The Friendship Cup

NEWSFLASH - NEWSFLASH - NEWSFLASH - NEWSFLASH - NEWSFLASH

To All TFC Members, TFC Board & Council Members

On behalf of Lakeland Strikers and KACF we would like to send our heart felt thanks to everyone at TFC. We thank you for giving us this opportunity to come down and play in the TFC tournament. It was a very enjoyable and a valuable learning experience for us. We hope that we can continue this relationship into future games and tournaments. We also wish you continued success for the future of TFC, and hope it becomes bigger and better in the coming years. Special thanks to Mr Gulati and Mrs Singh for making us feel welcome as it was our first time playing in this format. All in all it was wonderful time for all us.

Thank You,

Philan M

Lakeland Strikers

(KACF)

CONGRATULATIONS SFTS - "SEAMERS"..........THE WINNERS OF "THE FRIENDSHIP CUP" ! see pix...

SCOF "Pirates" - runners-up for second year in a row....

KACF "strikers" - 3rd place.BAPS "lions" were finalists but could not play due to a religious conflict on this Sunday that was booked long ago by TFC.Next year TFC will try have the finals on a Saturday to accommodate them.

The Friendship Cup, would sincerely like to thank all the Teams, members, their families, friends and guests. Also, our heartfelt thanks to our many fans who helped make this tournament so successful and enjoyable. Our six cricket teams played hard for the ultimate victory and coveted spoils - 'The Friendship Cup'.

As always, it was our sponsors who helped us host an event of this magnitude. Kingfisher, our Gold sponsor - thank you Viveka ! Also our other sponsors - the TEAMS - South Florida Tamil Sangan, SFTS "seamers", BAPS "lions", Samunder Club of Florida, SCOF "pirates", Kerala Association of Central Florida, KACF "Lakeland strickers", The Sindhi Association of Florida, SAF "warriors", The Punjabi Association of South Florida, PASF "tigers". Cricket Council USA, Indo-US, Citizenshipclinic, Synergy Florida Insoles, Sanjay Paharia, The Goan Association, The Maharashtra Association, BITUSA, Nick Vora, Raj Amarnani, Rohit Puri, Little India, Indo American Store, Misti Bell, our friend AP, Avtar Singh - Busy Bee's, Govinda Rangaswamy, Finance & Technology Consultants, Salma's Jewellery, Joji Singh, Ravenscroft Shipmanagement, Manny Morin Insurance, Bedessee Sports, Citibank, New Asiana Foods, All State, Miami Mumbai, KRAA Security, Incredible India, MAQ - Cricket Council USA, Moore & Associates, Anita Amin - NIPA, Arti Agnelo, Ivor Coutinho - the "pirate", FAU - Nirvana and the Titans & Anita & all the participants for the awesome halftime show. Our gorgeous, energetic Emcee - Preet Sahi - our Desi Kurhi (Clive thought she was a Bollywood film star!), who added just the right masala when and where needed, our official still photographer Bharat who gave from his heart, Photographer Rahman, ACE DJ for the music and dhol, Soye from Madras cafe who made sure he did not go home with a morsel of food, Channa Photography for the video production, Chand Singh of CBRP for his undying support, advise and help and the City of Lauderhill for providing the facility that allows us to play a sport so close to all our hearts. Our fund raisers - Amita & Shamsher Singh, Neville Dias, Vashi Khemlani, Vinod & Manmeet Gulati, Mukesh Kumar & Vivek Swaroop. Lastly our flyer designer Amit Suri of "Seekred" and our website guru Chetan Amin. A big thanks to all who bought the raffle tickets to support our efforts. If we forgot anyone - apologies in advance...

Our very special thanks to the great legend of cricket Mr. Clive LLoyd, who was the Captain of the West Indies, and a winner of two World Cups. We were honoured and grateful by his presence. Thank you Clive !

AND...............one more supreme 'Thank You, Lord' for keeping the rains away !

Once again Congratulations to the "seamers", the "pirates", the "strikers" and thank you to the other teams "warriors", "lions" & "tigers" ! Until next year..........PRACTICE !

Cheers,

"thefriendshipcup"

"PHOTOS BY H.RAHMAN"

A few Glimpse's from Sunday - the toss at the finals with West Indies Cricketing Legend "Clive Lloyd" ..............sponsors kindly watch score board.

