Monday, November 7, 2011

Vivek Jaisimha to grace UAPL finals


Former Ranji player and coach _ Vivek Jaisimha _ will grace the finals and will hand over the trophy to the winners of the Uninor’s Aurora Premier Cricket League tournament being played at the Aurora’s Seethaiah Engineering College grounds. The final of the tournament will be played on Tuesday. A total 34 top engineering college teams are taking part in the tournament.

Vivek Jaisimha, is the elder son of legendary M L Jaisimha – a contemporary of Mansoor Ali Khan, Nawab of Pataudi. M L Jaisimha, played, led and even coached Hyderabad Ranji Trophy cricket team for many years. It was under the watchful eyes of M L Jaisimha sir, that Hyderabad has reached the finals of the Ranji Trophy cricket tournament last time. Vivek’s mother Jayanthi Jaisimha too hails from a family of cricketers and is granddaughter of cricketing legend _ C K Nayudu _ who served has India’s first Test captain. C K Nayudu along Ranjit Singhji and others are legends of Indian and World cricket.

Hailing from such a legendary family, Vivek Jaisimha who was born on March 18th, 1964 played 79 first-classes for Hyderabad and scored 4000 runs with 8 centuries and double ton to his credit.

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