Even though heavy rain and bad weather was forecasted, Billava Sangha Kuwait members feel blessed to have successfully organized 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 Mr. Raghu Poojary. Tournament was inaugurated with symbolic play of the game by the President Mr. 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 - Mr. Raja (Riggae Friends)
Man of the Series – Mr. Krishna S. Poojary (Tulunadu Cricketers, Abhasiya)
Best Bowler - Mr. 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 Mr. Sandesh Salian and Mrs. Kavya Prashanth
The scores were efficiently kept by Mr. Ashok and all the matches were fairly refereed by Mr. Jagadeesh and Mr. Sandesh Salian. The event was gracefully hosted by Mrs. Jayalaxmi Vishwas and capably photographed by Mr. Ashish Suvarna & Mr. Shakti Anchan.
The Sponsors for the Tournament were:
Mr. Vishwas Karkera
Mr. Shakthi Anchan
Mr. Ashish Suvarna
Mr. Ghanshyam Attavar
Mr. Chitrek Bangera
Mr. Raghu C. Poojary
Mr. Venu Gopal
Mr. Prabhakar Bola
Mr. Sagar Prabhu
Mr. Ravish Nayak
BSK Committee wishes to thank 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 & referees. An invitation was extended to all the BSK members to attend the AGM followed by “Billavas Got Talent” show on Friday 7 December 2018 at Indian Community School (Amman Branch), Salmiya from 4 pm onwards.