Biggest Tennis Ball Cricket Carnival ‘Arab Premier League 2016’ in UAE
UAE: After successful completion of UAE’S biggest bodybuilding championship ‘Mr International Indian’, Team Dubai Indians is happy to announce one of the biggest hard tennis ball cricket carnival Arab Premier League 2016. The tournament will be held under the aegis of Ajman Youth and Sports authority from October 11th to 14th at the Ajman Oval.
Cricket is the biggest entertainment nowadays and Gully cricket, which is played with hard tennis ball has become popular in India, Pakistan and GCC. Sachin Tendulkar, Yusuf Pathan, Irfan Pathan, Wasim Akram, Waqar Yunis all played this version of cricket during their teenage days.
UAE, a sports supporting nation which is witnessing more than 200 small scale league cricket tournaments in a year irrespective of temperature or humidity is played by cricket lovers every weekend.
Arab Premier League hard tennis ball cricket tournament stands unique with its huge prize money of AED 200,000/-. The participation of teams from 11 Asian countries including the 1st time ever team from Finland, a European country will be participating in the tournament.
Prize details
Winners – AED 111,111/- + Arab Premier League Title Trophy
Runner up – AED 50,000/- + Arab Premier League Trophy
Man of the Series AED 5000
Man of the match (every match) / Best Batsman / Best Bowler / Best Catch
This 4-day cricket tournament will be held in typical Indian desi style full of entertainment. Live Web Video streaming will be in www.tenniscricket.in and live scoring in famecrick.com. Separate family area and Kids play area and a Barbeque area will be available.
Afroz Asadi Chairman, Arab Premier League; Imran Khan Yermal, President Team Dubai Indians; Arif Khan, Incharge APL disciplinary Committee; Eusub Ansar, General Secretary Team Dubai; Abdul Rahman; Rameez Shiroor and Syed Saleem were present during the press meet.
Thank (imaginary) God, our joker Praveena Pinto doesn’t live in UAE!!! Otherwise, he would have spent entire weekend shopping for ‘biggest tennis ball’ to practice and get ready for this tournament!! LOL