GUWAHATI, Feb 25 - The Red Bull Campus Cricket for college has added two new cities to its roster and will witness the highest participation ever with 170 teams across 26 cities.
The Red Bull Campus Cricket city qualifiers will start from February 27 simultaneously in Cochin and Hyderabad followed by Kolkata, Mumbai, Baroda, Ahmedabad, Pune, Nagpur, Indore, Goa, Jalandhar, Delhi, Jaipur, Jammu, Dehradun, Chandigarh, Lucknow, Chennai, Bangalore, Coimbatore, Vizag, Kolkata, Guwahati, Ranchi, Bhubaneshwar, Patna, Jamshedpur.
The winning college from each city will proceed to the zonal finals. The top two teams from each zone will then compete in the national finals, where the teams will play in the knockout rounds of quarterfinals, semifinals and finals respectively. The National winner will then represent India in the Red Bull Campus Cricket World Series Championship 2017.
The past winners from India that have gone on to represent the country at the World Championships are Rizvi College, Mumbai; DAV College, Chandigarh; Swami Shraddhanand College, Delhi and MMC College, Pune.
The Red Bull Campus Cricket is the only global T20 cricket tournament for university cricket teams, serving as an international platform for young and budding cricketers to showcase their talent and hone their skills. The tournament is now in its sixth year, stated a release.