It’s a league of its personal the place two former ministers of Mamata Banerjee Cupboard Partha Chatterjee and Jyotipriya Mallick are mentors of a cricket workforce and terror assault convicts Jamaluddin Naser and Aftab Ansari are gamers.
Yearly, Kolkata’s Presidency Jail organises a cricket event — Presidency Premier League (PPL) — a mini T20 championship, impressed by the Indian Premier League (IPL).
This yr, the event has turn out to be larger with 5 groups — ‘Mumbai Indians’, ‘Dawn Hyderabad’, ‘Kolkata Kings’, Royal Challengers’, and ‘Chennai Tremendous Kings’. Whereas the primary 4 groups comprise inmates, jail employees make up the fifth one — ‘Chennai Tremendous Kings’.
The primary match of this season’s PPL was held on November 22 between ‘Kolkata Kings’ and ‘Chennai Tremendous Kings’. ‘Kolkata Kings’ — mentored by job rip-off accused Sujay Krishna Bhadra, also referred to as ‘Kalighater Kaku’ — has “star gamers” like Kader Khan, the Park Avenue rape accused; Kunal Gupta, the decision centre rip-off accused; and Anisur Rehman, accused of killing TMC chief Kurban Shah in Panskura.
Nonetheless, jail employees, together with jailers, taking part in for ‘Chennai Tremendous Kings’ proved to be higher and defeated ‘Kolkata Kings’. Per week later, on November 29, ‘Mumbai Indians’ took on ‘Royal Challengers’.
Enjoying for ‘Mumbai Indians’, American Heart terror assault convicts Jamaluddin Naser and Aftab Ansari led the workforce to victory. Notably, Naser, Ansari and their workforce mentors — Partha Chatterjee and Jyotipriya Mallick — are housed within the excessive safety ‘Poila Baish’ cell block.
The alleged ‘kingpin’ of the Rose Valley chit fund rip-off, Gautam Kundu, is the mentor of ‘Dawn Hyderabad’.
“Yearly we organise cricket matches for inmates, however this winter yr we’re organising the event in a giant approach. The inmates, each undertrials and convicts, are participating. The matches are held from 2 pm to five pm beneath strict watch of jail guards and jail officers,” a senior jail official mentioned.
All of the 5 groups have their very own jersey and cricketing equipment. “There may be super enthusiasm among the many inmates. We now have additionally shaped a disciplinary committee, headed by the jail superintendent,” the official added.
With one-match-a-week schedule and round-robin league, the event is anticipated to proceed until January when the ultimate match will happen. Moreover the winner and runner-up trophies, the perfect participant, finest bowler, and finest batsman of the event may also be awarded.
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