Many thanks to all our sponsors, friends, guests, supporters, volunteers, the staff at the CBRP, umpires, commentators, scorers, the score-board man, Captains and Teams and all members of the "thefriendshipcup".

TFC is proud to announce that $ 500/- was donated to the Haiti Relief Fund and handed over to Commissioner Holness at the awards ceremony. Thank you for and much appreciate all your support that made this happen.

A very special thanks to Amita Singh & her hubby Shamsher Singh .........for everything and giving us all an opportunity to enjoy the company of a legend of our sport Mr. Clive Lloyd. Thanks Clive !

cheers,

vinod gulati

thefriendshipcup

Vinod:

Well done. It was a superb event. Kudos to all organizers and players

regards

Nitin

President Maharashtra Association

TFC 2010 FINALS ON 28TH MAR.2010 - UNAVAILABILITY OF BAPS LIONS

Dear Rajat Bhai & fellow BAPS Team Members:

WE at the TFC will most certainly miss you and so will all our guests !

It is unfortunate that we - TFC had booked the date of the finals a long time ago and it is further unfortunate that the date now clashes with your Annual Shri Swaminarayan Jayanti and Shri Ram Navmi Celebrations scheduled for the very same day as the TFC 2010 finals.

Yes we will endeavour in future to have the schedule such that all matches and the finals do fall on a Saturday. Do check your BAPS calender for 2011 and advise - which would be the best Saturday for our TFC finals............do give us an option of two dates. We would like start planning the 2011 dates as soon as possible - as these dates are very difficult to come by.

Adequate coverage will be given on our website and the days program - regarding this matter. We will ask all our members to visit your religious gatherings - the BAPS Ravi Sabha, held every Sunday at your BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Temple at Boynton Beach. If you have anything specific you would like to place on our "thefriendshipcup" website regards your organisation do kindly send it in.

Are you sure you do not want to or cannot play in the morning of the 28th ? It would not be a final.......but............your presence would be great !

All the very best wishes for your Annual Shri Swaminarayan Jayanti and Shri Ram Navmi Celebrations from all of us here at TFC.

Jai Swaminarayan,

Vinod Gulati

President, "thefriendshipcup"

on behalf of the TFC Board & TFC CC.

From: Rajat Verma

To: Vinod Gulati

Subject: TFC 2010 FINALS ON 28TH MAR.2010 - UNAVAILABILITY OF BAPS LIONS

Tuesday, 16th March 2010

The Executive Board,
The Friendship Cup,
Florida, USA.

SUB: NON-AVAILABILITY OF BAPS LIONS ON 28TH MARCH
REF: TFC 2010 FINALS ON SUNDAY, 28TH MARCH ' 2010

Respected TFC Board Members,

With reference to the captioned subject, please refer our ongoing discussions for the past few days regarding the finals on Sunday. As we had mentioned at the very beginning, while registering our team, we will not be able to play any games on Sunday, 28th March 2010 due to certain programmes pre-scheduled on that specific day at our BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Temple in Boynton Beach.

As the name of our team says BAPS LIONS (A Religious Organisation), our primary activities are religious & cultural and we cannot sideline those programmes over any other commitments. Co-incidentally, we have our annual Shri Swaminarayan Jayanti and Shri Ram Navmi celeberations scheduled on the very same day as the TFC 2010 finals. Please see the attached programme & invitation for our festivities to be held at the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Temple in Boynton on that day.

As much we all (BAPS LIONS) would have loved to play the finals but we are sorry to say that we shall be unavailable on 28th March, 2010. We would also like to mention that should there be any changes in the schedule of the finals, say by rains or otherwise, we will definitely be available to put on a good cricket show on any other day but Sunday afternoon.

We request the TFC board to kindly accept & highlight the fact of our unavailability on the TFC website and also announce the same on the game day in the cricket field.

We are sure that TFC and all others shall miss the BAPS LIONS on the main event day as much as we shall miss playing the finals. Accordingly, we request you to kindly plan the future events for Saturday.

Finally, we cordially invite all the TFC members to attend our cultural programme, if possible. Also we do have a religious gathering every sunday, called the BAPS Ravi Sabha, and all are welcome to attend the same at our BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Temple at Boynton Beach.

