Wednesday, December 27, 2017

Cricketing Memories Over the Years 1982-1998

It's been a nice journey. I met many people thanks to cricket. Some winning teams from the years 1982 - 1998. I love the fact that we won all age groups for Hyderabad - Under 15, Under 19, Under 22, Under 25 (no pic), Buchi Babu, Subbiah Pillai, Ranji Trophy, South Zone varsities. There is a case there to say that almost the same bunch played all through. Among the zonal championships - Under 22 at Guwahati, Vizzy Trophy for All India Universities at Varanasi.

Equally special was winning the league championship for MCC with a bunch of party-loving guys and the odd tournament here and there. The one runners up I am proud of was making the final of the Inter Collegiate with the OUCCBM team - we had four or five cricketers and the rest consisted of two shuttle internationals, one taekwondo champion, one table tennis champion and several other large hearted gentlemen.

Hyderabad Under 15 team 1982 for the Pattabhiraman Trophy in Bangalore
Kishenlal Yadav, Sanjay, Vidyuth Jaisimha, D Srinivas, Prahlad, Masood, Abdullah, Vijay Kumar, Hari Mohan
Aijaz, Affeef, Chetan Joshi, Srinivas Chakravarthy, Muzaffar, Mallikarjun, Fazal Abbas 
Winner of the Pattabhiraman Trophy defeating Karnataka in the final
Seven of us went to play for South Zone - Masood, Vidyuth, Srinivas Chakravarthy, Chetan Joshi, Hari Mohan, Fazal Abbas, D Srinivas
South Zone team - Ramesh (TN), Randolf Carroll, Vijay Kumar, D. Srinivas, Viyuth Jaisimha, Hari Mohan, Boris Mascerenhas, Fazal Abbas, Srinivasu Maruvada
Sitting - Pavan Kumar N, Masood Ahmed, Thimappaiah, Harish Holla, Srinivasan (Manager), Srinivas Chakravarthy
Kneeling - Chetan Joshi, Harinarayana, Arjun Raja

Winners of the Under 19 South Zone Col C.K. Nayudu Trophy in Vizianagaram beating Karnataka in the final
Sanjay, D. Suresh, Hari Mohan, Ehtesham, Chalapathi (M), Abhijit Chatterjee, Abdul Rub, Vidyuth Jaisinha, Srinivas Chakravarthy
Siddhartha Basu, Satish, Venkatapathy Raju, D. Srinivas, Mujtaba Askari, Rajesh Yadav

Both teams - All Saints led by Azhar and Rest of Hyderabad led by Narasimha Rao
Kneeling l to r - Sunil Phillips, Meraj, Abrar, Noel, Ehtesham, Salamath, Masood, Clement, Siraj. Srinivas Chakravarthy, D. Suresh, Osman
Standing l to r - Manohar, Jyoti Shetty, Swaroop, Anon, Anon, Anon, Shivlal. Unknown, Eddie Aibara, Bro Joseph, Azhar, Vivek Jaisimha, Anon, Kanwaljit Singh, Narasimha Rao, Anil Mittal, Khalid Abdul Quayum, Arun Paul, Abdul Azeem, Viidyuth Jaismha  Hari Mohan and Arshad Ayub


All Saints Old Boys vs Rest of Hyderabad 1984- All Saints won a thriller
Azeem, Arshad Ayub, Vidyuth Jaisimha, Khalid, Azharuddin, Bro Joseph, Hari Mohan, Siraj Benjamin, Ehtesham, Osman
Clement Michael, Abrar, Srinivas Chakravarthy, D. Suresh, Venkatapathy Raju, Masood, Noel David
Hyderabad U 22 team winner of South Zone tournament at Bangalore beating Karnataka, 7 of us played for South Zone that year and we won the One Day trophy in Guwahati too
Masood, Rajesh Yadav, Hari Mohan, Vidyuth Jaisimha, Ehtesham, Chandran, D. Suresh, Jaideep Dhar, Swaroop, Abhijit Chatterjee, Srinivas Chakravarthy
Zakir Hussain, Vijay Kumar, Venkatapathy Raju, Abdul Rub, Mohd Affan 

