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CONTENTS
A Message From The Vice-Mayor ……………..……...…………………………… 5
Event Management Team………………………..………………………………….. 6
Welcome Note From The CCA …………………..……………………………...… 7
Cricketing Norms ...…………...….……………………………………….…………. 9
T20 Is Killing Cricket? ….…..………….…………………………………...…….... 11
T20 Is Destroying Cricket …...…………………………………………………….. 12
Some Cricket Laughs! ……………………………………………………………... 14
Why I Like Cricket …………………...………………………………………………15
A Thank You Note from the CCA……………………………………..…………… 16
Secret Of My Cricketing …………...……………………………………….……… 17
Boosting My Cricketing Skills ………….………………………………………….. 17
So You Think You Can “Cricket” ……….…………………………………………. 18
The Spirit Of Cricket ………………….……………………………………………. 19
The Champions! ………………….………………………………………………… 20
Against All Odds! ………………...….…………....…………………………………21
The Rules Of Cricket ………………….…………………………………………… 22
Solution to the Crossword Puzzle…………………………………………...…… 22
Caught in Action…………………………………………….……...………...……. 23
Guess Who?.................................................................................................... 27
Magazine Concept & Design: Chanchal Sahai, Shiva Srivastava, Swapna Shintre
Publication Credit : California Cricket Academy
Cricket Festival Logo: Kinjal Buch
Cover Page Artwork: Vedanth Venkatachari VEDANTH
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We wish participants of Cricket Festival a Great Success!!
21267 Stevens Creek Blvd. Cupertino, CA 95014
(408) 255-0160
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Event Management
Management Team: Biju Kattuparambil,
Bharani Seshan, Kinjal Buch, Hemant Buch
Marketing Team: Yogen Kapadia, Hemant
Buch, Kinjal Buch, Anupam Sahai, Rajib Ar-
jun, Rajesh Sengamedu, Rajesh Srivastava,
Bharani Seshan, Biju Kattuparambil, Helen
Greys, Amritha Raghunathan, Rajeev Srini-
vasan, Ram Varadarajan, Bhumika Kapadia
Website & Social Media: Rajesh Bhat, Biju
Kattuparambil
Media Publication Team: Chanchal Sahai,
Shiva Srivastava, Swapna Shintre
Opening & Closing Ceremony: Nitin Buty,
Kanika Vora
Hospitality & Awards: Kinjal Buch
Logistics Team
Ground & Team Management: Pavan
Mullapudi, Balaji Venkatachari
Team Registration & Verification: Rajesh
Bhat, Poornima Bhat
Team Grouping & Scheduling: Bharani
Seshan, Biju Kattuparambil, Kinjal Buch
Tournament Rules/Review/Oversight
Committee: Biju Kattuparambil, Mihir Jari-
wala, Mahesh Urs, Yashodhan Deshpande,
Mahesh Vaghela, Balaji Venkatachari
Umpires & Scoring: Hemant Buch, Neeraj
Bhalla, Biju Nair
Disciplinary Committee: Hasu Patel, Biju
Kattuparambil, Sundar Ramakrishnan
Star Volunteers
Abraham Amirtharaj, Anshuman Shukla, Arsh
Buch, Atul Kamchetti, Bhavesh Patel, Devdeep
Kabiraj, Ganesh Amara, Gurvinder Singh, Har-
dik Bhalala, Kamal Karimanal, Kishore Sriniva-
san, Kshama Kanakoor, Madhavan Arunacha-
lam, Pavan Vithaladevaram, Pranav Pradhan,
Pranay Suri, Prateek Sonawala, Prem Jain,
Rajan Sood, Rajkumar Mishra, Rakhi Jain,
Roshan Varadarajan, Sanjib Goswami, Shefali
Bhalala, Vinay Khosla, Mahendra Patel, Vibhav
Altekar, Rohan Khasgiwala, Neil Tagare
** CCA Would specially like to thank those
volunteers whose names we may have
missed inadvertently due to oversight or
because they joined the team after the pub-
lication of this magazine. You know we are
forever grateful for your help!
