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Section of the guests listening to the speech Global Sports sponsors with Mohammad Azha- Nabeel Ahmed presenting the souvenir to
ruddin Mohammad Azharuddin
Mohammad Azharuddin with Team representatives Mohammad Azharuddin with Team India Blues Mohammad Azharuddin with representatives of
Pakistan Greens, Shahzad Ahmad and Arfeen representatives, Gourav Dhar and Gururaj Sulib- Team Canada Maple Leaf, Faisal Sultan and Afsar
Mustafa havi M. Ali
Cricket fans with Mohammad Azharuddin Dr. Mahmood Ali with Mohammad Azharuddin and Syed Zafarullah, a volunteer of GSI with
Sangeeta Bijlani Mohammad Azharuddin and Sangeeta Bijlani
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Issue Date: March 2007
Editor : Parvez Kalyani
Inauguration Dinner Pictures 2
Layout Planning
Parvez Kalyani
Shahid Ahmed Why Diversity Cricket Cup?, Sponsor’s Message 4
Contributing Writer
Scorecard (Game 1 and Game 2) 11
Shahid Ahmed
Interest in Cricket is growing rapidly in USA, Michigan has especially enjoyed the visit of
many International players in recent years. Some of the prominent names are Greg
Chappell, Wasim Akram, Larry Gomes, Srikanth Krishnaswamy, Chetan Chuhan, Moin Khan,
Waqar Younus, Raju Venkatapathi
Diversity Cop started in 2006 with four teams, Canada Maple Leaf, India Blues, Pakistan
Greens and USA Stars. Inauguration dinner of Diversity cup was attended by representatives
of all four teams, supporters and sponsors. Mohammad Azharuddin, former captain of India
and his wife Sangeeta Bijlani were the special guests. Global Sports would like to
acknowledge Nabeel Ahmed for managing Mohammad Azharuddin ‘s participation in the
Diversity Cup. Mohammad Azharuddin played for team India Blues.
Special kids camp was also organized where kids had a great opportunity to learn from
Mohammad Azharuddin, Aamir Khawaja and Shyam Mayasandra helped organize the kids
camp.
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Diversity Cup sponsor, Suresh Chand of Continental
Rehab receiving souvenir from Mohammad
Azharuddin, former captain of India during the
inauguration dinner.
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Diversity Cup sponsor, Rajeev Gandhi of SI
Mortgage receiving souvenir from Mohammad
Azharuddin, former captain of India during the
inauguration dinner.
E-mail info@Sistarmortgage.com
Global Sports Incorporated deeply appreciates the support from Rajeev Gandhi of SI
Mortgage. Diversity Cup 2006 in its inauguration year became a huge success due to the
sponsors like Rajeev Gandhi.
Global Sports Incorporated deeply appreciates the support from Jay Jah of Metro Therapy.
Diversity Cup 2006 in its inauguration year became a huge success due to the sponsors
like Jay Jah.
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Standing from left: Chandara Navaratnam(Manager), Kunal Sharma, Trevin Bastiampillai, Sukhjindar Rana(Co-captain), Nabeel
Ahmed, Sirius Nabeel, Mohammad Azharuddin, Bahadur Mangat, Neeraj Bhardwaj, Gavin Bastiampillai, Asad Khan
Sitting from left : Nasir Mumtaz, Saqib Sheikh, Amandeep Singh, Girish Sankar, Dakshesh Patel, Not in picture: Faisal Sultan
(Co-captain)
Standing from left: Karthik Ramaswami(Catain), Susheel Bhat(Manager), Satheesh Kesavan, Balaji Raghuraman, Pugal
Janardhanan, Gowtham Nedunuri, Mohammad Azharuddin, Harmit Juneja, Suraj Vijyakumar, Jagdish Sompalli, Kumar
Devineni
Sitting from left: Santosh Shrinivasan, Ram Ballal, Gururaj Sulibhavi, Gaurav Dhar, Ravi
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Collage half 1
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Collage half 2
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Standing from left: Arfeen Mustafa, Kamran Hafeez, Taimur Butt, Irfan Mahmood, Shahzad Ahmad , Raza Khan, Muhammad
Yousaf(Captain), Ashar Mehdi
Sitting from left : Kashif Javed, Nauman Iqbal, Shahid Malik, Mansab Butt
Standing from left: Gopi Rao, Nadeem Muqueem, Aamir Khawaja, Shekar Kadur, Rizwan-u-Zaman(guest), Mohammad
Azharuddin(Chief Guest), Satish Ketkar, Shahid Ahmed(Captain), Shyam Mayasandra, Sundar Sambandam , Mubarak
Patel, Suri Bala
Not in Picture: Lou Long(Manager), John Joseph, Balaji Kandaday, Sandeep Vijaywargiya, Chandan
