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<\/a>Organising team from the Dept. of Physical Education<\/p><\/div>\n
The Department of Physical Educational and Sports, Pondicherry University organised an inter-department cricket tournament, Power hitz\u201914, from 20 – 27 February, 2014. The tournament was unique in its own fashion as each team had to include at least two women team members. Each game had two innings of 10 overs each which was played out in a ‘T-10’ format. In each innings at least one over would have to be bowled by a woman team member.<\/span><\/p>\n A meeting with the captains of all the\u00a027 teams registered for the tournament was held on 18 February. On the same day the logo of Power hitz’14 was released by Prof. P K Subramaniam\u00a0 and Dr. M Elayaraja, of the Department of Physical Education and Sports. Later in the presence of all the captains the fixture of the tournament was decided through lottery and the rules and regulation of the tournament were explained. The tournament was played as a league cum knock out format. 35 matches were played between the 27 teams throughout the tournament, which was much higher than the 19 teams that played last year.<\/span><\/p>\n On 20 February, Pondicherry University witnessed the return of\u00a0Power hitz for a second time as it got green signaled by the chief guest, Prof. Dr. S Pannirselvame,\u00a0 the Dean of School of Humanities, in the presence of the faculty members of the Department of Physical Education and Sports. The chief guest inaugurated the tournament while facing the bowling of Prof. D Shakthignanavel, the Director of Sports and Head of the Department of Physical Education and Sports. “The bowling is good and the batting is better,” <\/i>the Director of Sports said.<\/span> The tournament went smoothly and 13 matches were completed in a day. All matches begun by 2.00 pm so that there would be minimum disturbance to the regular academic activities of the students.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Winners of the Power hits’14, BT Battlers with the trophy<\/p><\/div>\n The league stage finished on 22 February. At the end of it, Power hitz’14 was left with 9 teams which qualified from their respective groups.\u00a0 A quarter final qualifier was played between the Department of Statistics and the Department of Bio-informatics. The Department of Statistics were the victors thus entering the quarter finals.<\/span> In the quarter finals of Power hitz’14 as they had entered the knockout stage, all the 8 teams gave their everything. The four quarter finals took place o<\/span>n 25 February\u00a0<\/span>and finally 4 teams qualified for the semi finals namely, <\/span>BT Battlers<\/em> from MBA (Banking Technology), the defending champions, <\/span>Katrina<\/em> from MCA, <\/span>Mighty Managers<\/em> from MBA (Department of Management Studies), and <\/span>Wild Rangers<\/em> from Ecology and Environmental Sciences. Both semi finals were gripping till the last ball. In the first semi final,\u00a0<\/span>Wild Rangers <\/em> declared their victory in the last ball against <\/span>Katrina <\/em>and in second semi final\u00a0<\/span>BT Battlers<\/em> defeated <\/span>Mighty Managers<\/em> in the last ball and qualified for the final.<\/span> The final match of Power hitz’14 was played on 27 February. Finally\u00a0BT Battlers<\/em> got the championship of Power hitz\u201914 as they sent the last ball for an over-boundary, claiming the cup for their own.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/a>