www.calcricket.org 2 31 CONTENTS A Message From The Vice-Mayor ……………..……...…………………………… 5 Event Management Team………………………..………………………………….. 6 Welcome Note From The CCA …………………..……………………………...… 7 Cricketing Norms ...…………...….……………………………………….…………. 9 T20 Is Killing Cricket? ….…..………….…………………………………...…….... 11 T20 Is Destroying Cricket …...…………………………………………………….. 12 Some Cricket Laughs! ……………………………………………………………... 14 Why I Like Cricket …………………...………………………………………………15 A Thank You Note from the CCA……………………………………..…………… 16 Secret Of My Cricketing …………...……………………………………….……… 17 Boosting My Cricketing Skills ………….………………………………………….. 17 So You Think You Can “Cricket” ……….…………………………………………. 18 The Spirit Of Cricket ………………….……………………………………………. 19 The Champions! ………………….………………………………………………… 20 Against All Odds! ………………...….…………....…………………………………21 The Rules Of Cricket ………………….…………………………………………… 22 Solution to the Crossword Puzzle…………………………………………...…… 22 Caught in Action…………………………………………….……...………...……. 23 Guess Who?.................................................................................................... 27 Magazine Concept & Design: Chanchal Sahai, Shiva Srivastava, Swapna Shintre Publication Credit : California Cricket Academy Cricket Festival Logo: Kinjal Buch Cover Page Artwork: Vedanth Venkatachari VEDANTH 30 3 4 29 We wish participants of Cricket Festival a Great Success!! 21267 Stevens Creek Blvd. Cupertino, CA 95014 (408) 255-0160 28 5 Event Management Logistics Team Management Team: Biju Kattuparambil, Ground & Team Management: Pavan Bharani Seshan, Kinjal Buch, Hemant Buch Mullapudi, Balaji Venkatachari Marketing Team: Yogen Kapadia, Hemant Team Registration & Verification: Rajesh Buch, Kinjal Buch, Anupam Sahai, Rajib Ar- Bhat, Poornima Bhat jun, Rajesh Sengamedu, Rajesh Srivastava, Bharani Seshan, Biju Kattuparambil, Helen Team Grouping & Scheduling: Bharani Greys, Amritha Raghunathan, Rajeev Srini- Seshan, Biju Kattuparambil, Kinjal Buch vasan, Ram Varadarajan, Bhumika Kapadia Tournament Rules/Review/Oversight Website & Social Media: Rajesh Bhat, Biju Committee: Biju Kattuparambil, Mihir Jari- Kattuparambil wala, Mahesh Urs, Yashodhan Deshpande, Mahesh Vaghela, Balaji Venkatachari Media Publication Team: Chanchal Sahai, Shiva Srivastava, Swapna Shintre Umpires & Scoring: Hemant Buch, Neeraj Bhalla, Biju Nair Opening & Closing Ceremony: Nitin Buty, Disciplinary Committee: Hasu Patel, Biju Kanika Vora Kattuparambil, Sundar Ramakrishnan Hospitality & Awards: Kinjal Buch Star Volunteers Game Day SWAT Team Abraham Amirtharaj, Anshuman Shukla, Arsh Buch, Atul Kamchetti, Bhavesh Patel, Devdeep Biju Kattuparambil (408) 888 7693 Kabiraj, Ganesh Amara, Gurvinder Singh, Har- dik Bhalala, Kamal Karimanal, Kishore Sriniva- Bharani Seshan (408) 656-6855 san, Kshama Kanakoor, Madhavan Arunacha- lam, Pavan Vithaladevaram, Pranav Pradhan, Hemant Buch (408) 203-3594 Pranay Suri, Prateek Sonawala, Prem Jain, Rajan Sood, Rajkumar Mishra, Rakhi Jain, Balaji Venkatachari (408) 644-0299 Roshan Varadarajan, Sanjib Goswami, Shefali Bhalala, Vinay Khosla, Mahendra Patel, Vibhav Biju Nair (408) 768-1976 Altekar, Rohan Khasgiwala, Neil Tagare ** CCA Would specially like to thank those volunteers whose names we may have missed inadvertently due to oversight or Twitter Updates: Biju Kattuparambil because they joined the team after the pub- lication of this magazine. You know we are forever grateful for your help! 6 27 Yogen Kapadia Yashodhan Deshpande Pavan Mullapudi Poornima Bhat Biju Nair Balaji Venkatachari Bharani Seshan Shiva Srivastava Welcome to the National Cricket Festival 2016! Chanchal Sahai Anupam Sahai Rajib Arjun Neeraj Bhalla 2003 was a significant in the history of youth cricket in USA. That year, we founded California Cricket Academy with the primary goal of providing highest level of Biju Kattuparambil Kanika Vora coaching to youth in the Bay area and providing a platform for them to be able to Nitin Buty Mihir Jariwala play competitive cricket at the highest level in USA. And now, as we complete 13 Arsh Buch years of existence, we can proudly say that we have achieved both and are still Swapna Shintre striving to achieve more. Rajesh Bhat This journey has been an extremely rewarding experience for us mainly because of unwavering support of many people in Cupertino and larger Bay area – Cupertino City Council, Cupertino Parks & Recreation Department, other Cricket leagues in the region and above all, hundreds of parents who have devoted thousands of hours of their valuable time in helping us promote this wonderful team sport just because of their passion for the game. Can you match the pictures on page 27 CCA is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization and its survival and progress depend on donations. In our journey, we are fortunate to have financial support from several donors, some of them multiple times, who have contributed by way of sponsorships to the names