Champs double up

This double wicket tournament is an fund raising event by the Champs organisation which has been formed recently to help needy sportsmen who have fallen on bad days. One former cricketer has been paired with a person form the business and corporate world for this tournament.

Sunil Gavaskar, one of the trustees of the organisation said that this will be a two over contest and if a cricketer gets out then six runs will be deducted from the total while if a person from the corporate world gets out only four runs will be deducted from the team score.

Gavaskar said that it was difficult to make an estimate about the funds received because they were still pouring in.

Gavaskarinformed the press that Ramanath Parkar is definitely on the top. 8220;We would be going through the Mumbai Cricket Association in extending our help to him,8221; he added.

The Pairings

Dilip Vengsarkar-Naseeruddin Shah, Roger Binny-Hoshida Press, Sunil Gavaskar-Nikhil Meswani, Kapil Dev-Vijay Mallya, Balwinder Sandhu-Pappu Bhutani, Sandeep Patil-Khalid Ansari, Mohinder Amarnath-Nirmal Zaveri, G R Vishwanath-Sanjeev Malhotra, Kirti Azad-A R Bhukatir, Salil Ankola-Kalyan Ganguly, Sanjay Manjrekar-Sunil Alagh, Syed Kirmani-Kishan Ghelot, Yashpal Sharma-Charu Sharma, Sir Vivian Richards-Pawan Munjal.