The inaugural 'Hudson Cricket Cup tournament' (HCCT) concluded successfully at Greeley Park, NH on May 14th. 'Waltham XI' took the honor of being the HCCT 2011 champion by beating 'Nashua Nukes'. Total of 15 teams participated in this eight-a-side tournament played with hard tennis cricket balls, helping Hudson Cricket Club raise about $2800. Majority of the games were played at Greeley Park & few were played at Yudickky grounds. Both the venues are located in Nashua, New Hampshire.

Hudson Cricket Club will use the funds generated from this event to benefit 2 charity events. The first beneficiary is Vinod Kumar who needs a Bone marrow transplantation. More than 100+ drives were conducted for him by his well wishers and the drives are still on-going both in USA and India. More details can be found at www.savevinod.com. The second beneficiary is Boston Children's Hospital. A donation will be made to BCH in memory of Varun Kancharla. Varun (s/o Ram Kancharla) passed away recently due to complications arising out of Pneumonia.
 
All matches were played on the weekends (04/30 - 05/14) in a great fun environment while maintaining the competitive spirit. Although the second weekend was marred by brief interruptions of rain, all the games were conducted as scheduled which would not have been possible without the co-operation of the participating teams. The semifinals and the finals were played on May 14th. With a thrilling victory of 'Waltham XI' over 'Lowell Rockers' in Semi-finals of group 1 and 'Nashua Nukes' over 'Andover Cricket Club' in Group 2 made an exciting final between 'Waltham XI' and 'Nashua Nukes'. Target for 'Waltham XI' were 49 runs to win which was wrapped up by their key batsman Mayur (17 runs) and Gaurang (18 runs). Gaurang was adjudged the MVP of the finals and Mayur who scored over 100 runs in the tournament was adjudged the MVP of the tournament.
 
The finals were followed by the prize distribution ceremony at Greeley Park, Nashua. HCCT organizers distributed trophies to all winners, runner-up, umpires and the semi-finalist captains. Global Flavors, Nashua and Darshana Patel, CPA from Andover were the official sponsors of the HCCT tournament. Beverages & Refreshments for the tournament were provided by Global Flavors and Darshana Patel, CPA made a generous donation towards the charitable cause. Local Business establishments T-Bones and Hannaford passed on few Gift certficates to HCCT for this tournament.
 
Each team paid an entry fee of $120 towards this fund-raiser. Few friends Ashok Vantipalli, Prakash Venuthurupalli, Srinivas Cherukuri, Ravi Kommuri, Sridhar Dharani, Lakshma Eapur, Shakamuri Srinivas, Ram Kancharla, Srinivas Thunga, Veerender Makam & Kadhir Kanniyappan made generous donations to these 2 charities through HCCT as well. Some of these contributions from friends had a matching contribution from their company as well. Players and spectators appreciated HCCT commitment to the charity events, and they were all praise for organizers for carrying out the inaugural event with perfection.
 
HCCT Organizers (Kadhir, Ram, Vasu, Veerender & Shantanu) would like to thank all the teams and the spectators for making this event a grand success. More details regarding the tournament can be found at the
HCCT website:  http://hudsoncricket.web.officelive.com/default.aspx

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