The High Commission of India and the Suva Cricket Association hosted the fourth edition of the India-Fiji Twenty20 tournament at Albert Park last Saturday.<\/p>\n
The tournament aims to keep youths engaged in sport and away from criminal activities, including drugs. The competition final is scheduled for June 13.<\/p>\n
Speaking to SUNsports, Indian High Commissioner Suneet Mehta said the partnership with the Suva Cricket Association was focused on promoting a drug-free Fiji.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe theme for this competition is \u2018Bat healthy and bowl out drugs\u2019. The idea is to help keep Fiji drug-free and I\u2019m sure cricket can play an important role in keeping drugs out of the country,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Suva Cricket Association and Cricket Fiji board director Sumanta Rout said the tournament featured affiliated teams from around the country.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe teams participating in this competition are BSP, Cicia, CAF Warriors, Police, Army, Mace, Ono-I-Lau and Nasaqalau,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Rout also acknowledged the High Commission of India for partnering with the association through sport.<\/p>\n
\u201cI invite all cricket lovers, families, friends and the people of Fiji to come and support this cricket tournament,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Pools<\/p>\n
Pool A: BSP, Cicia, CAF Warriors, Police
Pool B: Army, Mace, Ono-I-Lau, Nasaqalau<\/p>\n
ResultsGround 1CAF Warriors beat Police by 104 runs after Police scored 103\/9 in 18 overs.Police beat Cicia by 57 runs after posting 211\/7.BSP beat Cicia after chasing 102 in 15 overs. Cicia scored 101\/9.Ground 2Army beat Nasaqalau by 127 runs in 16 overs.Mace beat Army after posting 139\/7, winning by 47 runs.Ono-I-Lau beat Nasaqalau by 112 runs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The High Commission of India and the Suva Cricket Association hosted the fourth edition of the India-Fiji Twenty20…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":692560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-692559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/692560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}