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| Hat trick by Jolly Rovers |
| Chemplast team wins TN cricket league 3rd time
in a row |
| Jolly Rovers Cricket Club, the pride of
the Sanmar Group for well over three decades, gave yet another
fillip to the Group’s sports promotion activities by annexing
the Palayampatti Shield for the senior division league championship
of the Tamil Nadu Cricket Association for the third straight
year the league was completed. (The league was left unfinished
last season, when too, Jolly Rovers was in a commanding position). |
| To win the championship, Jolly Rovers had
to overcome stiff opposition in the semifinal and final rounds
of a mini-knockout introduced in the league a couple of years
ago, beating Indian Overseas Bank and Vijay CC convincingly
in successive matches. |
| In the final round, fine batting by lefthanded
Indian batsman Hemang Badani, well supported by Sujith Somasundar
and Ajay Kudua, and good bowling by India pace bowler L Balaji,
enabled Rovers to turn around a match which at one stage looked
like going the opponents, Vijay CC’s way. In the end, the
Chemplast sponsored team prevailed comfortably over its India
Cements supported rival, by a margin of 74 runs. For the losers,
young left hander Sunil Viswanathan made a fighting 119. |
| S Badrinath, with 762 runs, was Jolly Rovers’
leading rungetter for the season, while skipper D Vasu (41
wickets) and R Ramkumar (39 wickets) were consistent with
their left arm spin bowling. |
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The Jolly Rovers team which won the MAC-TNCA
First Division championship, 2002-03. Standing (from left):
P. Padmanabhan (Trainer), C. Ganapathy, G. Jayakumar (Asst.
Coach), R.S. Murali, Vikram Kumar, D. Tamil Kumaran, J. Hariesh,
S. Badrinath, L. Balaji, V. Shankar, R. Ramkumar, K. Sivakumar,
A.G. Srinivas, H. Vatekar, Rahul and S. Arun (Scorer). Sitting
(from left): Ajay Kudua, Hemang Badani, S. Sujith, Vijay Sankar
(Director, Chemplast Sanmar), Bharath Reddy (Manager), D.
Vasu (Captain), Abdul Jabbar (Coach) and K. Ram Mohan (Asst.
Manager). |
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