Kolkata: Aditya School of Sports (ASOS) organised ASOS T20 League 2021 which concluded on January 31 at the ASOS Diego Maradona Cricket Stadium in Barasat. Eight teams participated in the competition — CBC, United, Young Club, Sunflower, Phoenix, Seven Eleven, Thrilling and BAF.
Two star-studded teams ASOS XI and Tollywood XI played a celebrity match to light up the tournament on the final day. Tollywood XI was captained by actor Jisshu Sengupta while the ASOS XI were led by Anirban Aditya. Former India spinner Piyush Chawla attended the event as a special guest. Senior journalists Boria Majumdar and Gautam Bhattacharya were the inimitable commentators of the game.
ASOS XI were loaded with frisky and zestful players like Ankit Aditya, Anirban Aditya, Arnab Nandi, Ishan Porel, Subhomoy Das, Beauty Chakraborty, Shikhar Tandon, Avishek Mazumdar, Fidaul Haque, Faisal Haque, Subhodeep Hore, Satadru Dutta, Ambarish Srivastava and Satadeep Saha.
On the other hand, Tollywood XI embraced the talented and high-spirited famous faces like Jisshu Sengupta, Srijit Mukherjee, Joyee Deb Roy, Indrasish Roy, Sourav Das, Gaurav Chakraborty, Ananda Sankar Chowdhury, Mohan Das, Sushil Shikaria, Jeetu Kamal and Pallab.
Both the teams played sprightly with the strong bond of friendship among the players clearly visible. They were vying to mark a higher place on the scoreboard with an obvious seed of competition growing within them. The match ended in a draw with both the teams finishing at 124. Anirban and Jisshu were announced as the Players of the Match.
“Our whole point of organizing this amateur tournament is to promote Sports and Fitness, especially after this pandemic. We have also spotted few of the players who have played exceptionally well and have full potential to go and play for nationals or the IPL for one. And today’s match went off really well The team spirit was amazing,” Anirban said.
Jisshu was quite impressed with the Diego Maradona ASOS Cricket Stadium. He said, “The Diego Maradona ASOS cricket stadium is one of a kind fantastic venue. I loved the energy of the players. It was a wonderful Sunday.
