What's New in Kanto

What's New - Season 2000

Hypocrisy, thy name is Malcolm Gray!

The ICC president has threatened that India will be financially penalised and even the Test status be suspended for refusing to go to Pakistan. Now consider this. During the 1996 World Cup, Australia had refused to go to Colombo to play Sri Lanka citing security reasons. The same Malcolm Gray was a member of the Australian Cricket Board at that time, who took the decision that affected a World Cup. Read more...
Date stamped: November 22, 2000

Kanto Cup awarded to Edogawa Falcons

Edogawa Falcons won the Kanto Cup by a walkover as their opponent Frinds XI could not muster a team on the scheduled final day. An anti-climax to the year-long tournament.
Date stamped: November 27, 2000

Friends defeat Tokyo Giants by 5 wickets to enter the Kanto Cup final

Tokyo Giants 74 all out. Friends 75/5. The final is scheduled for Nov. 26.
Date stamped: November 20, 2000

Engineers square Pacific Cup series 1-1

The Engineers defeated the Kytes by 20 runs to square the three match series 1-1. Final will be played on Nov. 29. Read match report
Date stamped: November 14, 2000

Edogawa Falcons the first finalists of Kanto Cup 2000

In an intense but low scoring match the Falcons defeated the Lalazar by 4 runs. Falcons 98 in 23.3 overs. Lalazar 95 in 25.4 overs. The match was conducted with the help of neutral umpires.
Date stamped: November 14, 2000

Cool Facts!

Did you know that Krish Srikkanth added an extra 'k' to his name so that it became nine letters ? Read why and more...
Date stamped: October 15, 2000

Kanto Cup enters the knock out stage

With all the league matches got over, it is the knock out stage now where only the best can prevail. The top 8 teams have been qualified for the quarter finals of the tournament. See details at Kanto Cup page
Date stamped: September 15, 2000

Pacific Cup 1st match postponed

The first match of the Pacific Cup that was scheduled to take place at Shizuoka on Sunday, March 26 has been postponed due to the incessant rains that left the ground in knee-deep waters. The new date will be announced very soon. This match, incidentally, was the Engineers' first match of the season.
Date stamped: March 25, 2000

Sheikh is back and so are the Falcons!

Sheikh has withdrawn his resignation unconditionally after some background negotiations among the committee members. The decision came more than a week after his dramatic resignation from the committee in which he was a member last year as well. With this, the crisis that was looming large over the competition has blown over, hopefully, for ever.
Date stamped: March 7, 2000

K.C.O.C in troubled waters

The Kanto Cup Organising Committee(KCOC) is in trouble following a division within the committee over the playing conditions to be adopted for the tournament with Nissar Sheikh announcing his resignation from the Committee and pulling his team out of the tournament. Watch this space for more updates...
Date stamped: February 25, 2000

Pacific Cup series

The Shizuoka Kytes and The Indian Engineers(IECC) will be playing a three match series - spanning the whole season - starting from 2000 season. This series has been named Pacific Cup which will be a rolling cup. The proposed annual seriess will be played in Shizuoka and the first match of the series is scheduled to take place on March 26th. Watch this space for updates...
Date stamped: January 18, 2000

Kanto Cup 2000

The first match of the Kanto Cup 2000 will be played on April 16 with the runners up of 1999 Friends XI taking on one time champion Lalazar Sports at the Edogawa ground and the YC & AC taking on the Shizuoka Kytes at Shizuoka. See the schedule for more details.

Kanto Cup 1999

The Sri Lankan Lions lead by Rohita Wijesekera defeated the Friends XI lead by Syed Amir Ali. Both teams hadn't lost a single match during the league level. It was exciting finish to the grand tournament.