Game Day SWAT Team
Biju Kattuparambil (408) 888 7693
Bharani Seshan (408) 656-6855
Hemant Buch (408) 203-3594
Balaji Venkatachari (408) 644-0299
Biju Nair (408) 768-1976
Twitter Updates: Biju Kattuparambil
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THANKS
Yashodhan Deshpande
Poornima Bhat
Balaji Venkatachari
Bharani Seshan
Anupam Sahai
Neeraj Bhalla
Kanika Vora
Mihir Jariwala
Arsh Buch
Yogen Kapadia
Pavan Mullapudi
Biju Nair
Shiva Srivastava
Chanchal Sahai
Rajib Arjun
Biju Kattuparambil
Nitin Buty
Swapna Shintre
Rajesh Bhat
Can you match the pictures on page 27
to the names given above?
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Welcome to the National Cricket Festival 2016! 2003 was a significant in the history of youth cricket in USA. That year, we founded California Cricket Academy with the primary goal of providing highest level of coaching to youth in the Bay area and providing a platform for them to be able to play competitive cricket at the highest level in USA. And now, as we complete 13 years of existence, we can proudly say that we have achieved both and are still striving to achieve more. This journey has been an extremely rewarding experience for us mainly because of unwavering support of many people in Cupertino and larger Bay area – Cupertino City Council, Cupertino Parks & Recreation Department, other Cricket leagues in the region and above all, hundreds of parents who have devoted thousands of hours of their valuable time in helping us promote this wonderful team sport just because of their passion for the game. CCA is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization and its survival and progress depend on donations. In our journey, we are fortunate to have financial support from several donors, some of them multiple times, who have contributed by way of sponsorships during last 13 years. We sincerely thank all of our Sponsors for making our dream come true. Our special thanks to Tech Mahindra and ThinkPalm Technologies, the Platinum Sponsors of this Cricket Festival. Cricket is the fastest growing sport in USA. There is tremendous talent here which can be groomed to play on international stage if we, as organizers, can provide proper training and infrastructure for their development. In coming years, CCA ’s dream is to create complete, dedicated, world class cricket facility in the Bay area and we look forward to working with the government agencies, private entities and the community and in making this dream a reality. We wish all participants of this festival a great success. Let the games begin!! Thanks, Kinjal & Hemant Buch Founders, CCA
10307 BRET AVENUE, CUPERTINO, CA 95014 PHONE: 408-777-9983
www.calcricket.org
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THANKS
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THANKS
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FIELDING POSITIONS
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A VISIT TO THE MECCA OF CRICKET, LORDS, UK, 2014 CCA U/12 TEAM
CAUGHT IN ACTION
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THE RULES OF CRICKET
You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that's in the side that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he's out. When they are all out, the side that's out comes in and the side that’s been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out.
When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in. There are two men called umpires who stay all out all the time and they decide when the men who are in are out.
When both sides have been in and all the men have been out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game!
Wishing CCA Great Success
in Hosting
California Cricket Festival.
Celebrating
Youth Cricket in America
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T20 is killing cricket. T20 is killing cricket?
By Nitin Deo
“Facebook is going to kill face-to- face meetings!” “Twitter is going to kill headline news!” “Internet is going to kill newspaper business! ” And “T20 is going to kill cricket!”
I am sure you have heard these. Now, allow me to turn these upside down.
“Facebook is enabling people to get in touch with long lost friends! ” “Twitter is bringing fresh news by the minute!” “Internet is connecting all dots across the globe! ” And “T20 is revitalizing interest in cricket! ”
Ladies and Gentlemen, we have to learn to move with the world. If we want our tra-ditions to be carried forward to the young generation, we must do whatever it takes for them to understand those traditions – explain to them in the language they understand. If using rotary phone and writing letters is the only way you want to keep in touch with the world, if only reading the news in printed newspaper the only way you want to stay informed, then my friend, you are sadly mistaken. By the time your communication reaches your friends and by the time you get the news, it would be already too old and uninteresting. Similarly, if the only way you want to pass on your religion – the game of Cricket – to the next generation is with long 5-day test cricket, then my friend even your own son or your daughter will prefer to stay home study (or pretend to study) instead of going to the ground for 5 days.
Cricket teaches physical discipline, team work, commitment, builds mental strength, teaches importance of focus on the job – while having loads of fun. If you don ’t shine while batting, you can do well in bowling. If you don ’t bowl well enough, you can be a stellar fielder. And none of these traits change whether it is a 5 -day game or 20-over 4-hour game.