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D iv e rs it y C up 2 0 0 6 - P a k is t a n G re e ns v s US A S t a rs - G a m e 1 D iv e rs it y C up 2 0 0 6 - C a na da M a ple Le a f s v s India B lue s - G a m e 2
Venue B lo o mer park, Ro chester Hills, M I Venue B elle Isle, Detro it, M I
Date 2-Sep-06 Date 2-Sep-06
Umpires Dr. A bdul Hai & Sankar Renganathan Umpires Gautum B ala & P arag Nimse
Result P akistan Greens wo n by 61runs Result Canada M aple Leaf wo n by 1wicket
P a k is t a n G re e ns India B lue s
Shahzad B b Sundar 4 Gururaj S c Sirus b Sukhjinder 0
Irfan M c A amir b Sundar 6 Gaurav D c Saqib b B ahadur 4
Taimur B c Shekar b Shahid 20 Harmit J c A sad b Saqib 3
M uhammad Y c Suri b Shahid 13 B alaji R c Girish b B ahadur 10
Nauman I RUN OUT Shahid/Jo hn 20 Karthik R run o ut Sukhjinder/A sad 25
Kashif J RUN OUT Shahid/Go pi 7 P ugal J st A sad b B ahadur 3
Kamran H b M ubarak 18 Santo sh S c A sad b Gevin 9
A rfeen M c Jo hn b M ubarak 4 Kumar D run o ut A sad/Gevin 0
Raza K b Go pi 3 P rasad C c& b Gevin 7
Shahid M NOT OUT 17 Satheesh K c Chandara b Gevin 2
M ansab B DNB 2 Gautham N NOT OUT 3
Extras 16 Extras 12
To tal (in 20 o vers) 138 fo r 9 do wn To tal (in 19.5 o vers) 78 all o ut
O M R W O M R W
Sundar S 4 0 11 2 Sukhjinder R 2 0 4 1
Suri B 2 0 20 0 Saqib S 3 0 11 1
Go pi R 4 0 29 1 B ahadur M 4 0 14 3
Sandeep V 3 0 30 0 Girish S 3 0 21 0
Gevin B 3.3 0 14 3
Shahid A 4 0 25 2
Chandara N 3 0 8 0
M ubarak P 3 0 19 2
C a na da M a ple Le a f
US A S t a rs
A sad K st Satheesh b Kumar 15
Shyam M c A rfeen b M uhammad 1
Kunal K c Satheesh b Santo sh 2
Jo hn J b Nauman 12
Girish S c Satheesh b Santo sh 3
Shekar K RUN OUT Shahid 2
Gevin B NOT OUT 29
Suri B RUN OUT A rfeen/M ansa 12
Trevin B st Satheesh b Kumar 0
Satish Ketkar b Kashif 3
Girish S c Harmit b Gaurav 5
Shahid A hmed retired hurt 11
Sukhjinder R c& b Gaurav 0
M ubarak P atel c Kamran b Kashif 10
Kunal S run o ut Santo sh 0
Sundar S c Irfan b Kashif 0
Saqib S ct Gautham b Gaurav 1
Go pi R b M ansab 2
B ahadur M c Kumar b P ugal 9
A amir K NOT OUT 2
Chandara N NOT OUT 1
Sandeep V retired hurt 0
Extras 14
Extras 8
To tal (in 19.2 o vers) 79 fo r 9 wickets
To tal (in 13.5 o vers) 77 all o ut
O M R W
O M R W Santo sh S 4 0 8 2
M uhammad Y 2 0 7 1 Kumar D 4 1 9 2
Nauman I 3 0 13 1 Gururaj S 4 0 15 0
Kashif J 4 1 15 3 P rasad C 1 0 9 0
M ansab B 2.5 0 26 1 Gaurav D 4 0 15 3
Irfan M 2 0 13 0 P ugal J 2 0 14 1
Karthik R 0.2 0 0 0
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Diversity Cup sponsor,
Naveed Ashraf of Pakistan
Association of America
receiving souvenir from
Mohammad Azharuddin,
former captain of India.
Global Sports Incorporated deeply appreciates the
support from Naveed Ashraf of Pakistan
Association of America . Diversity Cup 2006 in its
inauguration year became a huge success due to
the sponsors like Naveed Ashraf.
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Global Sports Incorporated deeply appreciates
the support from Muzammil Malik. Diversity Cup
2006 in its inauguration year became a huge
success due to the sponsors like Muzammil
Malik.
Global Sports Incorporated deeply appreciates the support from Shahid Tahir. Diversity Cup
2006 in its inauguration year became a huge success due to the sponsors like Shahid Tahir.
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Mohammad Azharuddin, gave valuable tips to kids in the coaching
camp held during the Diversity Cup 2007.
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Global Sports Inc. is thankful to all the people who contributed towards the success of Diversity
Recognition Cup 2006. Our special thanks to Nabeel Ahmed for enabling the participation of Mohammad Azha-
ruddin in Diversity Cup 2006. Given below are the names of our sponsors, special guests, key vol-
unteers, special contributors and an announcement about the diversity Cup 2007.
Teams Coordinators:
Key Volunteers:
Asad Sabir Ali Parvez Kalyani
Ephrim Bruno Shakeel Niazi
Lou Long Sharan Kalwani
Sponsors
Nabeel Ahmed
Mahmood Ali Shekar Kadur
Muhammad Sohail Suresh Chand
Sriram Chandramouli
Ahmed Rajeev Gandhi
Suraj VijayKumar
Mujahid Ali Shahid Tahir
Syed Zafarullah
Nasir Mumtaz Muzammil Malik
Jay Jha
Shahzad Ahmad
Diversity Cup 2007 will feature six teams, Canada Maple Leaf, India Blues, Pakistan Greens, Sri Lanka Lions,
USA Stars and West Indies Masters. Event will take place in August 2007.