the matches in the hot and

humid conditions.

GPL is not just about action

on the field, but off the field

was buzzing with activities as

well. The students had organ-

ized recreational events dur-

ing breaks, Kwik Stop – the in-

house convenience store had

arranged for refreshment and

snacks – a business model

developed by the students,

the first of its kind where the

entire process from procure-

ment to sale was taken care

by the students and the profit

generated was shared with the

management as well.

The GPL not only helps in

showcasing the cricketing

skills of the students but also

instrumental to students in

learning group dynamics, event management skills and

devising a business model for

the game of cricket.

We profusely thank Mr. S.P.

Selavaraj, the Chairman of

Gnanam School of Business

and Mr. S.P.S Arul doss, the

CEO of Gnanam School of

Business for extending their

unconditional support to

make this event a grand suc-

cess.

Mr. A. Vijay Stephen,

GPL Commissioner

Gnanam Premier League—the

cricketing extravaganza at GSB

was the brain child of our

beloved CEO, Mr. S.P.S. Arul

Doss. GPL as I had always

held is not just about the

game rather beyond it. Brand-

ing, Professionalism, Team

Play, Group Dynamics, Mer-

chandising and Marketing.

Nothing goes unrewarded

here. It unleashes, a week of

fun and frolic, mind boggling

feats on and off the pitch

amidst the cheer and chanting

of 100 vibrant students.

This year’s edition of GPL was

centered on the theme Cele-

brating Competitiveness

Collaboratively. GPL 2012

witnessed the game getting

structured, formal dress

codes, Regulations, Itinerary etc. In 2013, A revenue model

was introduced to facilitate

the students learn the financial

model of conducting an event.

It was in this year Auction was

successfully launched. So in

furtherance to this initiative in

2014 we ensured a platform

to celebrate competitiveness

in a collaborative way.

The exercise included identify-

ing all the activities associated

with the conduct of the event

and was allocated to all the

clubs. The club members had

to interact with other club

members to set and settle

things on track. This was in a

way to equip them with good

interpersonal skills and to

ensure knowledge transfer.

Shifting to the games per se.

GPL V stands out to be a scin-

tillating and entertaining event

until today. (As I am penning

down my thoughts with 2

more hours for the final.) GPL

V has had its own way of en-

tertainment, having seen equal

dosage of hard hitting, low

totals, last ball finishes, low

scoring matches, interesting

chases and few healthy argu-

ments on the field too. GPL V

will definitely go down in his-

tory for the first ever century

scored in this version of the

game; Mr. Sreejith of Titans

scored a 32 ball 100 to see off

the Spartans from Finals.

GPL as we are aware the en-

tire event is organized and co-ordinated by the girls of Be-

mans batch. I must appreciate

the grace and poise with

which they are executing the

work. Also my sincere grati-

tude to all the Team owners,

Club coordinators, Teaching ,

Non Teaching Staff, House

Maintenance Staff and student

friends for their unconditional

support they are rendering to

the GPL committee for mak-

ing this happen. A special

word of appreciation to our

Men’s residence Warden Mr.

Prasad (who is loved and

adored by the students as the

“Dickie Bird” of GSB) who

despite his health challenges

happily consented to umpire

Celebrating Competitiveness Collaboratively

Umpiring Experience

In this season the plays among

team went very well in terms

of true competition as high

scoring games. The task of

judging the run outs, stumping,

no ball, wide etc.., was well

received by the team which

showed tolerance and applause

right through the game. Many

umpiring decision were precise

and all the teams had an ex-

perience of it. This GPL was

quite enterprising to all the

concerned and was a sensation

in the GPL his-

tory so far, I felt

the best side was

winning.

Mr. P.N. Prasad,

Match Umpire

01 April 2014 Volume V, Issue I

The Highlights of

GPL V

Team Falcons are the

Champions of GPL V

Team Titans won the

Fair Play Award

GPL saw its first individ-ual century by Mr.

Sreejith

GPL Gossips in News-

letter format

Inside this issue:

Words from GPL

Coordinators

2

Team TITANS 2

Superstitions and

the GAME— A

Warrior’s Take

3

Team Falcons 3

Team

SPARTNAS

4

Team Emporia

Signing off

5

CEO’s Report 6

From the inauguration of GPL 5 to the final

ceremony, we not only had a whole contribu-

tion from every single club, but we could also

see synergic effect when all the clubs join to-

gether for this event. We learned Spirit de

Corpse in Principles of Management and that

happened in GPL5, we congratulate all the

clubs for their kind cooperation.

Every step undertaken to implement the game

is a management learning that as a B-school, GSB was able to inculcate into the students.

Apart from the fun there will be a sense of

leadership and teamwork mixed in the game of

cricket.