Hyderabad Under 22 at Trichur, Runners up to Tamil Nadu 1984
Khaja Moinuddin, Vasant, Vivek Jaisimha, Kaleel Ul Haq, Dayanand, Hariprasad, Ehtesham, DTS Prasad, Hari Mohan, Asif,
Hafiz, Chetan Joshi, Ramana Murthy, Zakir Hussain, D. Suresh, Anwar 

Ranji Trophy team before the match at Tellicherry 1985-86
Anil Mittal, Rajesh Yadav, Kanwaljeet Singh, Hari Mohan, Arun Paul, Abdul Azeem,
Khalid, Narasimha Rao, Vijay Mohan Raj, Vivek Jaisimha, Vijay Paul
Venkatapathy Raju, Ehtesham, D. Suresh, Jai Kumar

Hyderabad team winners Buchi Babu tournament 1986-87
Hari Mohan, Vidyuth, Vijay Mohan Raj, Arun Paul, Vivk Jaisimha, Shivlal Yadav, Khalid, Arshad Ayub, Sitaram
D. Suresh, Rajesh Yadav, Swaroop,

Hyderabad Ranji Trophy team - Winners 1986-87 with the Chief Minister NT Rama Rao
Shivlal Yadav, Chetan Joshi, Vivek Jaisimha, Rajesh Yadav, Ramana, Ehtesham, Affan, Venkatapathy, Arshad, Arun Paul, Manohar, Swaroop, Hari Mohan
Narasimha Rao, Sri N.T. Rama Rao, P.S. Ram Mohan Rao

Osmania University Cricket team winners of the South Zone Under Universities championship after 10 years at Vishakhapatnam, my final year at the University
South Zone Universities before the Vizzy Trophy final at Varanasi - 1991
Hari Mohan, Deepak Kini (green jacket - captain), Madhu Kumar, Aravind, Akram Quadri, Srikanth Iyengar, Pavan Kumar
Kneeling - Rashid Mohsin, Rajesh Kamath, Hari Krishna, Hussain, Amit Pathak, Srinidhi, Vivekanand 

South and West Zone teams before the Vizzy Trophy final

South Zone Universities Cricket team, winners of the All India Vizzy Trophy,
Aravind, Srinidhi, Vivekanand, Madhu, Harikrishna, Rajesh Kamath, Srikanth Iyendar, Akram Quadri
Rashid Mohsin, Hari Mohan, Deepak Kini, Mr. P.R. Narayanaswami (Manager),Amit Pathak, Pavan Kumar 

Winners of the Arjun Memorial tournament, Lovely boy who died young in an accident, lots of good friends in the pic
Kumar, Timothy Paul, Vijji, X, Y, Bansi, Hari Mohan, Narsing Rao, B. Srinivas, Jagjit Singh,Raj Kumar,
Dinesh, Vijay, Chetan Anand, Sanjay, z, Satish Nelluri 

Osmania University College of Commerce and Business Management, Unlikely Runners up in the Inter Collegiate Ranga Reddy tournament
Hari Rao, Sunil J, Subban, Vivekanand, Pankaj, Sunnie, Ramanand,
Arjun, Prabhakar, Chandu, BGR, Srinivas Babu, Hari Mohan, Vijay

Marredpally Cricket Club, Winners of the A2 League Championships 1994
Chandrasekharan, Raju, Pavan, Sai Murlidhar, Yasin, Suri, Ram, Subbu
Raghavaiah, Raj Kumar, Vivek Jaisimha, M.L. Jaisimha, Hari Mohan, Sanjay, Srinivas Babu
Marredpally Cricket Club Winners of the A2 League Championship 1998
Yasin, Dinesh, Anil, Maheshwar, Raju, Sai, Chandra, Ganesh, Srinu
Subbu, Vidyuth, Hari Mohan, M.L. Jaisimha, Aravind Rao, Vivek Jaisimha
Suri, Swaroop, Rajan, Somayajulu, Anil, Pavan 
Missed a few - Subbaiah Pillai tournament, South Zone Under 22 and a few more interesting campaigns. Great fun. I had some critical contributions in most, small but important, which I will try and pen down next.

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