Hello All
Here are some pictures from ACL (AKKA Cricket League) games on the weekend of June 26, 2010 that NJSCUA Umpire's; Shri Hari B & Deepak Katte officiated in.

Link to Pictures

http://ubhatt.photoshelter.com/gallery/AKKA-Cricket/G00009oVi0RzhAPo/0/19

http://picasaweb.google.com/kadlebele.santoshkumar/AKKAWKC2010ACLIInagurationInEdisonNJOnJune26th#

http://picasaweb.google.com/navaneethg/JKKVsJB?feat=email#

I'm proud to say that NJSCUA has been tasked to provide Umpires for this event and we are very happy to lend our services for this noble cause. The following Umpires from NJSCUA will be officiating in the coming days for ACL games;

- ShriHari Bindiganavale
- Gokul Chakravarthy
- Syed Ahmed
- Deepak Katte

Briefly about AKKA
AKKA (stands for ’Association of Kannada Kootas of America’) is a non-profit, Educational, Linguistic and Cultural Organization; incorporated under Non Profit Corporation act of the State of Florida, to integrate, coordinate, network and unite the activities of all Kannadigas and Kannada Kootas for promotion and preservation of Kannada language and culture in North America. AKKA’s constituent units include; Board of Trustees and Board of Directors from all the regions of U.S.A. and Canada.

NJ is hosting the AKKA World Conference in the long weekend of Sept 2010 and as part of that, several activities/programs are planned, some of them start early while others may start at a time closer to the conference but all if them will eventually culminate during the conference days.

ACL is one such activity that is planned, starting with its inaugural game(s) on June 26th, 2010 and culminating with the Semi-Finals and Finals on the Sept 2010 long weekend. In between, there will be several round-robin games played in and around Edison area. Plans are underway to invite well known sports celebrities from Karnataka for the conference, during the Semi-Finals and Finals.

Please stay tuned for further info on that or check out the ACL website - http://www.akkaonline.com/2010/ACL.shtml

Regards
-Deepak

Dear All,
Its a matter of great pride that ALL of the NJSCUA Umpire's currently enrolled in the training program have PASSED the USACUA Written Exams (Preliminary Level or Final Level) conducted in April 2010, and are now eligible to appear for the NEXT level of exam, giving us, NJSCUA, a 100% pass percentage.

The following NJSCUA Umpires' took the exams and succeeded in flying colors;
1) Deepak Katte
2) Shri Hari Bindiganavale
3) Chandrashekar R
4) Srinivas Chirra
5) Mihir Patel
6) SaiKumar Agaram
7) Bruce Gottschalk

I'm equally proud to say that one of our own NJSCUA Umpire stood FIRST by securing the highest marks amongst all of the 51 Umpires in various centers acorss the country who took the USACUA Final Written Exam. I'll leave the name of that individual for your own guess (which you are requested to keep it for yourself).

This is awesome NOT just for our League but also for cricket in NJ area in general.

On behalf of NJSCUA, Hearty Congratulations to all of the Umpires and best wishes for your preparation for the upcoming West Indies Board Final Written Exam, sometime in July 2010.

We wish to also thank Umpire Gokul for his help in getting the training here to NJ and also for his dedication and hard work, without which the training program for around 16 weekends would NOT have been possible. Thanks again Gokul.

I'm told that individual results will be mailed to each candidate as a matter of respect to someone's privacy. Also, I will let you know as soon as I hear anything about the West Indies Written FInal exam date.

Best Regards

Deepak Katte

Hello all,

Today is one of the historic days in the League's History due to the fact that we have successfully secured a "major" sponsorship deal in our hands!!!

Rarely does a weekend go by, during the cricket season in the USA, with no complaints about Umpires’ decisions or players’ conduct. All of that is a thing of past and WILL change in NJSCUA pretty soon.

As most of you know by now, NJSCUA is the non-profit body, striving continually for the interests of our members, cricket Players& Umpires, to continually develop and promote high-quality cricket & Umpiring, to establish and sustain NJSCUA as a prominent Cricket League and an symbol of Cricket in the area.