Thank you.

Jai Swaminarayan,

Rajat Rajendra Verma.
Captain, BAPS LIONS.

TFC BOARDS news (23rd Feb 2010):

Congratulations to Mukesh(Mike) Kumar for being nominated and elected to the TFC Board.

Mike your service and dedication to TFC since you signed up is well known and recognised, and I am sure you will be an asset to the team.

Mike replaces Mr. Jotinder Rana who stepped down recently due to work constraints.

Mike Welcome !

See the latest updates about the first day's games in the TFC II tournament on the King Cricket blog

http://kingcric.blogspot.com/

From the SCOF Newsletter

Updates 2009

IRCC WINS! IRCC WINS! IRCC WINS!

sending again as this part may have been lost in earlier newsflash!

Beyond Words!!!

One of the most enjoyable events I have had in the last 1o years of being in the US. Thanks to the organizers and participants.

overheard @ the event

Hearty Congratulations to the IRCC cricket team for winning the first ever Friendship Cup!

Yesterday, March 14 was a great day where even the weather co-operated the entire day. Congratulations to the other teams Samunder Club, Punjabi Association and Sindhi Association with excellent games.

Thank you to:

- Sanjay Paharia for putting the IRCC team together, arranging practices and leading the team to victory!

- Victor Swaroop for co-ordinating the activities from the IRCC side with the organizers of the event.

- Seema Shah for her contribution to the entertainment

- the IRCC Board for their support

- the families and especially the kids for their enthusiastic (and loud!) cheering - placards included! The audience spirit and support were wonderful!

Special thanks to Vinod Gulati for organizing this event and inviting us to play!

Thank you to all the players on the IRCC team for sacrificing their personal time and coming to practices, and joining together as a team to make this happen:

The IRCC team members were: Sanjay Paharia, Chetan Thakker, Ashish Dham, Sanjay Deo, Chetan Amin, Tushar Mutreja, Tushar Batra, Devang Kamdar (BAPS), Suresh Patel (BAPS), Hitesh Patel (BAPS), Sapan Bafna, Jatin Shah, Digant Shah.

Milan Khakhria

President, IRCC

Please click here to view some photographs taken at the Friendship Cup event!

http://irccflorida.smugmug. com/gallery/7603636_VgaaV/1/ 491636845_qnKn6

SEE YOU ALL THE HOLI PICNIC ON MARCH 29, 2009

FROM 11:00 AM TO 4:30 PM AT C.B. SMITH PARK!

VISIT HTTP://WWW.IRCCFLORIDA.COM

Dear All

Kindly find attached.

GMR SPORTS ATTACHMENT

Regards

Amrit Mathur

Chief Operating Officer

GMR Sports

Sir

You are welcome and we really enjoyed the day. Thanks to you for making it happen.

I know that many persons have put in the hard work but without your insistence and constant control of various situations , I doubt this could have been achievable.

Thanks to all who helped make this happen.

Best Regards
Satinder Baveja

Neville, as many others, you are all new entries in my life as we get to know each other. In short, I am the new kid on the block. Some wonderful emails and phone calls have come in, all very positve, happy and appreciative.

I am not a mechant navy lady and know very little of the cullture and club you belong to. All said and done, as I was reading your email, there was a phrase, or shall I say, an emotion and thought that you shared that just just grabbed my attention and respect for who and what you all may be.

When you say, 'my friend you get one of my special merchant navy salutes'. It is so profound that I don't think any explanation is needed. It speaks volums about you as a person and the club, association and the commaderie that you all share, as a whole.

I almost feel jealous and left out, in a nice way.

Wow!

Good-night,
Amita

IRCC WINS! IRCC WINS! IRCC WINS!

SCOF - RUNNERS UP !

to our sponsors, all our friends involved 24/7, coach David, the Umpires league, the viewers of these e-mails, the attendees - appreciate your support! Thank you - from TFC Board.

NEWSFLASH - NEWSFLASH - NEWSFLASH - FLASH - NEWSFLASH

www.thefriendshipcup.org

info@thefriendshipcup.org

REMINDER - REMINDER - REMINDER

WINNING RAFFLE TICKET #'S on our website!

