Press Release

Jharkhand Premier League (JPL) 2011

Jharkhand Premier League (JPL),a property of Jharkhand State Cricket Association (JSCA) and Elite Sports Management started with a concept to organise a Twenty -20 Cricket League under the Lines of IPL. It saw remote possibilities to start with but after a regular work on this concept, it was actualised and Implemented from 13^th to 19^th March, 2011. Saurabh Tiwary was announced the Brand Ambassador of the Tournament

A bid was floated for the five locations, Dhanbad Diamonds, Ranchi Rangers, Bokaro Bulls, Jamshedpur Jaanbaaz and Singhbhum Shers. At the Team Bidding on February, 7^th, 2011, the Location were allocated ad following to the Companies:

1.       Dhanbad Diamonds – Ayush Shreyesh Properties Pvt Limited

2.       Ranchi Rangers – VARS Associates

3.       Bokaro Bulls – Mongia Steel

4.       Jamshedpur Jaanbaaz – Frontline Group

5.       Singhbhum Shers – Bimaldeep Group

There was a Player Auction Conducted on 13^th February, 2011 where 100 players were Auctioned, each Location buying 20 players each. This was telecasted LIVE at Sahara Samay for 4 hours and 47 minutes. The Players were split into 4 Pools (description as below)

1.       Pool A – India , India ‘A’ and India Under -19

2.       Pool B – Ranji Trophy Days and One Days

3.       Pool C – Under -19 and Under-22

4.       Pool D – District Performers or Franchisee Representative Players

Three Teams we renamed as Mongia Bokaro Bulls, Frontline Jamshedpur Jaanbaaz and Bimaldeep Singhbhum Shers.

The Tournament was Telecasted LIVE at TEN Cricket bringing enough weight to the state League and that too, the state players performing and being shown Globally. Hon’ble chief Minister, Mr Arjun Munda officially Inaugurated the JPL and met the players. Stars Like, Suniel Shetty, Bhojpuri Superstar Manoj Tiwary and TV fame Sambhavana Seth came up on different days to give potential weight to JPL.

After the League Matches, Saurabh Tiwary led Mongia Bokaro Bulls could not qualify for the Semi Finals and all other four teams did. Semi Final ONE was played between Ranchi Rangers and Bimaldeep Singhbhum Shers and the Semi Final TWO was played between Frontline Jamshedpur Jaanbaaz and Dhanbad Diamonds. Bimaldeep Singhbhum Shers and Frontline Jamshedpur Jaanbaaz won the semi finals and reached the Grand Finale which was played on 19^th March at 5.30 pm.

Brief of Finals:

Padmabhushan Shri Jamshed J Irani came as Chief Guest on the Closing of the Event. Singhbhum Shers chose to bat first and scored a modest total of 165 runs in stipulated 20 overs with Rameez Nemat scoring a flamboyant 79 with 8 boundaries and 2 sixes, supporting him Shahbaz Nadeem scored a solid 42 runs with 7 fours and built up a partnership of 113 runs for the 4^th wicket.

On the other hand, Frontline Jamshedpur Jaanbaaz looked a little stable in middle when Ajit Dwivedi middle the ball with his Individual 41 but other players bent down to the bowling of Sujeet Yadav (3/32) and Shahbaz Nadeem (3/20) and thus Bimaldeep Singhbhum Shers lifted the Inaugural JPL by beating Frontline Jamdhespur Jaanbaaz by 27 runs.

Shahbaz Nadeem was declared Man of the Match.

The matches were played at the International Cricket Stadium, Dhurwa in Ranchi under Flood Light. All predictions go high for the next year JPL and would also be an Important feeder to the JPL.

Ranchi got some Interesting and unique opportunity to witness such a high standard tournament.

Thanks

Nishant Dayal

Elite Sports Management

Nishant@elitesports.in

9711809999

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