THE PRESIDENTS, THE TEAMS & OTHER INTERESTING TRIVIA
Inter-Association Cricket Tournament 2010

“The Friendship Cup”                                                                 

The Friendship Cup is a unique concept for South Florida, and is primarily inspired and modeled on the huge success of the DLF Indian Premier League T20. Its primary aim being to bring all our various Indian Associations together on a common platform – “Cricket” the sport all we love – create an excitement and relive our cricketing days here in South Florida  – by having a Cricket Mela !

"thefriendshipcup" is a non-profit organization. A few of the many aims of thefriendshipcup organization is to sponsor Indian "youth cricket programs" and encourage the game within all age groups. “thefriendshipcup” is funded by monies that come in from individuals, corporate and small business sponsors and the Associations participating. This year a part of the funds raised will go to a Haiti earthquake relief fund.

TFC Cricket - this second year, we have six associations participating namely SAF, PASF, SCOF, KACF, SFTS & BAPS. We welcome our new teams and we understand two other associations are interested for 2011 and are getting their teams ready. The 2009 tournament was a huge success and we hope that TFC II will be fully supported by the community and our prospective sponsors.

We thank all our supporters and sponsors and wish all the teams the best of luck - may the best team win! Go get the “CUP”!

Vinod Gulati

President – “thefriendshipcup” organization

February 6, 2010

contact: info@thefriendshipcup.org                        www.thefriendshipcup.org 

P.S. Do support the TFC - all of us doing our little part in bringing our great community together. Become an annual member. Click for Application Form.

The Friendship Cup Board
 
Vinod Gulati
Amita Singh
Jotinder Rana
Neville Dias
Arun Gidwani
Vivek Swaroop
Raj Data
 
 
TFC Cricket Council
 
Gaurav Dixit
T.K. Singh
Vivek Mishra

 Letter by Amita Singh

Hi Everyone,
 
Once again it is that time of the year & we bring to you 'The Friendship Cup' - a time to celebrate cricket. The Friendship Cup (TFC) is a culmination of a great idea to bring together families to a fun-in-the-sun sporting event. Indian Associations and Clubs are invited to participate in a 20/20 format Cricket tournament played over a few weeks. All the day/night matches are played at the  Central Broward Regional Park . Last year we had 4 teams and this year for TFC - II we have grown to 6 teams.We already have 2 other teams interested in joining us next year. A schedule of TFC II - 2010 matches is attached.

The teams participating this year in TFC II are:
 
BABS                         A religious Organisation                                                      "Lions"
PASF                         Punjabi Association of South Florida                                 "Tigers" 
SAF                            Sindhi Association of Florida                                              "Warriors" 
SCOF                         Samundar Club of Florida                                                    "Pirates" 
SFTS                          South Florida Tamil Sangam                                               "Seamers"
KACF                         Kerala Association of Central Florida                                 "Strikers" 
  

The finals this year are in the "Main Stadium" on Sunday, March 28th 2010 from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM at Central Broward Regional Park, 3700 N.W.11th Place, Lauderhill , Florida, Corner of Sunrise and 441.


www.broward.org/parks/cbrp.htm

 
In the TFC tournament's short life span, there is a lot of interest and competition and all teams dream of winning the prestigious TFC trophy. For those of you who missed out on last year’s event, you can find pictures and more details on - (also check the photos page)

 

http://irccflorida.smugmug.com/gallery/7603636_VgaaV/1/491636845_qnKn6#491630924_pXy85

www.cmichaelmeade.com


 
This year we are of course planning a much bigger and grander event, centre stage. It will be held on Sunday, March 28th from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM. We are also planning a fun, energetic, spectacular "half-time" show starting at 1:00 PM. Anita Amin of Nrityanjali International Performing Arts (NIPA) and a Bollywood and Folk Dance Instructor and Choreographer is the Chair Person of the half-time show. I will be personally helping her as much as I can. We are interested in folk and popular dances of India - by children and adults too! You can contact Anita Amin at 954-282-1266, also .anita@nrityanjaliarts.com  or contact the undersigned.


Also, if anybody is interested in sponsoring or advertising for this event, there are many opportunities available to suit various budgets. Please get in touch with me and I can send you some information on rates/possibilities or you will find it on this site.
 
Let's all come together and have tons of fun and a fun day of cricket with a festival like atmosphere. There will be food, drinks, booths, shops, Ace DJ, Dhol walla and various activities for the whole family - children too.

 

A Cricket Mela ! Entrance to the stadium is FREE!
 
Looking forward to hearing from all of you - come join us and let's have some good old DESI FUN!
 
Take care, 
Amita Singh
772-485-7937
 pinkspinks@hotmail.com or info@thefriendshipcup.org
 

P.S.: Do support Cricket & the TFC - All of us doing our little part in bringing our Indian community together. Become an annual member.