The girls of GSB took exclusive charge of or-

ganising the event. During the the match, there

was a running commentary and that was also

done by the female managers of GSB, the insti-

tute always aims to develop in the students a

sense of leadership at all times and in all events.

We would like to extend our sincere thanks to

CEO Mr. S. P. S. Arul Doss who initiated GPL

and also we express a sincere gratitude to GPL

commissioner Mr. A. Vijay Stephen CA who

played pivotal role in the conduct of GPL. We

also thank all the Team Owners, Brand Ambas-

sadors who whole heartedly supported their

teams through thick and thin.

R. Vedashri

J. Amali

GPL Coordinators

Words from the GPL Coordinators

Team TITANS

In the game of life, we never lose…. We either

win or learn…. And we are glad we’ve

learnt….

On a very personal note we, the team owners

sincerely appreciate the team TITANS and

their captain Mr. Sreejith for their unmatched

and undisputed TEAMWORK. It was not the

individual talents of our team that brought us

scores of victories during the tournament, but

the sheer TEAMWORK of every TITAN that made us shine as SUPERSTARS of the GPL

Season 5.

Special appreciations and thanks to the GPL

commissioner Mr. Vijay Stephen, his deputy

commissioners, the all-time umpire Mr. Prasad

and every individual who were part of the suc-

cess of this GPL Season 5

Dr. Gayathri

Mr. Richard Marcel

Team Owners

"It's easy to do anything in victory. But it's in

defeat that a man(sic) reveals himself", says

Floyd Patterson… and our boys,

TITANS revealed their best sportsmanship not

only during their victories but also during their

hard times.

TITANS were convinced that losing the match

may be heart-breaking; but losing one’s sense of

sportsmanship is a tragedy. Hence, the TITANS

made it sure to cling on the sense of sports-

manship till the end…

Because, it’s not winning or losing that counts;

what counts is how you play the game till the

end…. And our boys have proven it by securing

the most prestigious of all the awards: “The

Fair-play Award” which we believe is far more

precious than the championship.

What makes us feel proud of TITANS is that

we the TITANS got trained like champions,

won like champions and lost like champions…

and we know if you are undefeated, then you

are not fighting the right people and we were

truly glad to fight the finals with the right peo-

ple, the FALCONS.

“It's easy to do

anything in

victory. But it's

in defeat that a

man (sic)

reveals himself”

Page 2

The GPL

Coordinators,

both are

Emporians

TOGETHER

EVERYONE

ACHIEVES

MORE!

GPL has given tremendous learning's for all. It

is not only winning.

It is Team Work.

It is Unity.

It is Leadership.

It is Hard Work, which I have also personally

learnt. So remember all that these things could

do marvels in our lives.

ALL THE BEST

Mrs. Kavitha

Ms. Beena Joice

Mr. Manikandan

Team Owners

I am happy and proud to say that I am the team

owner of the winning team FALCONS. I extend

my profound thanks to GSB for providing me

this wonderful opportunity to be the team

owner. Congratulations from my bottom of the

heart to the team players. Good Spirit! United!

Awesome Leadership! I should say initial

matches we were on the winning pace but sud-

denly we had to see certain falls due to lack of co-ordination. These gave them the way to

understand where they lacked and why they

failed. Then they made their mind strong that

Falcons is going to own the final cup, started

playing with confidence and with full vibrant

spirit which made them travel to the successful

destination.

Superstitions and the GAME— A Warrior’s Take

Team Falcons

“The journey is

what brings us

happiness not

the

destination”

Page 3 Volume V, Issue I

The

Winning Team

of

GPL V

“A warrior

does not give

up what he

loves, he finds

the love in what

he does “

- Dan Millman

The Mysterious to the hilarious, a game of

cricket has all of these. We all have our own

little superstitions on what wins matches. You

may have the best team and in the best of form,

still there are some superstitions you do not

want to attempt breaking.

Hope we all have experienced situation where

we have insisted that someone remain seated

where they were during an on-going game be-

cause the Indian team was doing well and we lost a wicket when the person moved to drink

water? We try to sit in the exact same position

and place as the previous game in the belief

that it was lucky for the team? I’m sure every

obsessed sport lover has indulged in the canard

at some point in time.

Cricket offers lot of ground for superstition.

The most popular is the ‘Nelson’ or the

dreaded score of 111 and its multiples or, made

popular by the enigmatic umpire David Shep-

herd, just like our very own here at GSB?

Speaking of numerical superstitions, the Austra-

lians’ dislike for the Devil’s number – 13, is very

well known; this dislike even extends to the

number 87 which is 13 short of a 100. There

are many an examples from the world of

cricket and a cursory browsing of the World

Wide Web will through up.

