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
Ginni Filaments
Limited
Each team received 15 full sleeves Cricket
Sweaters of
Memento Sponsored by
Event Managed by
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.
