Encouraging Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav mega Cricket Tournament commenced at Poonch.

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POONCH AUGUST 02:– A Cricket Tournament promoting Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav 2023 commenced in the
Sports Satdium Poonch on today.

The tournament was inaugurated by Deputy Commissioner Poonch Yasin Choudhary (IAS) in presence of Col. Manish Rana Deputy Commander 93 Inf. Brigade and other prominent were Nirdosh
Kumar IC Manager Sports Stadium Poonch, Prem Prakash Luthra Retd DYSSO, Narjeet Singh Retd ZPEO and all the ZPEO’s, PEL, PEM, PET, REK, NYC and staff of District unit of J&K Sports Council Poonch also present on the occasion.

Irst of this kind tournament got off to a spectacular start with the pledge. A total of 11 teams are participating representing 11 zones of District Poonch.

While speaking to the gathering Deputy Commissioner Poonch applauds the efforts of Department of Youth
Services and Sports Poonch for organising such a big event in shorter period of time. He also adviced the players to work hard and must focused on academic as well and requested the players to keep them
selves away from drug menace and other anti social activities and also assured his full support and cooperation for providing such platform in future for the youth to showcase their talent.

Prize distribuition ceremony will be held on 15th of August 2023 Celebratioin Prade at Sports Stadium Poonch.
The inaugural match of AKAM 2023 Cricket Tournament was played between Mandi Zone and Kanuyian Zone and which was won by Kanuyian Zone.
Earlier toss was won by Mandi Zone and scored 77/10 in stipulated overs Mustaq and Nushad scored 17 &16 runs for Zone Kanuyian Raja Shafiq took 4 wickets. Zone Kanuyian chased the target in 6.4 overs.
Javed remained the top scorer with 44 runs. Raja Shafiq was adjudged man of the match.
The Match was officiated by technical panel comprises of Gurwinder Singh PET, Aman Sharma REK, Manzoor  Ahmed REK and Amandeep Sharma Online scorer.
Tournament is being organised by District Administration Poonch under the patronage of Yasin Mohd
Choudhary (IAS) in collaboration with Department of Youth Services and Sports, Poonch supervised by Mohd Qasim DYSSO, Poonch ,Vijay Kumar PEM conducted the opening ceremony and tournament was technicallysupervised by Pawan Kumar PEL, Convener Technical Committee and Perviaz Ahmed Malik Afridi REK venu incharge and convener Ground
Maintenance committee.