Howzat! MPL4.0- Players’ Auction at Forum Fiza Mall on Sat Feb 17
Mangaluru: Cricket fever is once again invading Mangaluru- and the Mangalore Premier League 4.0 (MPL 4.0) is all set to take the cricket fans by storm from 20 March to 1 April 2018. Addressing the media persons during a press meet held at Mangalore Press Club, Mohammed Sirajuddin- Chairman of the MPL said, “Eagerly awaited player auction of Mangalore Premier League Cricket Tournament jointly organized by the Brand Vision Events, Mangaluru Occasional and Sea Bird Cricket Academy with the approval and guidance of Karnataka State Cricket Association will be held on Saturday 17th February at II Floor of Forum Fiza Mall.”
He further said, ” The auction process will be held in a professional way like IPL player auction. The list of first-class players, A, B, C category were finalized and already sent to the twelve team owners to feasible them to analyze the players, make strategic plan. The fourth version of Mangalore Premier League will be held from 20th March to 01st April 2018 at B.R.Ambedkar Cricket Stadium, NMPT, Mangaluru. In the auction every team has the purse of Rs.250000.00 to purchase the players in the bidding. Every team should have 17 players.The auction will be held at II floor of Forum Fiza mall, Pandeshwar, Mangalore from 2.30 p.m., and may continue till 7.30 p.m. The organizers have made arrangements for the live webcast of the auction process through www.facebook/channelonekarnataka/ and facebook.com/mplofficial.”
Also speaking during the Meet, Imthiaz – the Convener said, “The organizers have invited the VVIPs, players, Cricket lovers and all to attend the auction event. The 12 teams that will take part in the tournament are: Coastal Digest.com Mangalore, United Ullala, Bedra Bulls Moodabidri, Mangalore United, T4 Super Kings Valavoor, Wise Warriors, Ali Warriors, A.K. Sports Udupi, Karkala Gladiators, Maestro Titans, Team Elegant, and Classic Bantwal. There is a provision given to the owners to nominate Icon players and accordingly they have nominated these Players: Adithya Somanna (Coastal), Nischith Rao (United Ullala), Bharath Duri (Bedra), Akshaya Ballal (Mangalore United) Nehal Ullal (T4), Rahul Kotian (Wise), Rithesh Bhatkal (Ali Warriors), K.C. Cariappa (AK Sports), Nithin Mulki (Gladiators) Nehal D’souza (Maestro Titan), Manoj M (Elegant), and Arif Mukka (Classic)”
“The players are categorized into State players, A, B and C categories. These are in the State category players list: Pavan Deshpande, Sadik Kirmani, Kranthi Kumar, Praveen Dube, K.B. Pawan, Abdul Mazeed, Rakshth, Abhinav, Suchith, Siddarth, Gulecha, Amith Verma, Ravikumar, Padikkal, Zeeshan Ali, Devid, Vishwanath, Stalin Hoover, DikamshuNegi, Abrar, Akhil, Mohammed Taha, Shubhang, Kunain, Raju Bhatkal, Rohan Kadam, More, Naveen M.G., Vishakh, etc.” added Imthiyaz
Shashidhar Kodical of Sea Bird Cricket Academy, Balakrishna Parkala – Media in charge, and Safther Ali Shirva, Coordinator were also present during the press meet