This is unique a “World Cup” for cricket crazy players over 50 years of age to be held in South Africa from March 11 with the final to be played at Newland (Cape Town) on March 24. It may not be an ICC event, but apart from India, other countries taking are: Pakistan, England, South Africa, Wales, Namibia, Sri Lanka, Australia, Zimbabwe , New Zealand and Canada.
Ashwini Arora
The teams mostly comprise part-time players from the corporate world. Like in Indian team, there is Ashwani Arora, who quit his high profile corporate job four years back to his passion of playing cricket, which takes him to England for about five months in a year right from 2016 to trade his art of bowling chinaman. He is credited to have captured over 100 wickets .
Ashwani, who plays in Kent League mostly, was the second highest wicket taker in the Kent League this year. In one of the team selection matches, he bagged a hat-trick while having six wickets to his credit. Among others, there is Aadil Chagla, a doctor by profession from Bombay Gymkhana and Mayank Khandwala, former MCA committee member, who has often played for Cricket Club of India.
The India squad: Shailendra Singh (Captain), Parak Ananta, Ashwani Arora, Sanjay Beri, Verinder Boombla, Deepak Chadha, Aadil Chagla, Dilip Chavan, Thomas George, Mayank Khandwala, Iqbal Khan, PG Sunder, Preetinder Singh, Srikanth Satya, Pradeep Patel and Tusha Zaveri.