given above? during last 13 years. We sincerely thank all of our Sponsors for making our dream come true. Our special thanks to Tech Mahindra and ThinkPalm Technologies, the Platinum Sponsors of this Cricket Festival. Cricket is the fastest growing sport in USA. There is tremendous talent here which can be groomed to play on international stage if we, as organizers, can provide proper training and infrastructure for their development. In coming years, CCA ’s dream is to create complete, dedicated, world class cricket facility in the Bay area and we look forward to working with the government agencies, private entities and the community and in making this dream a reality. We wish all participants of this festival a great success. THANKS Let the games begin!! Thanks, Kinjal & Hemant Buch Founders, CCA 10307 BRET AVENUE, CUPERTINO, CA 95014 PHONE: 408-777-9983 www.calcricket.org 26 7 THANKS 8 25 FIELDING POSITIONS THANKS 24 9 CAUGHT IN ACTION A VISIT TO THE MECCA OF CRICKET, LORDS, UK, 2014 CCA U/12 TEAM 10 23 THE RULES OF CRICKET T20 is killing cricket. T20 is killing cricket? You have two sides, one out in the By Nitin Deo field and one in. Each man that's in the side that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes “Facebook is going to kill face-to- face meetings!” “Twitter is going to kill headline in until he's out. When they are all out, news!” “Internet is going to kill newspaper business!” And “T20 is going to kill cricket!” the side that's out comes in and the side I am sure you have heard these. Now, allow me to turn these upside down. that’s been in goes out and tries to get “Facebook is enabling people to get in touch with long lost friends! ” “Twitter is those coming in, out. Sometimes you bringing fresh news by the minute!” “Internet is connecting all dots across the globe!” get men still in and not out. And “T20 is revitalizing interest in cricket!” Ladies and Gentlemen, we have to learn to move with the world. If we want our tra- When a man goes out to go in, the ditions to be carried forward to the young generation, we must do whatever it takes for men who are out try to get him out, and them to understand those traditions – explain to them in the language they understand. when he is out he goes in and the next If using rotary phone and writing letters is the only way you want to keep in touch with man in goes out and goes in. There are the world, if only reading the news in printed newspaper the only way you want to stay two men called umpires who stay all out informed, then my friend, you are sadly mistaken. By the time your communication all the time and they decide when the reaches your friends and by the time you get the news, it would be already too old and men who are in are out. uninteresting. Similarly, if the only way you want to pass on your religion – the game of Cricket – to the next generation is with long 5-day test cricket, then my friend even your When both sides have been in and own son or your daughter will prefer to stay home study (or pretend to study) instead of all the men have been out, and both going to the ground for 5 days. sides have been out twice after all the Cricket teaches physical discipline, team work, commitment, builds mental strength, men have been in, including those who teaches importance of focus on the job – while having loads of fun. If you don’t shine are not out, that is the end of the game! while batting, you can do well in bowling. If you don’t bowl well enough, you can be a stellar fielder. And none of these traits change whether it is a 5-day game or 20-over 4- hour game. Wishing CCA Great Success If you don’t agree, that’s fine. It just means that you don’t want to adapt new things. It just means that you want to stay back in the 1900’s. But, don’t worry. I will still play cricket with you – because I love the sport. I will see you on the ground for 5 days in a in Hosting row, while you use your notebook and pen instead of laptop or smart phone; change in- to dhoti-kurta instead of jeans and t-shirt; walk home in your leather chappals instead of using a car; and enjoy your daal-chaaval on a thali sitting on the floor instead of hav- California Cricket Festival. ing salad or chicken tikka, on a table! Together let’s kill progress, let’s kill comfort, let’s kill enthusiasm – in the name of tradition! And let cricket die because the young gener- ation will not be interested in it. Or we can embrace the new trend(s) while instilling the positives of this wonderful sport such as physical fitness, mental strength, team spirit, competitive yet fair behav- ior and most of all having fun playing cricket with our sons, daughters as well as fa- thers, uncles and aunts – and keeping up with CCA trend have good food while watch- ing or playing! Celebrating Youth Cricket in America 22 11 T20 IS DESTROYING CRICKET Against all odds! By Naresh Sadasivan T20 Cricket has turned cricket as we knew, on its head.