Jamshedpur to host over 40s East Zone Masters T20 Cricket tournament

Jamshedpur, May 4: Jamshedpur Veteran Sports Club under the auspices of Veterans Cricket India will be hosting East Zone Masters T20 Cricket Tournament for players of 40 plus age group at Keenan Stadium in Jamshedpur from 6 to 8 May.

Six teams divided into two groups will be participating in Over 40s East Zone Masters T20 Cricket Tournament.

The tournament will be held under banner of the Veteran Cricket India (VCI) and with the support of Sports Department of Tata Steel, Tata Steel Foundation, JAMIPOL and Jharkhand State Cricket Association.

“The aim behind organising the tournament is to bring back cricketers to the playing field which can help them keep fit and also interact with old friends,” said former cricketer and organiser Avinash Kumar.

He informed that ex Ranji players of Bihar, Jharkhand and Bengal including Subhash Chatterjee, Moinak Sen Gupta, Sanjiv Gupta and Santosh Tiwari, Avinash Kumar along with ex districts and universities players will be participating.

Six participating teams include- Jamshedpur Veterans, Dhanbad Diamonds, Giridih Dynamite, PTMPL Asansol, Chaibasa Challengers and Kalinga Warriors Odisha.

Avinash Kumar further said that it will be 20 overs a side tournament and matches will be played with pink balls. One bowler is allowed to bowl maximum of 4 overs. The matches will be officiated by qualified umpires of JSCA and two matches will be played each day from 7.00 am and 10.00 am. 40 years and above retired players who have represented State, District, University are eligible to participate.

Six teams have also announced their squad for the upcoming tournament.

PTMPL, Asansol Team

Moloy Sarkhel 

Shantanu Choudhury

Paritos Kr.Roy

Kundan Pandit 

Dinesh Yadav 

Subhasis Sarkar 

Siddrath Gupta

Krisnendu Dey

Samir Maji

Jitendra Kumar 

Malaya Kumar Jena 

Dipankar Bhatterjee 

Sudhir Kumar 

Germeet Singh 

Biswajit Gupto 

Rajesh Patel

Dhanbad Diamonds Team

1.Ashit kumar sahay (C)

2.Pravir krishna   (WK)

3.Kanchan singh

4.Santosh singh

5.Subrato lala

6.Somik banerjee

7.Dharmendra sharma (VC)

8.Manmohan sharma

9.Sanjay sharma

10.Basant heliwal

11.Umesh srivastava

12.Umesh yadav

13.Sanjay yadav 

14.Dipesh yagnik Coach 

15.Abhijit Ghosh – Mentor

16.Kunjan Sharan  Ex-Ranji Trophy Player

17.Jai Prakash ray 

18.Md.Mukthar Hussain 

19.Santanu choudhary- Manager

20. Dharmendra Singh

Chaibasa Challengers

1)NIXON KUMAR (C)

2)VISHWANATH KARMAKAR

3)SANTOSH HANSDA

4)KIRTI KUMAR RAWAL

5)PARMARTH SUMAN (VC)

6)MANOJ MANIKRAO HUMANE

7)VIJAY ANAND MUKHI

8)MUNISH SUDAN

9)PUROSOTTAM N.PANDEY

10)BINOD PRAJAPATI

11)DHARMENDAR 

12)DWARIKA DASH

13)SK.FARID

14)MAUSAM KUMAR

15)PRAMOD

16)RANJAY SINGH

17)PADMAKAR MISHRA

18) M S TANTUBAI (COACH)

Kalinga warriors, Odisha team

1. Rakesh Bhardawaj – (C)
2. Bidyut Mahalik
3. Raja Rao
4. Arindam Ghosh
5. Umesh Chandra Sahoo
6. Pratap Chandra Samal
7. Anurag Sharma
8. Vijay Soni
9. Anshul Srivastava
10. Dharmendra Kumar Singh
11. Hemnat Kr. Maharana
12. Varun Mishra

Jamshedpur Veterans

1. Avinash Kumar – C
2. Subhash Chatterjee – VC
3. Moinak Sen Gupta
4. Sanjiv Gupta
5. K V Srinivasan
6. Nitin Vijay
7. Anuj Singh
8. Prashant
9. Purshottam sahu
10. Mahesh Kr Jha
11. Ravi Ranjan
12. Sumant Mendiratta
13. Soubhagya Bhuyan
14. Vasudevan
15. Ritesh Kumar
16. Shyamal Pramanick
17. Kamal Kumar Singh
18. Shambhu Lal Puri

Giridih Dynamite

1. Rajesh Sinha
2. Santosh Tiwary – C
3. Alok Ranjan
4. Ashish Lakra
5. Somnath Banerjee
6. Ramesh Yadav
7. Imran Khan
8. Anjay Prasad
9. Bablu
10. Amit Ranjan
11. Umesh Rawat
12. Joy Majumdar
13. Ranjit Yadav
14. Annu Khan