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JAMMU: As decided earlier, Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association (JKCA) will conduct its own league matches in different categories and formats after the ‘Talent Hunt’ trials from May 15, 2022. The various tournaments will be conducted on zonal basis for which both Jammu and Kashmir regions will be divided into four zones each. The tournament will be called ‘Cricket for Peace’ tournament.
This was informed by Brig Anil Gupta, Member Administration JKCA and Advocate Sunil Sethi, Member Legal Affairs JKCA while reviewing the arrangements for the conduct of first of its kind rather historic JKCA’s Talent Hunt trials to be followed by the tournaments in order to make selection process fair, transparent. They said the tournaments will be held in both Junior (U-19, U-16 One-Dayers, Jr men 2-day) and Senior (Sr Women’s One Day, Men U-23 One Day, Sr Men One-Day, Sr Men Multi-Day) categories. “Former First Class Cricketer Ashwani Gupta has been nominated as the Tournament Incharge of Jammu Province, while another Former First Class Cricketer Abdul Qayoom has been nominated as Tournament Incharge of Kashmir province including Ladakh and Roopali Slathia has be named as the Tournament Incharge for Women in both the regions and Ladakh,” informed Brig Gupta. He said for the purpose of Talent Hunt, the UT of Jammu and Kashmir has been divided into 8 zones, while Ladakh will be zone 4 of Kashmir province. “Zone 1 of Jammu province will include Ramban, Doda, Kishtwar; Zone 2 will comprise Reasi, Udhampur, Kathua; Zone 3 includes Jammu and Samba and Zone 4 will include Rajouri and Poonch districts, while North Kashmir will be Zone 1 of Kashmir province, Central Kashmir will be Zone 2, South Kashmir Zone 3 and Ladakh as Zone 4,” added Brig Gupta.
“The cut of dates for U-23 category-born on after September 1, 1999; U-19-born on or after September 1, 2003; U-16-born on or after September 1, 2006,” said Advocate Sethi. The Sub Committee Members after announcing the Talent Hunt teams and the Organising Committee, served strict instructions to all concerned for holding this cricketing extravaganza in a befitting manner. Member Administration JKCA further informed that the events will begin will Under-19 Women’s One-Day Tournament on May 15, which will be followed by Under-19 Men One Day on May 25, Senior Women One-Day on June 23, Under-23 Men One-Day on June 14, Senior Men One-Day on June 24 , Men Junior Multi-Days on July 5 and Men Senior Multi-Days on July 23.
He further said the finals in U-19 Women One-Day, U-19 Men One-Day, Senior Women One-Day and U-23 Men One-Day will be held at Jammu on May 23, May 31, June 11 and June 20 respectively, while the finals of Senior Men One-Day, Men Junior Multi-Days and Men Senior Multi-Days will be held at Srinagar on June 30, July 16 and August 11 respectively.
“The Talent Hunt team for Ladakh included Ashwani Gupta, Roopali Slathia, Vikrant Taggar and Surabhi Dadheechi, while the teams for Talent Hunt (Men) for Jammu province Zone 1 ie, Poonch, Rajouri, Sundebani, Nowshera include Jagtar Singh, Surjeet Singh, Gurupratap Singh and Pawan Sharma; for zone 2 ie Reasi, Udhampur and Kathua, the Talent Hunt team includes Ranjeet Bali, Rakesh Koul, Vivek Singh and Bharat Sharma; for Zone 3 (Doda, Kishtwar, Ramban), the team includes Vikrant Taggar, Suresh Singh, Akshay Khajuria and Shafkat Malik; for Zone 4 (Jammu, Samba), the Talent Hunt team comprises of Amit Pal Singh, Sanjay Sharma, Inderjeet Singh, Harsh Nayyar, while for The Talent Hunt team for Kashmir region North Zone include Arshad Bhat, Fayaz Hazari, Shabir Kanth and Hilal Ahmad, while for South Zone the Talent Hunt team comprises of Irshad Hassan, Asif Jeelani, Obaid Haroon and Farooq Akhoon and for Central Zone, the Talent Hunt team includes Manzoor Dar,, Huwaid Ronga, Imran Haroon Haroon and Zahoor Sofi.
For Jammu region women, the Talent Hunt teams include Madhu Sharma, Rajni Sharma and Anuradha Sharma (Ramban, Doda, Kishtwar); Surabhi Dadheechi, Pooja Sharma and Madhu Bandral (Udh, Reasi, Kathua); Payal Choudhary, Veena Sharma and Anita Gupta (Jammu, Samba); Pratibha Bhasin, Anju Gupta and Richa Trisal (Rajouri, Poonch), while for Kashmir division women, the Talent Hunt teams include Masrat Ahad, Qurat-ul-an, Saima Rashid (North Zone); Kounsar Ali, Ravinder Kour Parveen Akhtar (Central Zone); Masrat Ahad, Sumaya and Elizabeth Mumtaz (South Zone). Meanwhile, the Organising Committe for Jammu includes Sandeep Singh Sunny, Veemarsh Kaw, Mohit Puri and Surekha Devi, while Organising Committee for Kashmir includes Zahoor Sofi, Manzoor Ahmed Lone, Huwaid Ronga and Tasaduq Rashid.
Rajesh Dhar has been nominated as the Media/Publicity Manager for the entire event, while Ashwani Chadha will be the physio at GGM Science College Hostel Ground, Jammu,” informed JKCA Sub Committee Members.