Hi Sanjay, Victor & Milan:

Congratulations!

did we have a wager? if i lost anything i think i gained it back by SCOF being in the finals! who would have thought it!

i have sent a lot of pictures - let me know which few from these - or from your own photo guy - you want featured on our website - announcing the winners!!!!

Thank you and once again - "BRAGGING RIGHTS" for IRCC and the opportunity to display the trophy at each and every IRCC event! whenever you do so - i have plenty to game day programs left over (to promote the TFC for next year!)

many thanks - it was a pleasure getting to know you all. we all have made some new friends! is that not what it was all about !

kind regards,

TFC

Good Morning Raj:

Thank you. As is always the case in the lovely game of Cricket - TFC was truly a TEAM effort! Thank you very much for taking care of a million things!

We think everybody had FUN - and that was important to all of us.

It would be wonderful if more such events could be arranged and that our fragmented Indian community would and could come together! I heard there were recently "FIVE" Holi events ! Really now do we need so many ? Let us concentrate of a few events that each association does best and let us all join hands and make those "out-of-this-world' events. "The Friendship Cup" hopefully has taken a small tiny step in that direction.

It was your anniversary - you are most welcome!

Yes, let us all rest up - think about "just what happened" and take it where ever it can or the dedicated people can take it! It's all about people coming together!

I think we were ALL WINNERS!

cheers!

Good Morning VG,

Congratulations for organizing a great Cricket Event.

Congratulations to IRCC for winning the Trophy. They have a young, energetic & regular cricketers team and deserved to win.

Thanks for sending the beautiful pictures of the event. I am sure in a few days they will be posted on the TFC web site.

Everyone thoroughly enjoyed the food, picnic, ambiance & watching their loved ones playing cricket. The award ceremony was very well organized which closed out the whole event nicely.

Several participants approached me during the event requesting to continue with the occasional practice sessions & a friendly game/picnic amongst our community members more frequently (every other month or so). This could be an excellent way of meeting our new & old friends and an opportunity for our families to get to know each other better. Please let me know if any one has any suggestions/comments and interest in arranging such cricket/family picnic events on a more frequent basis along with an annual TFC event.

Thanks for allowing Shafali & I to cut our anniverasy cake. It was a total surprise to us. Thanks to her Anut & Uncle, Dr & Mrs Singh for bringing the cake. I was feeling quite awkward for getting personal & TFC event mixed. It was very gracious of you for allowing that to happen.

Rest up well, you need it & deserve it...

Best Regards,

Raj Data

Hello Good Morning!

Congratulations to IRCC!

a few pictures - more to follow.

Many Thanks to all for participating and for all your help to make TFC '09 - possible and certainly an event to remember - in more ways that one!

we hope they bring back happy memories!

brgds

vinod

Dear Victor, Nick & Arun:

Thank you for your kind words.

It was a pleasure coming together and knowing you all - without all your support this would not have been possible! I think SAF was one of the associations - more than any other - to fully support the concept and "back-it-up" with some hard work in order to make it a success!

There will always be winners an losers - it's a gentleman's game - and your congratulations and spirit is appreciated.

finally there will only be ONE winner - all of us!

until next year .............all suggestions/comments/critique always welcome - so we may continually improve upon this unique concept!

sincerely,

Dear Vinod

I want to express my sincere thanks and appreciation on behalf of the SAF team for taking so much time and trouble for all the BUZZ and propaganda in promoting the Friendship Cup.

We are truly appreciative for all your hard work and this has defintly been noticed by all of us. We all had a good time and hope to continue and better ourselves as a team to compete well with the others. Thank you again..

Regards

V. Khemlani

Captain SAF Team

Hi Amita:

Good Morning ! finally it's over. what a day!

many thanks for all you have done - everything you touched was lovely - the exhibit, the awards ceremony, the amount of tickets you sold, the public relations, working with others, all your guidance and advise, gosh i hope i did not forget anything. do thank Shammi too. we missed him.

Sorry i could not make much of a speech!

thank you once again. Hope next year ............!

Dear all,

Thank you all for today’s great event & for your efforts.

Without your participation it would have not been possible. Relax and enjoy your rest of the week-end.

The Friendship Cup has really given us some good friends – let’s keep in touch

Please convey our personal thanks and appreciation to all the orginizers and the volunteers.

Cheers!!