NJSCUA believes Quality Umpiring has been and continues to be one of the corner-stones on which the growth of NJSCUA and overall improvement in the standard of cricket hinges on.

TO this effect, NJSCUA is proud to be associated with an "anonymous" sponsor (name will be revealed later) and both organizations have teamed up with one common vision/goal, the betterment of Umpiring standards and our commitment to our members to provide better and well equipped/trained Umpires so that no team loses a game due to an Umpire's incompetence or Umpire's bias.

I'm particularly happy that our vision on investing on the Umpire's have been recognized and shared by someone who has come forward to help us out as well. I'm hoping this is just the beginning and there will be more such sponsorships on the way. :-)

As a part of this sponsorship commitment, NJSCUA will have to try its best and appoint 2 Umpire for each regular season games, in a way that teams will NOT be ADDITIONALLY burdened & to eliminate a batting team player to do the Striker's end duty. Teams will continue to pay ONLY for 1 Umpire (for all Regular Season games) but the expenses for other Umpire will be borne by the League.

This is also our way of saying thank you for participating in our League. :-)

Please join me in "generously" thanking this "generous" and "anonymous" sponsor.

Any questions, please let me know if you have any questions.

Regards

- Deepak

Hello Member Teams,
It gives me great pleasure to welcome you all for the 2nd edition of the NJSCUA T-20 Tournament, starting from Sunday, Sept 12, 2010 .

The Twenty20 format is key to our growth as a League in the area. We are very encouraged by the response we received last year with a total of 18 teams participating in our Inaugural T-20 tournament. We are again honored to have as many as 14 teams associated with us, in what is our biggest cricket tournament of the year. We hope that this tournament continues to serve as a catalyst in Cricket's growth in NJ area.

In its 2010 version as well, the Winners and Runners-up of the NJSCUA T20 will each get a trophy. There are no cash prizes, however there will be a surprise award that will be announced during the meeting. For the FINALS, there will also be prizes for the Best Batsman, Best Bowler, Best Fielder and the MVP. Also, each match will also have a “Man of the Match” adjudicated by the umpires and such players will get certificates.

We at NJSCUA will strive to make this 2nd edition, a well organized and a memorable tournament for everyone. We hope all of you will enjoy this very exciting and competitive format of cricket that is coming our way.

As a first step in that direction and in order to make sure that all the teams/Umpires are on the same page in terms of the NJSCUA T-20 rules, NJSCUA has organized a MANDATORY meeting of member clubs and Umpires on Friday, 8/27/10 at 6.30 pm SHARP, at ShriHari B's residence, located @ 32 Emily Rd, Manalapan NJ 07726.

Tentative agenda for the meeting would be as follows;
6.30 PM to 7 PM -> General assembly & Dinner
7.00 PM to 8.30 PM -> Meeting starts where Deepak will go over the T-20 rules.
8.30 PM to 9.00 PM -> Q & A
9.00 PM to 9.30 PM -> Distribution of Balls (to all teams) and League Logos (to the new teams...15 numbers will be given free to each new team and any extra logo needed is $2 PER LOGO.)

The league is taking so much pain to arrange/prepare for this meeting & the purpose of the meeting is many folded as below and it's importance will without a doubt bear fruits;
1) It gives an opportunity for the League to meet with teams and vice-versa
2) It gives an opportunity for the new/old teams to meet with each other
3) We need to hand over the balls to all the teams and logos to the newer teams.
4) More importantly, we need to go over the T-20 Rules with all the teams/umpires so that everyone is ideally on the same page.
5) It gives an opportunity for the teams to ask any question or seek any clarification with regards to the rules.

Due to space limitation, we would appreciate if ONLY one or a max of 2 representatives from each team make it to the meeting.

It is IMPERATIVE that at least one person from your team attends this meeting so long as they can effectively rely back the info to your team captain/entire team.

