Indian Air Force [Officers] Team lifted the first SMILE-XANSA Cricket Trophy in New Delhi on January 21, 2007. Sixteen corporate teams have participated in the two-month long tournament which has been organized to raise support and resource for welfare of street children in Delhi. The event will be played at the national level from next year onward for the benefit of more underprivileged children across India.

Winner – Indian Air Force (Officers)
Total runs – 165 / 8 wickets [20 overs]


Runner Up – IBM Daksh
Total runs – 164/ 7 wickets [20 overs]

Result – IAF Officers win by 1 run


Man of the Match – Mayur Bora of IDM-Daksh who scored 63 runs and took 2 wickets for 24 runs.


Man of the Tournament – Sunil Pandita of HP team.

Venue – Air Force Sports Ground, Palam, New Delhi

Play for a Cause

Smile Foundation and Xansa has come forward with an Inter-Corporate Cricket Tournament called “SMILE-XANSA 20-20 Corporate Cricket Tournament 2006: Play for a Cause” in which 16 corporate teams participated for a noble cause – to support 2000 street children across the capital of India. The participating organizations include Xansa, Ericssion, Citi Financial, Deutsche Bank, Reebok, Canon, Bank of America, HP, Airtel, Opto Group, Verint, TCL, GE Money, Indian Air Force, IBM Daksh and Ginni Filaments.

The tournament was set off in December 2006 with the objective of helping out 2000 street children in Delhi through Education and Healthcare support. The tournament was inaugurated by Sanjeev Sharma, the former Test Player of Indian Cricket Team on 2nd of December, 2006 with the opening match between Xansa and IBM-Daksh.


The proceeds from the tournament are dedicated towards education and health care projects in the welfare of street children. On 21st of January 2007 the grand finale of the tournament was organized at Air Force Sports Complex, Palam, New Delhi and the final match was played between Indian Air Force [Officers] and IBM – Daksh.

Mr. Daman Dev Sood, representing XANSA says, “This is a great tournament and I congratulate the participants for being a part of the noble cause.”


Akash Chopra, Indian Cricketer who was the chief guest for the grand finale, says, “I would like to thank and congratulate Smile Foundation for organizing a tournament to support underprivileged children. I would like to support this cause in future too.”


Mr. Kirti Azad says, “I appreciate Smile for spreading this universal courage and bring people jointly to play for a cause.”


Adding to his views, Mr. Maninder Singh said, “I used to play cricket for my passion. I appreciate Smile’s effort to take this game as a medium to help those children who have only dreams in their eyes. I pay my best wishes to them and hope that very soon these children can able to change their dreams in reality,”

Smile Foundation has chosen this platform to support the needy and deprived children. “Our aim is to empower masses through education. In a city like Delhi Street Children are among the most deserving lot to get attention. They are generally involved in rag picking, begging, selling stuffs at traffic lights, petty labour etc. Most of them are vulnerable to child abuse, runaway children or children from poor parents. For them street is their home, their playground and a place to work from as early as sunrise to as late as midnight. Understanding the seriousness of the problem, we have come forward to support these children through education and health care,” said, Mr. Santanu Mishra, Smile Foundation.


The annual event will be played at the national level from next season.


Let us bring SMILE to the children who deserve it!


 
Captain of IBM- Daksh, Chandan Singh sharing his views on Match with the commentator Alok Saxena of Magna Publication
Captain of Indian Air Force (Officers) expressing his views on the Match with the commentator Alok Saxena of Magna Publication
IBM- Daksh Team along with their Runner up trophy presented by the Chief Guest Akash Chopra and other honorable guests
Indian Air Force (Officers) Team along with their Winner Trophy presented by the Chief Guest Akash Chopra alongwith the other honorable guests
IBM- Daksh and Indian Air Force (Officers) on the Cricket ground
Md. Aseem of IBM-Daksh was awarded Best Bowler
Sunil Pandita of HP was awarded Man of the Tournament by the Chief Guest, Akash Chopra
Mayur Bora of IBM- Daksh is being awarded Best Batsman and Man of the Match by K.K.Varma, Chief (Programme & Partnerships), Smile Foundation
Various corporates associated with the tournament

   

       


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Invented in England, other names commonly used for the latest form of abridged version of cricket match are Twenty Twenty, T20, T-20, 20-20, 20 20 and Twenty20. This form of cricket is yet another history after Australian media entrepreneur Kerry Packer promoted one day format (50 over or limited overs) at a time when test cricket was the popular format internationally.

Smile Foundation plans to organise regular corporate cricket tournaments under csr initiatives from various companies in various parts of India in future such as New Delhi NCR, Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore, Chennai, Kolkata etc.

Proceeds from such fund raising events will go directly to numerous children education and healthcare projects managed by Smile Foundation across the Indian states of Orissa, Bihar, Jharkhand, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Haryana, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Jammu & Kashmir, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand, Chhattisgarh, West Bengal, Goa, Kerala, Assam and Manipur.