Jotinder Rana

PASF President

BRING YOURBEACH CHAIRS and sunblock!

March 14, 2009 very early morning edition

Come friends Join us today!

let's have FUN!

remember Cricket is a "Gentleman's" game - play your heart out - go for the win! but do not forget to have fun!

the best of luck to all the teams!

The game is bigger than any of us! this event is bigger than any of us!

Good Luck - have fun and remember the spectators are looking for some fireworks!

Thank you ALL for making this event possible. Come let's put on a SHOW!

Chak De!

vinod gulati

for the Board "thefriendshipcup" org

Hello Friends:

what are friends for ? come let's meet once again and have a ball!

The ladies are putting up a show - there are more games for them and the kids - than the cricket stuff!

from our Food court & entertainment "GURU"

>   Pav
>   Bhaji
>   Hot Dogs
>   Tandoori Chicken
>   Pepper Paneer
>   Boneless Chicken Biryani
>   Jeera Rice with Chana
>   Fruit Cream
>   Chutneys for the food
>    Raita (pudina)
>   OPEN BAR - schhhhhhhh!
>
>   Also for Entertainment we have arranged the  following:
>
>   Bounce House (4 hrs between 12.30 and 4.30pm)
>   Trackless Train (1 Hr)
>   Popcorn
>   Cotton Candy
>   Arts and Crafts (Thru a professional--4 hrs)
>   Face painting (thru a professional--4 hrs)
>   10 different interactive games for all ages - MANY PRIZES!
>
>   For half time Dhamaka from SAF & PASF -     a colourful dance show. (surprise)
>

FOUR raffles! AC E Dj - music - music - music - want to sing ? be our guest!

>   Awards ceremony!
>
>   Thank You.
>
>   Arun Gidwani
>
>   President
>
>   SAF

old - yesterdays news

HALFTIME - DHAMAKA! Like the "HALF Time" Show!!!!!

do support our KIDS from each Association performing their Folk or Team Dances.

PASF -- Bhangra

IRCC -- Garba

SAF -- Sindhi Folk Dance

SCOF -- what ever the Pirates do best!

WAY TO GO !

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Visit: www.indianpremiercricketleague.com

when there click on banner "thefriendshipcup". have fun!

do not believe everything that Sanjay says - he is being gracious.

its like in politics - raise the expectations of the others while lowering your own - at least in public!

i am soooo glad to see IRCC finally enter the verbal fray! Beeerrrry good!

(if they are so slow even on the field - we have them COLD!)

Mr. Milan and his Monster words…Milan, you should see the SASF and SCOF line up…you will see a real Monster in the SASF team, who can eat us all alive in 1 over of his….As far as SCOF is concerned, the old heart you are talking about was batting as though he had just turned 21 (Mr. Vinod himself).

Of course the PASF team is not yet seen, but I can bet that will be another good looking rooster…

Now those are fiery words ! Sanjay perhaps over estimates his "monsters" when he reports to you. inscribing the trophy already - perhaps getting ready for the team photograph - God you guys are "really" practicing!

thank you for the first aid kit. I will miss the nurses though. at my age with this old heart - the least one can expect from our doctor fraternity is some TLC and such considerations! it has been said - unconfirmed - that the heart rate goes up when you see a pretty - what ever! is this good or bad for the heart ? with a few nurses around i thought that the Royals would have some pretty good company while they watched the other teams play the finals!

see you on Saturday! any wager you would like to place ? a side bet perhaps ?

cheers!

getting younger with every ball!

IRCC - of course will be the first name on the winners engraving of the cup! Sanjay tells me, he has created a monster team that is itching to get on the field. Trust me, he is not one to boast without reason.

I look forward to meeting you all on Saturday. I will have the first aid box with me. I am still trying for that pretty nurse you requested, but I understand your old heart may not be able to take it if she was too pretty. LOL.

See you Saturday.

Milan

Why would I not be on board on a fabulous event added by your and other organizers fine efforts!! Absolutely.

mukesh narang

Arun

Thanks

You have a great team.

I notice that age of your oldest player is 44 years whereas our youngest player is 45 years.

Cheers!!

Jotinder

from THE tiger -

You know there is a saying which goes something like:

"It does not matter how much snow is on the roof, its the fire down in the furnace which counts"

Not necessarily true on the cricket field but certainly OFF the field it matters!!!