If you don ’t agree, that’s fine. It just means that you don ’t want to adapt new things. It just means that you want to stay back in the 1900’s. But, don ’t worry. I will still play cricket with you – because I love the sport. I will see you on the ground for 5 days in a row, while you use your notebook and pen instead of laptop or smart phone; change in-to dhoti-kurta instead of jeans and t-shirt; walk home in your leather chappals instead of using a car; and enjoy your daal-chaaval on a thali sitting on the floor instead of hav-ing salad or chicken tikka, on a table! Together let ’s kill progress, let ’s kill comfort, let ’s kill enthusiasm – in the name of tradition! And let cricket die because the young gener-ation will not be interested in it.
Or we can embrace the new trend(s) while instilling the positives of this wonderful sport such as physical fitness, mental strength, team spirit, competitive yet fair behav-ior and most of all having fun playing cricket with our sons, daughters as well as fa-thers, uncles and aunts – and keeping up with CCA trend have good food while watch-ing or playing!
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T20 IS DESTROYING CRICKET By Naresh Sadasivan
T20 Cricket has turned cricket as we knew, on its head. If Kerry Packer brought us ODI with lights, colored clothing, white balls, and assured results, 20-20 cricket thirty years later has brought switch hits, sixes by the dozens, acrobatic fielding, cheerleaders, and after-game parties. Not all innovation has been to further the cause of cricket. T20 especially can be accused of pan-dering to the corporate elite, who see this abbreviated version of the game as a way to new rich-es.
Cricket as we so loved is being slowly but surely consigned to the trash-heap of history. And this new T20 format glorifies big hitting at the expense of the classic fight between bat and ball. Here are 3 reasons why T20 is destroying traditional cricket.
ILL #1: BOWLERS ARE DISPENSIBLE
While there are games where bowlers have played the upper hand, they are too few and far in-between. Rules are clearly stacked in favor of batsmen. Shorter boundaries, flatter decks, field restrictions, zero-margin- of-error wide & no-ball rules, free-hits are all put in place to only have testosterone-heavy batsmen entertain crowds with sixes every other ball. And bowlers have only 24 balls to prove their worth.
With more and more rich club-level and international T20 games being played each year, fast bowlers of the class of Brett Lee, Shoaib Akhtar, or Zak will slowly disappear. They trade their wares by beguiling batsmen with speed and swing, coaxing batsmen into making errors. A 24-ball format does not give them such luxury anymore. Instead, T20 is producing bowlers who bowl slow, slower, and slowest. Fast bowling will die a sure death as T20 gains prominence. Spin bowlers similarly ply their trade with sheer variation of flight and turn. Dead pitches and absent fielders in the deep means their game is up. They don’t have a role to play anymore. Mediocrity in bowling is the new norm.
ILL#2: CENTRALIZED POWER BY THE BIG THREE
India, Australia, and England today form an unholy alliance with sheer money power, with ICC obeying their diktats. IPL, Big Bash, and Natwest T20 make more money for these boards in one year than what the rest of world cricket makes across all formats. Granted, players are making more money, but it is being made at the cost of spreading the game to more nations. Conse-quently, Zimbabwe & Bangladesh do not get to play enough international games, and mar-ginal aspirants like Ireland, The Netherlands, Afghanistan, or Bermudas are effectively shut out. ICC does not spend enough money in sport development outside of the Big Three. Cricket will thus never become a true global sport like soccer or basketball.
ILL#3: PLAYER FATIGUE, POOR TEMPERAMENT
T20 encourages big hits. If test cricket tests batsmen for their temperament, technique, grit, and determination, T20 kills each of these qualities, sacrificing them at the altar of big hitting. This is reflected in the way test cricket is played these days. Most 5-day tests get over by the third day, and most batsmen, especially the heroes of the T20 format, are unable to reorient themselves for the longer format. And most end up being pathetic failures. Only the best are able to adapt.
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Against all odds!
Last summer, I had an amazing experience with my team from
California Cricket Academy (CCA). We were invited to play a tournament at
King’s College in Taunton, UK. CCA picked a motely crew of 12 players from our
league between the ages of 10 & 11 to represent the academy. I was given the
opportunity and the honor to lead this team under the capable guidance of
Coach Amit. Our team surpassed all expectations and went on to remain undefeated in the tour-
nament. There were some great performances from every member of our team. I did not do as
well as I would have liked to in batting, but I learnt a lot about teamwork and how important it is to
not be disappointed due to lack of personal achievements. I learnt the importance of patience
and concentration when playing long innings, while maintaining my focus and helping the team
win. I did this by keeping and fielding to the best of my ability and scoring some good stumpings
and runouts.