In addition to all of these, the 'Rules and Publication' page of the League website has been updated with the FINALIZED version of T-20 Rules and Game Summary, for the benefit of Teams and Umpire's alike. The intention of posting this 2 weeks in advance from the tournament start time is to establish a 'plain field' to all the teams and also give ample time for anyone to go through and seek clarification for any items.

At the meeting, food & beverages will be served to all attendees who may be driving directly from work.

One other important thing to note is that, the Roster FREEZES at 6 PM on 08/27/2010 and no more additions or player changes will be allowed after this time. This has also been communicated to all the teams well ahead of time.

Please feel free to contact me or any of the NJSCUA Executives with any questions or concerns you may have.

Once again, I welcome you all aboard.

Thank you
- Deepak Katte
732-762-9043

Shri Hari's HOME Address: 32 Emily Rd, Manalapan NJ - 07726. cell: 848-448-0660
Click here for the Map

(For GPS purposes plug in) 500 Englishtown Rd, Monroe, NJ
Click here for the Map (GPS)

- At the corner make right on to Connor rd,
- Follow the road to the stop sign, make left on Emily Rd.
- House is on the left before the stop sign.

The New Jersey State Cricket and Umpires’ Association (NJSCUA), New Jersey’s newest league, was founded in Feb-2009 by three individuals: Deepak Katte, Govind Itwaru and Syed Ahmed.

NJSCUA is a non–political, US Federal and New Jersey State registered non–profit 501 (c) (7) organization.

NJSCUA is on the verge of completing a very successful second season and looking forward to our second edition of T20 competition.

The inaugural T20 competition, held in 2009, had 18 teams participating in a race to the razzmatazz (i.e. the snazzy hardware the League had designed and secured for the winners).

One of NJSCUA’s permanent member clubs, Pak-AM CC (short for “Pakistani American” Cricket Club) had emerged the winners on that occasion, beating League rivals the Berbice Royals in an exciting Final Match (click on the link for the complete scorecard), played at the Naaman Williams Park in Franklin Park/ Somerset, New Jersey.

Here are some pictures and videos from the 2009 T20 Finals.

      

Winners:
In its 2010 version as well, the Winners and Runners-up of the NJSCUA T20 will each get a trophy. There are no cash prizes. For the FINALS, there will also be prizes for the Best Batsman, Best Bowler, Best Fielder and the MVP. Also, each match will also have a “Man of the Match” adjudicated by the umpires and such players will get certificates.

Participation:
Fully completed application forms along with a check for $350 (which includes a non-refundable fee of $275 and a refundable deposit of $75) made out to "NJSCUA" and a copy of ground permit (if interested teams are in possession of one) should be mailed over to the address mentioned in the application form, before the deadline of August 14th 2010.

Check here for the FAQ's about this tournament.
NJSCUA - T-20 Flyer & FAQ (.pdf)

The application form can be downloaded from http://NJSCUA.com ('Rules and Publication' option) or by clicking on the link below;
NJSCUA - T-20 Membership Application Form - 2010 & FAQ (.pdf)

This tournament is open for participation to any/every Cricketer/Teams in the Tri-State area & not just limited to NJ Cricketer's / Team's. We are encouraging teams to invite the best cricketers that they can access.

Teams and Format:
The league is looking to enlist anywhere between 12 to a max of 16 teams, on a "first come first served basis" for this tournament as that seems to be a “manageable” number for them, given the time, weather and ground limitations. An exact number will be known after the application deadline expires and the applicants are vetted by the League’s Executive.

The tournament shall be played with white cricket balls and league-approved color clothing (Non-White), with matching Batting and Keeping Pads (Non-White again) forming the essential clothing/equipment. Matches will primarily be held on Sundays and are being planned by the League organizers to last no more than 4 to 6 weeks from start to finish, with two T20 games played at each venue on each match day.

Grounds:
The grounds currently available to the league through their existing member teams/ clubs are listed on their website, http://NJSCUA.com

Hello All,

Firstly, I would like to thank all the umpires/sponsors/participants/volunteers/member teams from yesterday's game for organizing/helping and making this event an astounding success. The overwhelming majority indicated the future Season Inaugural games to be played along these lines.