I was witness to my team losing the first two

matches and I used it as an excuse to keep

myself away from the ground. But what can I

say, the ploy worked, we came so close to

making it to the finals. Soon we were the most

loathed team in GSB. Everyone wanted us to

lose. The titans dreaded meeting us in the fi-

nals. The Spartans and the Falcons would both

have a chance only if we lose. Witchcraft, voo-

doo, black magic or just telling others of your

superstitious belief, I don’t know what to

blame, but we lost that important match. My

superstitions did not work when I needed it the

most.

Is success achieved due to superstition or be-cause of the player’s forte? The answer is

pretty clear to an observer, but a little ambigu-

ous to my teammates. I just tell them “Catches

Win Matches”. You cannot drop two important

wickets like those in the league of a Yuvraj,

Kohli or Gayle and still fantasize winning when

you have a temperamental Sreesanth (You

know who?) bowling for you.

I just tell them; after all, it is just a game. Play

hard, but don’t lose sight of the CIA II that is

round the corner. There, no superstitions ever

work. Only preparation, especially OM.

Anyways, quoting Dan Milman, it is the journey

that brings us happiness and not the destination

and there is miles to go in this journey through

the MBA program. So the next milestone is just

ahead, not start Chanting Inventory Manage-

ment and Layout!

Dr. Jose Joy Thoppan

Mrs. Nafeesa

Team Owners

Though we were not able to make it to finals, I

am happy with our team’s performance. In our

team we have some good allrounders, bowlers

and batsman. But we had some misses and

problems in our field. Apart from that, rest all

the three teams played really well. I am so glad

with our team spirit and co-ordination. We

got nice support from our team owners Mr. S.

P. S. Arul Doss, Mr. Sankar Singh and Ms.

Noorunisha. CEO contributed very well both

with ball & bat. He was the real strength of our

team. I would like to thank all our supporters,

especially Brand Ambassadors. .

Mr. Balamurugan

Team Captain

Team SPARTNAS

Photo Gallery

XXX...

S.P.S. Arul Doss

CEO

Page 4

The Crowds

Favorite

who encouraged, motivate and guided us all

though the GPL. Once again we thank him.

We EMPORIANS conveying our best wishes

and thanks to all the teams, players, clubs, fac-

ulties and non teaching staffs who stood behind

the success of GPL 5.

Ms. Kripa Sajit

Editor-in-Chief, GPL-Gossips 2014

The marketing club of GSB-EMPORIA, had the

privilege to be a part of cricket tournament –

GPL, where the warlords where set for battle at

pitch and were sweating the strengths out for

the top championship trophy.

Emporia helped in setting the tournament roll-

ing by conducting the GPL Auction for the team

players. Emporia in a association with Finrostra,

Opera Jaguars, Laincarnate and Cyber Conquer-ors were successfully in conducting the auction

where the team owners were selected and then

auctions of the team was done, with whole-

hearted co-operation from the BEMANS batch

of GSB.

At this occasion we would like to thank our

Faculty co-coordinator Dr. Jose Joy Thoppan,

The Emporia GPL Awards 2014

Team Emporia Signing off

Page 5 Volume V, Issue I

Best Batsman

Best Bowler

Best

Wicketkeeper

Most Stunning

Catch

Best

Commentator

Fair play Award

TEAM TITANS

GNANAM SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

Trichy-Thanjavur Expressway Sengipatti

Thanjavur - 613402

Phone: 04362 221102 E-mail: jose.thoppan@gsb.co.in

Emporia, the Marketing Club of GSB, is active in the conduct of the GPL all

these years. We are actively involved in bringing out the GPL Gossips, the an-

nual news letter highlighting the cricketing fever at GSB. This year again, we have

come out with the issue for our readers to relive their memories and cherish it

to posterity

HAPPY READING!

TEAM EMPORIA

EMPORIA

player getting century is

marked as a record. Hope this

GPL in coming years will kin-

dle the interest of everybody

and will be looked upon high

and gets new form.

Congratulations for all the

players for your wonderful

team spirit and sportsmanship.

Signing of this season of GPL.

S.P.S. Arul Doss

CEO

GPL Season 5 was really an

awesome event this time.

Encouragingly, the dynamism

of GPL changes year by year.

Especially this Season 5 trig-

gered the spirit of sportsman-

ship among the players to a

higher level as well everybody

in GSB felt the pulse of cricket

as sport when his or her own

team played on the field.

Being an owner of the team

SPARTANS, gave me a won-

derful experience by playing

with my team mates. Strategy,

wonderful unity and awesome

coordination were existing.

All kind of expressions were

seen on the field not only by

players but also by the team

owners and others.

First ever in GPL history, a

CEO’s Report

Marketers Market

CEO making

his entry

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