Winning the tournament against all odds was truly memorable. All the hard work that Coach
Amit and Bharani uncle, our team Manager, put in for us finally bore the ultimate fruit, the joys of
seeing us win. I sincerely hope we made them proud of us. Thank you CCA, for giving us the
platform and the opportunity to represent the academy. Also, a huge shout out to the parents
who accompanied us and cheered us all the way. Without your support and blessings we would
not have been able to achieve this feat and for that we are truly grateful. It was truly an honor and
a pleasure to lead this team. I would go to war for each and every one of the team members.
-- Rahul Jariwala
ORDER:
(Left to Right Standing)
RAHUL JARIWALA, ARNAV
KOTTAPALLY, KESHAV
BALAJI, ANISH DESHPANDE,
COACH AMIT BUCH, AMAN
RAO, VED PATEL, ROHITH
BHARANIDARAN
ORDER:
(Left to Right Kneeling )
HARIKRISHNAN NAIR, DAN-
IEL AMIRTHARAJ, ANUVRAT
SHUKLA, KANISH BHALLA,
AKSHAY SAHAI FIRST PLACE: Taunton U11 Inter County Championship
Hosted by King’s College, Somerset.
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2015 U/13 NWR Nationals
MVP & MAN OF THE MATCH ABHISHEK
KATTUPARAMBIL WITH BIJU NAIR,
THINKPALM TECHNOLOGIES
THE CHAMPIONS TEAM MEMBERS
ABHISHEK KAT-
TUPARAMBIL
AKHIL ARUNACHA-
LAM
AMAN RAO
HARIKRISHNAN NAIR
KANISH BHALLA
KESHAV BALAJI
PRATHAM KATARIA
RAHUL JARIWALA
RISHI ARJUN
ROHITH BHARA-
NIDARAN
SUPRAVO GOSWAMI
VED PATEL
VATSAL VAGHELA
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T20 IS DESTROYING CRICKET
If his were not enough, T20 league cricket takes a lot out of a cricketer. IPL for instance is a gruel-ing 50-day tournament, with 17 games packed into it, in dozens of locations. Players break down very often, some requiring several months to recoup, and many more retiring from the game earlier than normal. Vettori, McCallum, and even Dhoni to a large extent have their careers shortened due to the wear and tear caused by T20 leagues.
These are just a few big ticket issues that T20 has caused cricket in general. nT20 is killing good old traditional cricket in many, many more ways If we continue to fund T20 (and maybe even short-er formats in the future), kids will possibly never be able to witness the joy of another Brett Lee or Shoaib Akhtar steaming in with their 40-yard runup, and letting go a ball that whizzes past the ears of a batsman at 155kmph. Or watch a classic Dravid stonewall a Shane Warne on a treacherous Chennai turning track on Day 5 of a match.
ENJOY CRICKET. SAY NO TO T20.
!!! HOWZAT !!!
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!! IIlustrated by Harikrishnan Nair,
Anish Deshpande, Anuvrat Shukla !!
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The Spirit of Cricket
Cricket is a sport of honesty and integrity. When I stepped into
CCA, I was none of these things. But coaches like Dashrath and
Shrini shaped me right up. I loved to run and do other intensive ac-
tivities, so Cricket was just the sport for me. This particular sport
requires a fit body and calm mind. Coaches are the main building
blocks of brilliant players. At CCA, I also get the opportunity to dis-
cuss my feelings about cricket in thorough detail. I felt that after my
first game, I would become a star. It turns out, my dream did not
come true, and has yet to come true. Thankfully, I came up with a
new goal - to get better with every single game. That dream comes true now every time I
play a game of cricket. Every time I bowl a wide, or misfield a perfect ball, I slowly climb
the mountain of disbelief and frustration. But when I remember my dream, I fall off that
horrible mountain, and take the harder path…. the path of hope, and honesty, that is the
path I try to follow during practice or in a game. That is the path that CCA has taught me
to follow, and that is the path legends before us, such as our beloved Sachin Tendulkar
took. He must have climbed the mountain of frustration every once in a while, but then
would quickly have to switch gears. The spirit of cricket can guide a person to do good
and the only way to unlock your cricketing potential is to work hard with honesty and in-
tegrity.
