9^th May Sunday 04:30 PM – Ground B – Chennai vs Koramangala

9^th May Sunday 04:40 PM – ground B – Mumbai vs Bangalore

10^th May Monday 04:40 PM – Ground B – Malabar vs Hyderabad

11^th May Tuesday 04:40 Pm – Ground B – Cochin vs Chennai

12^th May Wednesday 04:40 Pm – Ground B – Hyderabad vs Mumbai

13^th May Thursday 04:40 PM – Ground B – Bangalore vs Koramangala

14^th May Friday 04:40 PM – Ground B – Malabar vs Chennai

15^th May Saturday 04:40 PM – Ground B – Hyderabad vs Koramangala

16^th May Sunday 04:40 PM – ground B – Cochin vs Mumbai

17^th May Monday 04:40 PM – Ground B – Hyderabad vs Bangalore

18^th May Tuesday 04:40 PM – Ground B – Koramangala vs Mumbai

19^th May Wednesday 04:40 PM – Ground B – Cochin vs Malabar

20^th May Thursday 04:40 PM – Ground B – Hyderabad vs Chennai

21^st May Friday 04:40 PM – Ground B – Bangalore vs Malabar

24^th May Monday 04:40 PM – Ground B – Mumbai vs Chennai

25^th May Tuesday 04:40 PM – Ground B – Cochin vs Bangalore

26^th May Wednesday 04:40 PM – Ground B – Koramngala vs Malabar

27^th May Thursday 04:40 PM – Ground B – Bangalore vs Chennai

28^th May Friday 04:40 PM – Ground B – Cochin vs Koramnagala

published by JPL Commissioner Jino Joy.

This is a tentative lsit. The actual fixture will be  put up in the JPL Notice Board Soon

Winners: JPL Ever Rolling Shield and Rs. 3000 as prize Money

1^st Runners up: Rs. 1500 as prize money

2^nd Runners up: Rs. 750 as prize money

Special Prizes

Orange Cap

Purple Cap

Player of the Series

Most number of Boundaries

Most number of Catches in the tournament.

Best Girl Player of the Tournament.

Registration

Team registration

Rs. 1500 Registration Fee (in cash) – Non refundable.

Teams are to be registered before May 6^th Thursday by 5:00 PM.

During registration,

Team Name

Logo

List of Owners (Contact JPL organizers to know about list of faculty who are interested in buying teams and paying for the teams)

Team Manager (if any)

Captain

Vice- captain

Icon Player

-          Should be finalized and are to be registered with the JPL Organizers

-          If  two teams submit request to have team with the same city name

-          An auction will be arranged for the owners to get their favorite city.

-          A tentative list of 15 players also to be submitted by 6^th May, 7:30 PM by each team

-          Team without at least 12 players will be disqualified.

The player list will be put up on the mess notice board. Following which a 24 hour transfer/buying window will be opened. At the end of which an updated list will be put up upon which no changes are allowed during the season.

For the team registration of Rs. 1500 each team can have a maximum of 15 players.

However from the list of players who are not selected by any team even after closure of the transfer window players can be added to the teams. A maximum of 20 players allowed per team.

• JPL is organized,  governed and managed by the JPL Organizing Committee
• The flowing are the core team members
  • Jino Joy, Yatta Jeeson John, Murtuza Ghiza, Jarin N, Nitin Yashas
  • A representative  from each team (Owner/ Manger)
  • Out Door and Indoor Sports Secretaries
  • The decision of this committee will be final and binding.
  • N.B – JPL is conducted purely for fun. Please take it the true spirit of the game and have fun

Rules

-          10 over a side

-          9 + 1 players (An extra girl is allowed as the tenth player for every match. Teams may or may not use this option as they wish.)

-          Maximum of 5 players in the playing nine can be from a batch or category

-          At least 3 different categories should  be represented during each match by a team

The various categories are

MBBS 2006,

MBBS 2007,

MBBS 2008,

MBBS 2009,

PGs,

B.Sc,

Interns,

Doctors,

Staff

-          The fixtures will be put up on the notice board and no requests for any change what so ever will be entertained. In case of failure to report by a team (min 5 players) even after 20 mins from the scheduled time the match will be called off and the opposite team can appeal for a walk over.

