BCCI to host National Corporate Trophy

Twelve corporate houses will fight each other for the Sahara BCCI Corporate Trophy

Twelve corporate houses will fight each other for the Sahara BCCI Corporate Trophy. With this National Inter-Corporate Trophy, BCCI hopes to give the best cricketers in the country a chance to showcase their skills. This 50-overs-a-side event, which began yesterday, will also help create employment opportunities for budding cricketers.

Cricket fever: MS Dhoni, Virendra Sehwag, Harbhajan Singh, Yuvraj Singh, Abhijit Sarkar (Sahara India Pariwar's Corporate Communications head) and Rahul Dravid at the launch of the Sahara BCCI Corporate Trophy.

"The BCCI has been at the forefront of the most revolutionary developments of the sport for the past two decades. We are proud to flag off what will be an eventful chapter in Indian cricket history," said BCCI president Shashank Manohar.

"Sahara has always promoted the cause of sports and its development. We are proud to have partnered the BCCI. This would take cricket onto greater heights of sporting excellence," said Subrata Roy, Sahara managing worker & Chairman, Sahara India Pariwar.u00a0

The tournament, which will end on September 8, will be played at four centres across the country Mohali, Bangalore, Dharmshala and Vishakhapatnam.

The winners will receive Rs 1 crore as prize money, while the runners-up will get Rs 50 lakh. The man of the series will pocket Rs 2 lakh, while a man of the match gets Rs 50,000.