I'm particularly proud of what I was told by various individuals associated with different Cricket Leagues in the area, who had come to witness the game. According to them, NJSCUA is "...raising the bar & setting a new benchmark..." for others to follow. This surely is reflective of all the planning & hard work, that has happened behind the scenes, that has been put together by individuals responsible for making this happen. Congratulations and hats off to those individuals responsible for making the event a grand success.

Please join me in congratulating both, the Winners of the game, Royals CC as well as the Runner-Up team, the President's XI. The game was played in true competitive spirit and Cricket was the ultimate winner on the day.

Here are the score card, pictures and videos from the game.
(Please view the Video from the YouTube website, by right clicking and selecting to view from you tube site or Click HERE for the PLAYLIST to view on the YouTube)

Inaugural Game Score Card (.pdf)

To listen to the audio, go to, www.ustream.com and search for 'Cricket Zone USA' or go to this URL directly
http://www.ustream.tv/discovery/live/all?q=cricket+zone+usa 

  

On this occasion, I specially wish to acknowledge the following individuals/organizations for making this event happen;

- Mr. Sirish Sharma (Element Technologies, NJ)
- NJSCUA Founders, NJSCUA Executive Committee, NJSCUA Member Teams, Umpires' & all of our volunteers.
- Cricket Zone USA (Thanks to Mr. Ravi Itwaru)
- Lenny and Carl (Commentary Team)
- Gymkhana Sports (Thanks to Syed Ahmed, Geeth Shah & Ronak Patel)
- Royale Cosmetics (Thanks to Mr. Balwanth Tulshi & for entire Royals CC)
- Mr. Thereon Blair (Royals CC for donating a Scoreboard to the League)
- Executive Shirt Laundry (Thanks to Mr. Sunil Singh, Royals CC)
- Landscape Management Co. (Thanks to Mr. Sunny, Royals CC supporter)
- Rita Dance Academy, NJ (Thanks to Ms. Rita Sharma)
- Niki Shah. (Planet CC)
- Dhoom FM (Thanks to Mr. Amarnath)
- Edison Cricket Club (Thanks to Mr. Atul Huckoo)
- Mr. Kumar T, (MCL President and our Website Admin, USA)
- Mr. Suhasa Rao,(our Website Admin, India)
- All others who have helped NJSCUA in any which way.

Once again, thank you all for helping out in making this game a grand success.

On behalf of everyone in the League

- Deepak Katte
President, NJSCUA

Batsmen	Team	Runs
Kathir Kuppan	Spartans	324
AASHUTOSH B BANKER	PlanetCC	320
Qayaam Farrouq	Royals	310
Joash Srigiri Shah	Spartans	306
RAJ PATEL	PlanetCC	275

Bowler	Team	Wickets
MRUDANG DESAI	PlanetCC	22
Theron Blair	Royals	21
Ronak Patel	Spartans	20
Deryck McDonald	Royals	19
Kumar Nandlall	Royals	18

PlayerName	Playerid	TeamName	TeamId	Runs
George Mathew	1723	PAK-AM CC	35	100
RAJ PATEL	2300	PlanetCC	50	97
Nirav Panchal	2388	PlanetCC	50	69
Waqas Shahid	1749	DynamicCC	51	68
Monty Birk	2398	Bergen	33	52

PlayerName	Playerid	TeamName	TeamId	Wickets
Khurshid Alam	2337	DynamicCC	51	3
MRUDANG DESAI	2295	PlanetCC	50	3
Jasjit Singh	1835	Bergen	33	3
Deryck McDonald	2392	Royals	34	3
Shreyas Bangale	2366	CFC	52	2
Adaalat Khan	2439	PAK-AM CC	35	2
Bharat Chava	2413	CFC	52	2
Monty Birk	2398	Bergen	33	2
Ashok Gangar	1825	Bergen	33	2
Mark Gomes	2211	Royals	34	2