-          After 10 mins for every minute of late reporting will attract a penalty of 1 run/minute in favour of the opposite team.

• Field Restriction – 2 overs, maximum of 2 players allowed outside the circle
• Bowling restriction – 2 overs per bowler
• Strictly no chucking allowed (Girls exempted)
• The decision of umpires on field is final.
• Ball used – Soft Tennis Ball
• Umpires should be contacted by the team managers in advance and are to arranged by them prior to the match.
• Other rules and amendments  if any will be announced  after discussions with the team captains and icon players of each team.

The details are expected to be out soon. Watch this space and Mess notice boards.

JPL Organizing Committee

Chairman: Jino Joy

Convener: Yatta Jeeson John

Representative of SEC 2010-11: M.Dhilip Andrew

JPL Control Board: Murtuza N G, Jarin N, Nitin Yashas, Pranit Raj

First match as it was in Season 1, will be played Hyderabad v/s Kochi on 18th Wednesday.

The Season 1 teams intrested in taking part in JPL Champions League may contact :- Yatta Jeeson John (2007) as soon as possible.

Following the huge success of Indian Premier League, the cricket fans of St. Johns launched a ‘rebel’ league (if Lalit Modi wishes to call it so) . the JOHNITE PREMIER LEAGUE (JPL)

Well, the 1^st ever match (better term – the inaugural match) was played today in St. johns Cricket Ground between the Kochin Kundans ( Mals have a reason to do this – ‘they don’t have a team in IPL’)

v/s the Bhagyanagar Bewaars (the Hyderabad based team)

In a closely contested duel Kochin Kundans just edged out Beewars by 5 runs and clinched the very first game of johnite Premier League.

Earlier winnig the toss, Bewaars Captian and Owner Jiya John (alias Jeeson John , 2007 Batch) decided to go out and field in the sun. Proving the captain right the bowlers managed to dismiss the key players of Kundans including the skipper Roshan valentine (2007) and opener Arun Jude (2005).

Even Kundans team owner Jino Joy (2007) had to come to crease and bat as he was running out of options. As Allwyn (07), Jino, Alex (Mess worker), Nitin (07) all walked back without making much contributions to the score board, the match clearly looked one sided

But the story changed when Maridas (07) and Davis stayed for the Last wicket and made a crucial partnership of 35 runs from 5overs. Kochin Kundans was bowled out at 58 with 1 ball remaining

Bewaars – defenitly stronger team on the paper came to the pitch with the hopes of an easy win. And their openers made it look so I should say. But a very disciplined effort from KK Skipper Roshan, Manoj (2008), Maridas and Nitin with the ball slowly snatched the game away from Beewars.

Though Rain intrupted the match at the 7^th over when Beewars just needed 17 runs of 18 balls with 2 wickets remaing, the umpires and the captians decided to come back to the ground and finish the game.

Maridas of KK bowled the 8^th over took a wicket and gave away 5 runs.

In the last over Beewars had to hit 7 of 6 balls. Skipper Roshan went for Alex (Mess worker).

Alex kept the captains faith. He finished Beewars by the 3^rd Delivery.

And yeas……. The Kochin Kundans won the inaugural match of JPL 2009.

The celebrations after the match I would tell was even more than any ICS match. Both teams and the spectators defenitly enjoyed the 1hr game.

May be cricket rules were not followed, may be the players didn’t even know how to hold the bat (eg:- the author of this article), but still….. it was fun, like any other Johnite Event. Would you believe people like Arun Jude (KK), Murtuza (BB) came despite the fact that they are having Surgery Internal Exams tommarow !!!! Yeah….. rightly described as “Johnite Spirit” (or may be something else)!!!!

Waiting for more players and teams to get involved.

Signing off…. Hoping that someone else will blog soon more about JPL 2009