— Mohnish Rana
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So You Think You Can “Cricket” ?
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WHY I LIKE CRICKET
Cricket is a game of glorious uncertainties. With introduction of T20 format it is much more in-
credible to predict the game’s outcome between two equally talented teams. In he year 2007, I
was 5 years old started playing and understanding the game. T20 India Vs Pakistan final attract-
ed me more towards the game. It is almost 10 years now I am learning and understanding the
game, every day I learn a new trick, new rule or come across a new scenario that makes me
more excited for the game.
It is a team sport, where I meet new friends and come across talented players. It also gives me
an opportunity to travel. To the contradiction though it is a team sport, there are individual icons
and legends who take the game to the next level. Adam Gilchrist of Australia is my role model.
The live experience at cricket is always fun. Huge crowd, colorful spectators, flood light stadi-
ums makes the game more attractive.
Cricket is a great leveler and like life it is circle. As a batsman one might have scored a double
ton or a bowler taken 10 wickets. When you play the next game one has to start from zero and
one can get out on zero. You come back to the same place where it all started. And then you
start respecting things even more when you return to that same place which perhaps you didn’t
do earlier.
Physical fitness and Leadership: The game of cricket involved physical activities for a long pe-
riod of time. It keeps the players healthy, strong and physically fit. The captain plays an im-
portant leadership role that is involved in selection, making decisions on the order of play (so
winning the toss and whether to bat first, the batting order), determining the strategy of the team
(the tactics that are employed) and making calls regarding when to change field placings. He al-
so makes bowling changes and generally seeks to influence and control the game. In order to
achieve all of these role requirements, the captain needs to be an effective leader, able to man-
manage all the different characters and personalities that make up their team. The captain also
needs to be able to inspire the team to follow them and in many cases look to lead from the
front. There is an old maxim that says “If you preach excellence but walk mediocrity, you are
nothing but a liar”.
— Sathyanarayana Venkatesan
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The California Cricket Academy extends its warmest
thanks and sincere appreciation, to the cities of Cupertino,
Milpitas, Fremont & San Jose, the entire team of volunteers
who stepped up in various capacities to make this happen,
all participating teams, their coaches and management, ac-
companying parents and family members, the CCA alumni
for their continued support, and the sponsors without whom
this event was not a possibility.
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How Tennis Boosted My Cricketing Skills
Cricket is a game of skill, strength and stamina. It challeng-es you in every way as a sportsman. So why do I say that Ten-nis boosted my cricketing skills? Well, in tennis you run a lot to get every ball to avoid losing the point. Similarly, running be-tween the wickets in a cricket match is critical for scoring runs. The process of making my shots more powerful in tennis helps my shots in cricket when I am batting. I train my shoulder and arm strength. Tennis also helps my fitness in cricket since we have to do lots of core exercises like planks, pushups, and sit-ups. In both games we run a lot which helps build up stamina, especially in cricket where you have to bowl, bat and field for a very long time. One extremely important thing tennis has helped me with is my focus and mental strength. This is be-cause in a tennis match, when you are down you can’t give up, and this has helped me in cricket to try and step up at the right time and be more consistent in batting and to do better under pressure. So I can say tennis has helped me improve my crick-et game in many areas. Cricket on the other hand teaches me the essential life skill of working as a team under challenging conditions. — Akshay Sahai
Track and Field is the Secret of my Cricketing
For the past three years, I have been running track competitively, along with playing cricket. This combination has led me to become a better cricketer. Track has helped me by improving the way I move on the field, how quickly I reach the ball, fielding near the boundaries, and running between the wickets. My training in track has improved my endurance, helping me play for many continuous overs on the cricket field. This has also prepared me mentally to play long matches with full intensity. Cricket selections require a series of fitness tests, and I am able to excel in this due to my extensive track training. The competitive-ness of the track world has pushed me to my limits and enabled me to reach my full potential athletical-ly. In track, majority of the hard work is done behind the scenes, and this work has led me to great heights in cricket as well.
— Harikrishnan Nair