Team Rosters

TEAM NAME : BAPS Lions
Name of Player Member Since League Player?
1 Rajat Varma 2005 Yes
2 Chirag Patel 1991 No
3 Hemant Bhavsar 2005 No
4 Kunal Patel 1980 No
5 Manoj Patel 2000 No
6 Nimesh Patel 2000 No
7 Rajesh Bhavsar 2006 No
8 Devang Kamdar 2005 No
9 Hitesh Patel 1990 No
10 Divyang Patel 2005 No
11 Bharat Patel 1980 No
12 Nibodh Patel 1970 No
13 Sulay Shah 2004 No
14 Akshay Kamdar 2004 No
15 Alpesh Mistry 2005 No

TEAM NAME : KACF Lakeland Strikers
Name of Player Member Since League Player?
1 Philan Mathew 2006 No
2 Joseph Philip 2006 No
3 Jobin Philip  2006 No
4 Bibin Kurivilla 2006 No
5 Allen Mathew 2006 No
6 Deny Xavier 2006 No
7 Jason Jatti 2006 No
8 Jesvin Thomas 2008 Yes
9 Jithin Joseph 2006 No
10 Charlie John 2006 No
11 Aji Thomas 2006 No
12 Jaison Jose 2008 Yes
13 Rexa Abraham 2006 No
14 Jim John 2006 No
15 Tijo Ouseph 2006 No
16 Ajeesh Joseph 2006 No
17 Jeffery John 2006 No
18 Samson Abraham 2006 No

TEAM NAME : SCOF Pirates
Name of Player Member Since League Player?
1 T.K. Singh  2006 No
2 Ranjan Dutta 2006 No
3 K. Singh (Jolly) (Capt.) 2006 No
4 Neville Dias (V.Capt) 2006 No
5 Rohit Puri (Manager) 2006 No
6 Mark D’Sa 2006 No
7 P. Karnik 2006 No
8 L. Sequeira 2006 No
9 Dilip Sawant  2006 No
10 S.Yadav 2006 No
11 Vinod Gulati  2006 No
12 Chetan Amin From Pool No
13 Ravi Mehta 2006 No
14 JJS Yadav 2006 No
15 Subir Mukerjee 2006 No
16 George Verghese 2006 No
17 D Matta 2006 No
18 Salil Kapoor 2006 No
19 Prakash Nanduri From Pool No
20 Sandeep Sohal From Pool No
21 Ramesh Rapelly From Pool No

TEAM NAME : SFTS
Name of Player Member Since League Player?
1 Rajesh Kaniyur 2003 Prior to 2006
2 Hari Muthusamy 2003 Prior to 2009
3 Krishna Sridhar 1997 No
4 Ravikumar Masilamani 2004 No
5 Venkat Raghav  2007 Yes
6 Venkatesh Jayaraman 2003 No
7 Karthik Sundaram  2003 Prior to 2007
8 Raj shanmugam  1999 Prior to 2008
9 Ramaji Ganesh 2001 No
10 Murali chandrasekar 2003 No
11 Natarajan Palani 2008 No
12 Chummar Maly 2006 No
13 Ezhilan  2008 Prior to 2009
14 Raja Sampath 2009 No

TEAM NAME : SAF
Name of Player Member Since League Player?
1 Vashi Khemlani (Capt) 2003 No
2 Vic Shroff    (Vice Capt) 2003 No
3 Arun Gidwani 2003 No
4 Gaurav Dixit 2004 No
5 Raj Amarnani 2003 No
6 Naresh Tolani 2003 No
7 Danny Bipninder Singh Pool No
8 Haresh Gurnani 2004 No
9 Vivek Mishra 2006 No
10 Girish Kumar 2006 No
11 Vikas Bhadauria 2007 No
12 Sunil Khiyani 2003 No
13 Aditya Gir Pool No
14 Nick Vora 2004 No
15 Kaushik Padala Pool No
16 Mohammad Nayeem Pool No
17 Amaresh Manthena Pool No
18 Dhanunjay Mudragada Pool No

TEAM NAME: PASF
  Name of Player Member Since League Player?
       
1 Raj Data* 2009 N
2 Dalip Madnani* 2009 Y
3 Felix Campos* 2009 N
4 Mukesh Kumar* 2009 N
5 Deepak Khanna* 2009 N
6 Imran Yusuf* 2010 N
7 Akbar Mateen* 2009 Y
8 Praveen Y Kumar* 2009 N
9 Krishna Rangam* 2009 N
10 Digant Shah* IRCC N
11 Govind Raj* SFTS N
12 Srikant Mavanur* SFTS N
13 Anand Ramasamienger* SFTS N
14 Ramji Rengarajan SFTS N
15 Appu Rathinavelu SFTS N
16 Ashok Vijay* 2008 N
17 Tushar Batra* 2009 N
18 Baldev Singh* Life N
19 Nindi Chhabbra* Life N
20 Maheswar Dey* 2010 N
21 Arjit Joshi* No N
22 Vishant Sharma* No N
23 Anil Nadkarni* No N
24 Vivek Sarin* No N