DreamCricket Fooglies Reunite for 2010 USA Independence TANA Cup 20/20

openingbat — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 02:30:00 GMT

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Fooglies in partnership with DreamCricket.com announced today that their team – the DreamCricket Fooglies, is one of the eight teams taking part in the Inaugural USA Independence TANA Cup 20/20 Cricket to be held in the Bay area, California from July 3rd-5th.

The TANA Cup 20/20 is being conducted by Northern California Cricket Association in the Bay Area.

Dreamcricket Fooglies team for TANA Cup 2010 comprises first class cricketers from major test playing countries, current Team USA cricketers and aspiring cricketers in U-19 and U-15 age groups. The Fooglies include -

James Crosswaite – Australian first-class cricketer
NC Aiyappa – Indian first-class cricketer and Royal Challengers Bangalore who won the first ever Scorpio Speedster challenge in India.
Sushil Nadkarni, Aditya Thyagarajan, Aditya Mishra – Current Team USA cricketers
Hammad Shahid - USA U-19 cricketer
Krish Goel – USA U-15 cricketer

About 5 years ago, a bunch of cricketers who happened to be friends off-field as well, formed the team ‘Fooglies.’ Back then, they played friendly fixtures and entered their team in several T20 tournaments. In 2007, Fooglies reunited as the DreamCricket Fooglies at the LA Open T20 where they reached the semis.

DreamCricket Fooglies comprises nine core players and several invited players. The team is managed and run by Arjun Thyagarajan and plans to participate in other tournaments around the country.

The team is looking forward to the contest and is excited about the prospects of the at the TANA Cup. “We have some highly talented cricketers and we are going to have a blast on and off the field. We have done well at the past LA Open and other T20 tournaments, but we never won it all. We expect to build on that performance, and win the TANA Cup this year,” Arjun Thyagarajan told DreamCricket.com.

“Fooglies come together for such tournaments for the cricketing and social aspect of it. For us, it is a weekend well spent. Competitive cricket during the day followed by post game social action!”

Speaking about the sponsors, he said “We would like to thank DreamCricket for sponsoring the ‘Fooglies’ for TANA Cup 2010. We chose DreamCricket as a partner because we believe in their motto - have fun, play well, never flinch!”

Kranthi Bayya, CEO of Dreamcricket.com, said her company was excited about supporting the Fooglies. “We appreciate the opportunity to reunite with the Fooglies. They are a high-energy team and they are going into this tournament with the right blend of talent and experience.”

DreamCricket Fooglies:

Sushil Nadkarni

Bat: Left Hand Top Order
Bowl: Right Arm Offie
Plays/Played For: USA, India U-19, Maharashtra

Aditya Misra

Bat: Right Hand Top Order
Bowl: Right Arm Leggie
Plays/Played For: USA, Atlantic Region, Karnataka

Aditya Thyagarajan

Bat: Right Hand Middle Order
Bowl: Right Arm Leggie
Plays/Played For: USA, SCCA, Hollywood CC, Karnataka, India U-19

James Crosswaite

Bat: Right Hand Middle Order
Wicketkeeper
Plays/Played For: Scotland, Australian Capital Territory, Australian Capital Territory U-19

Arjun Thyagarajan

Bat: Left Hand Top Order
Bowl: Right Arm Offie
Plays For: USA North West Region, NCCA, Santa Clara CC, Hollywood CC

NC Aiyappa

Bat: Right Hand Lower Order
Bowl: Right Arm Fast. Winner of 1st Scorpio Speedster contest in India clocking 137 KMPH.
Plays For: Royal Challengers Bangalore, Karnataka, SCCA, Hollywood CC, South Zone (Duleep Trophy and Deodhar Trophy

Sujesh Pulikkal (Captain)

Bat: Right Hand Lower Order
Bowl: Right Arm Leggies
Plays For: NCCA, Santa Clara CC, Hollywood CC

Ritesh Kadu

Bat: Right Hand Middle Order
Wicket Keeper
Plays For: USA South West Region, Vidharba, SCCA

Nikhil Iyer

Bat: Right Hand Middle Order
Bowl: Right Arm Offie
Plays For: SCCA, Hollywood CC

Vijay Beniwal

Bat: Right Hand Middle Order
Bowl: Right arm fast

Plays For: USA North West (Captain), Microsoft Blues, NWCL

Hammad Shahid

Bat: Right Hand Middle Order
Bowl: Right arm fast

Plays For: USA U-19

Mukun Rajan (Vidarbha U-19)

Samarth Shah (USA North West, USA reserve)

Tarun Bhoomi Reddy (USA South West, SCCA)

Mandeep Dhillon (Canada, Punjab, SWR)

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