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This is an archive article published on October 28, 1998

Inter-District cricket

NAGPUR, Oct 27: The late Jawaharlal Darda Memorial Inter-district Cricket Tournament will take off at Yavatmal from November 1. The event...

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NAGPUR, Oct 27: The late Jawaharlal Darda Memorial Inter-district Cricket Tournament will take off at Yavatmal from November 1. The event will be held simultaneously in 6 divisions comprising 33 districts of the State.

Former India stars, Eknath Solkar and Sandeep Patil and State Sport Council member, V V Karmarkar will declare open the meet. The official spokesman of the tournament, Chakradhar Dalvi informed that the 29-day tourney will see 72 one-day matches of 35 overs each between the affiliated units of Vidarbha Cricket Association, Maharashtra Cricket Association and Mumbai Cricket Association. And for the first time Nagpur, Aurangabad, Mumbai and Pune districts may face each other.

The final leg of the tournament at Aurangabad has been sponsored by the electronics giants Videocon. The event promises a good show as the the first class cricketers and those on verge of making it to the big league will be seen in action.

Nagpur division matches will be conducted on local VRCE turf from Nov 5 to 8.Nagpur, Chandrapur, Wardha, Bhandara and Gadchiroli will take part.The divisional winner will get a cash prize of Rs 5,001, while runners-up will be richer by Rs 2,101. The man of the series will get Rs 501. The champions will receive Rs 15,001 and the Jawaharlal Darda Memorial Gold Trophy. The runners-up will get Rs 7,001. There are other individual prizes at stake.

The Schedule: Yavatmal: Nov 1-4 Akola, Buldhana, Amravati, Washim and Yavatmal Nagpur: Nov 5-8 Chandrapur, Gadchiroli, Wardha, Bhandara and Nagpur Jalgaon: Nov 9-11 Jalgaon, Dhule and Ahmedanagar Solapur: Nov 12-15 Solapur, Kolhapur, Sangli, Satara and Pune Mumbai: Nov 16-18 Mumbai A, Mumbai B, Thane, Ratnagiri, Sindhudurg and Raigadh Aurangabad: Nov 19-22 Aurangabad, Jalna, Usmanabad, Beed and Hingoli

 

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