani) , Abbas Ali (Grandson of Mushtaq ali) , Raghvendra kambali (Vinod kamblis brother), Rajesh Pawar ( ex. India A player) , Ravikant shukla ( ex India under 19 Captain) , Rohan Raje (Mumbai indians), Kaustub Pawar ( Mumbai Ranji player) and Amit Dani
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