Media Release
Jubail, Feb 26: The spirit of cricket was very visble in all the teams, spectators and organizers at Al Falah ground, Jubail as the Hidayah Foundation organized HF CUP-2016. The tournament came to a close on a high note with a grand closing ceremony on Friday the February 19. A pool of guests witnessed the finals of the grand tournament. A total of 16 teams participated in the event out of which Amaco emerged champions defeating their arch rival Expertise by 8 wickets.
In the first semifinal, Amaco defeated SASP with the help of a fierce game from Niyaz. He scored 65 runs in just 23 balls to take the score to 93. SASP could not match it and surrendered to Amaco. The second semifinal had a nail-biting finish between Expertise and MISC. Batting first, Expertise scored 80 runs with the help of Zubair, who scored 21 runs from 8 balls. Chasing the total, MISC lost by just 1 run and the effort of Samad and Mustafa of MISC could not bring their team to victory.
In the final, Amaco won the toss and elected to field first. With accurate bowling, Amaco restricted Expertise to a total of 58 runs. Expertise kept loosing wickets at regular intervals.
Rameez of Amaco was declared Man of the finals for his performance with bat and ball. Atif of Amaco was declared best bowler for his accurate bowling. Niyaz of Amaco was declared the best batsman for his consistent performance throughout the tournament and was also judged the best wicket-keeper. James of Expertise was adjudged the best fielder. Zuber of Expertise was given the Man of the series award for his all round performance.
The final match was followed by a grand closing ceremony with the distinguished guests on stage. The dignitaries present included Zakariya Muzain, chairman of Hidayah Foundation, Khasim H K, founder chairman of Hidayah Foundation, Ismail Realtech, president Hidayah foundation, Jubail unit, Sheikh from Expertise, Ashpak from Expertise, Aboobacker Yennehole from Oil River Perfumes, Sharief Karkala president Hidayah Foundation Dammam unit, Hanif president of HF Riyadh unit, Saad Al Sahrani from SASCO, Mohammed Masood Al Khaldi from Deal Solutions Arabia Co Ltd , Mr. Althaf from Saad Al Qahtani , Mr. Sharief from White Stone, Nazeer from Al Batin, Shahid from Energia, Younus Manipal, Shahul Dammam, Abid from Gulf Column, Ashkaf from Plant Solutions. A huge crowd gathered at this high voltage ceremony which was wonderfully hosted by Mansoor with his good sense of humor along with Safwan and Sajid.
The high voltage closing ceremony started with Qiraat and welcome speech from Yunus Manipal. Zakariyah Muzain, chairman of Hidayah Foundation was felicitated by Sheikh of Expertise and Khasim B K, founder chairman of Hidayah Foundation was felicitated by Ismail Realtech. The sponsors of the HF Cup, Al Muzain, Expertise, Realtech, Amaco, Saqco and Oilriver were honored by with a memento of appreciation. Later Ismail Realtech President of HF, Jubail unit addressed the crowd. In his speech, he thanked all the sponsors and well-wishers for supporting the success of the tournament and briefed about the functioning and activities of Hidayah Foundation. He mentioned that Hidayah Foundation is mainly into studying a subject at grass root level and choosing effective methods to resolve them. He also told that HF is focusing on 5 areas of overall development namely food and basic necessities, health, education, self reliance, infrastructure. He mentioned the recently launched SNC (Special Need Center) at Kavalkatte Bantwal taluk. He ended by thanking the donors and requesting them to continue supporting HF for its noble cause.
Zakariya and Sheikh Expertise, Altaf Saqco, Ismail, awarded the Runner Up trophy to Expertise and the Winner trophy went to AMACO.
The bounty of prizes and perfumes were sponsored by Oil River Perfumes. The lucky raffle winners were awarded mega prizes like LED TV, refrigerator, oven and many more prizes. Asif Deals, vice president of HF Jubail unit gave the vote of thanks and thanked all the teams, donors, members and well-wishers. The programme concluded with dinner sponsored by Althaf of SAQCO.