T5 Cricket - Cricket League for Startup Folks

Jatin Chaudhary - Salesman @eChaiVentures l Good at managing WhatsApp groups n organizing high quality, large gatherings at low cost :-) l Observer l Fmr Global Shaper @WEF
Jatin Chaudhary
Salesman @eChaiVentures l Good at managing WhatsApp groups n organizing high quality, large gathe...

T5 Cricket League is an initiative by the eChai Ventures team to bring together startup folks over cricket leagues. 

T5 Cricket is certainly not the new format of Cricket.

Gully cricket has been a massive phenomenon in India and folks have been playing a similar format for ages. 

The founders of eChai Ventures met while playing cricket during engineering days. Cricket has been an integral part of the eChai Story. 

We've been playing box cricket with startup folks for many years. And recently we've started building Startup Sports Network to bring startup folks together over sports. We've added many sports formats and started many city chapters also. 

T5 Cricket League


T5 Cricket League will have company-owned teams or teams consisting of individual startup folks.

The typical format of T5 Cricket Leauge match will look like this:

- 5 overs per innings

- 5 Players per team.

- 1 Power Surge over per innings

Check out some super fun moments from T5 Cricket here.

Catches win Matches

https://youtu.be/MywNqqa2Kgw

This is minus two runs in T5 Cricket

https://youtu.be/1cHtAxU3qW0

This is 12 runs in T5 Cricket

https://youtu.be/HrRwfb6CNJU

This is 8 runs in T5 Cricket

https://youtu.be/gW2b-cDq3qI

You need to watch the ball even when you are not on strike

https://youtu.be/9_mDf_lSSCk

Stumping

https://youtu.be/JU1yTEUyNyk

When the openers do not get along well

https://youtu.be/7oG_fwYHo44

Strike rotate nahi karne ka badla

https://youtu.be/KoQBLGX9wfU

This is minus two runs in T5 Cricket

https://youtu.be/Ymc7Rf1YXP0

Out or Not Out?

https://youtu.be/9uUM1gkabKo

This is 16 runs in T5 Cricket

https://youtu.be/DK2nhDw4OWE

This is minus two runs in T5 Cricket

https://youtu.be/iEfpFMcMHZA

Caught and Bowled

https://youtu.be/6PSL6ls_qK8

Playing Football at T5 Cricket

https://youtu.be/lqIFgA-QlE0

The kind of efforts folks put in when they become the captain

https://youtu.be/46gdUchIQgE

This minus two runs rule is super fun if you can catch well

https://youtu.be/NSpe_nhgSaE

Bowled

https://youtu.be/PJX5u1sr6JY

Expectation Vs Reality

https://youtu.be/gvrDfp6gl3w


For any queries, you can send Whatsapp to Jatin Chaudhary, Co-Founder, eChai Ventures at +91 8238968939.




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