The Al Haramain 6th T20 Corporate Cricket tournament begins today (Friday) at Dhaka Residential Model School ground with the participation of 24 renowned corporate houses of the country.
Kazi Reazul Hoque, chairman of National Human Rights Commission, is expected to inaugurate the meet as the chief guest. Syed Sabbir Ahmed, executive director, Al Haramain Perfumes Bangladesh Limited and Zahid Hasan, executive director of Mercel and Walton Group will also be present there as the special guests.
Sponsored by Al Haramain Perfumes and organised by Udyachal Club, ASEMS will arrange the whole event by providing all the necessary logistics support. All the 24 teams, split into six group, will compete in the meet. The final match will be held on December 24.
Mercel is the cosponsor of the tournament and Green Delta Insurance is the Insurance partner while Gazi TV, Bangla Tribune, The Daily Jugantor, Dhaka FM 90.4, and Rising BD are the media partners of the meet.
Besides, Nescafe is beverage partner of the tournament.
The total budget of the tournament has been estimated at around Taka 32 lacs. The champions and runners-up teams will get Taka 1,00,000.00 and Taka 50,000.00 respectively as prize money while man of the match of each game will also be awarded with crest and gifts curtsey by sponsor Al Haramain Perfumes.
Private satellite channel Gazi TV will stream live telecast of the two semifinals and the final match of the tournament.
The participating teams are Grameenphone, IFIC Bank, Edison Group, IDLC, Nitol Motors, Bikroy Dot Com, Mercantile Bank Limited, Energypac Power, Beximco Pharma, Beximco Textile, Square Group, First Security Islami Bank, Bay Developments, Reliance Insurance, Green Delta Insurance, Alif Group, LM Ericson Bangladesh, NRB Commercial Bank, CNRS Bangladesh , Walton, Eastern University (Teachers and officials), ICDDRB, Confidence Group and Energypac Engineering.
