Eight corporates for Goa Super Sixes

MARGAO, SEPT 24
Eight leading corporate cricket teams across India will battle it out for the coveted ‘Goa Super Sixes’ 2010 title at Benaulim from tomorrow.
Players will comprise business leaders from the corporate world along with renowned personalities from bollywood, cricket, music and fashion teams – Future Group, Pinc Group, DB Realty, Provouge, XXX Energy Drink, Natjhat Pat, Abil Group and Percept Limited. Each team will be led by their respective leaders – Kishore Biyani, Gaurang Gandhi, Alok Agarwal, Nigam Patel, Sachin Joshi, Avinash Bhosle, Dilip Agarwal and Harindra Singh.
The exciting tournament has some unusual and entertaining rules.  Each game will be played between two teams of six players each and each team will get to play three matches and earn two points on each win. It will comprise of five overs per inning to be played with green MRI balls.
To give each player an opportunity to bat, the batsman must retire ‘not out’ on reaching a personal score of 31 runs, but may not retire before reaching 31. If five wickets fall before 5 overs are completed, the last remaining batsman will bat on with the 5th out batsman acting as a runner. Underarm bowling is completely prohibited.  Each team will comprise  two players between 30 and  40 and four players over the age of 40.
The unique corporate cricket property has been ideated, conceptualized and will be executed by PDM India, a Division of Percept Limited.
Harinder Singh, vice-chairman and managing director, Percept  Limited  said that the concept of Super Sixes is quite popular globally and the tournament  has already generated  a lot of popularity with corporates.