Appeal to the board would be in works if I get dis-qualified!!!! TIGERS will stage a Dharna (Protest) if needed....LOL....

By the Way, I am so passionate about this cricket tournament that I gave away Shafali's Anniversary (03/14) Gift Money to "TheFriendshipCup" ....It took lots of convincing....BUT sometimes we have to make some tough choices. She understands now that her sacrifce will go a long way in helping TFC get started....

Lastly, I need TFC logo in Vector format - Prompto....Screen printer is waiting for it!!!!

Talk to you later....

previous issue

received today -

quote

Dear Vinod,

I admire & appreciate your team's efforts of promoting the game of cricket amongst our community by organizing "TheFriendshipCup" Tournament. Like many of us from India, I have played this sport for several years in high school & college days. Even now, I am an avid fan of the sport and like to watch & play every chance I get.

To help "TheFriendshipCup" organization succeed in its mission, my wife & I would like to contribute $1,000 towards "TheFriendshipCup" funds to be utilized for the upcoming cricket tournament and in support of Youth Cricket in South Florida.

On behalf of my family & my company staff, we wish "TheFriendshipCup" tremendous success for now and for many years to come.

With Best Wishes,

Shafali & Raj Data, Parkland, FL

unquote

This all started from the lovely surprise 50th party Shafali gave for Raj some 2 years ago! The logo she developed is attached. it introduced us once again to Cricket!

Thank you Raj & Shafali - much appreciated. we are a non-profit organization and need all the support we can get! Appreciate it ! thank you.

vinod for & on behalf of the Board.

SPONSOR LISTINGS WILL SOON BE AVAILABLE ON OUR WEBSITE!

an internal document obtained by our ever vigilant reporter "insidejob"!

quote

Hello TIGERS:

Great Practice session Yesterday !!!!!

We scored 147 in 20 overs - Excellent Job, team...Thanks to Dileep's powerful strokes play....He was on fire....50 from 15 balls...WOW!!!! What a discovery, Many thanks to Felix for inducting him to the PASF Team. We scored over 60 runs (incl wides) in the last 7 overs, that is about 9 an over, which is very respectable rate by any standards.

Our opponents (warriors) were able to score 118 (34 wides & no balls, which we need to control)...We got 4 wickets in first four overs which put lot of pressure on them,,,,Thanks to excellent length & line display by Vivek & Pavan...Amazing performances from both with almost no practice. Vivek - 2 wickets and One maiden wicket over & gave no extras....WOW!!! Pavan - 2 wickets and took one catch...Way to Go..... We also witnessed great Leg spin bowling demonstration from Girish...he surprised many of us with his unassuming ability to turn the ball which considerably controlled the run rate.....and finally our own Dr. Baldev....Man...what can I say, some tigers are natural athletes...great variety of bowling display with a maiden wicket over and also scored quick 17 in final overs....

I am gald to see Weston TIGERS are out of their DEN and ready to ROAR......They are natural bowlers or shall I say Hunters!!!...Don't need much practice......

We need to work little more on our fielding, Even though field placing was appropriate for most part, thanks to Dileep for lending his expertise, we can use some quick foot work specially while chasing the ball. We will place young Lads like Raja, Akshat, Ashutosh and strong armers like Vimal, Vivek & Dileep in the outer field.They say in cricket, Catches win Matches....Its so true...Pavan, Raja & Vimal took very crucial catches. Sorry, if I missed some one, I was in & out of the field for different reasons.

I am hoping for speedy recovery of following TIGERS: a ferocious batsman, Ashok (calf injury), a true All rounder, Nindi (sprained shoulder) & an indispensable wicket keeper, Pradeep (sprained finger).....Get well soon tigers.....We need each one of you with all your killer instincts, speed & power for the game day....

Finally, We will be practicing on Wednesday (7-10pm) at Lauderhill park (Univ & Oakland), Last practice before the Game.... We will work on all important aspect of the game...Batting, Fielding & Bowling...I understand if some of the tigers can't make it due to injury, work, family etc etc...Its open to any PASF Team member who wants to come out & fine tune their cricketing skills before the Game Day.

Any suggestions towards improving our Team performance are always welcome........

Warm Regards,

Raj

Chak De PASF....go TIGERS....