 Cricket for a cause
 'Score a Run and Save a Life' was the slogan of the Cancer Institute (WIA) Inter-Corporate softball cricket tournament conducted by the Friends of Cancer Institute in Chennai recently. It was inaugurated by film actor Jeeva. The tournament was conducted as a fund-raising event for the Adyar Cancer Institute, whereby the entry fee of Rs. 25,000 per team was contributed towards the Adyar Cancer Institute.
(Photograph caption: Actor Jeeva congratulates Captain R Ananth of Sundaram Finance for winning the toss while rival captain Veerappan of L&T and Dr Ganapathy Ramanan of the Cancer Institute look on).
The torunament was held on April 1 and 2, 2006, at the YMCA ground,
Nandanam, Chennai.
The participating teams for the year 2006 were - L&T ECC, Cairn Energy, E-Funds, Verizon, Satyam, Saint Gobain, Polaris, Sundaram Finance, Playboys - Tamil TV stars, Grundfos, Computer Associates, Times of India, Max New York Life, Cancer Institute, Quality Inn Sabari and Cognizant Technologies.
Each team got to play a minimum of 3 league matches and knock-out thereafter. The teams could celebrate every four and every sixer scored by their team by contributing Rs 100 for every 4 and Rs 200 for every 6 scored (optional).
R Rangaraj
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