NEW DELHI: The SC Advocate-On-Record Association has decided to organise the first SCAORA cricket premier league between CJI XI and SCAORA XI at Arun Jaitley stadium here on Sunday.
The SCAORA has recently launched its prestigious first ever 20 overs white ball limited cricket league exclusively for Advocate–On–Records (AORs).
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The Cricket League conceptualised seven cricket teams initially, for the current season 2025-26 promoted by senior advocates of the Supreme Court viz Damma Naidu, PB Suresh, Sajan Povayya, Devadutt Kamat, Buddy Ranganathan, Sitesh Mukherjee and Chinmoy Sharma, sources said.
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All the teams would be consisting exclusively of AORs and are proposed to be played under flood lights (day/night) with a white ball and colored clothing.
The Cricket League is to be launched with an inaugural match between a team comprising of the sitting Supreme Court Judges and High Court Judges (Judges XI) against SCAORA XI (consisting of AORs, Senior Advocates and also the DDCA President, Rohan Jaitley). This match would be played under floodlights at the Arun Jaitley Cricket Stadium in the evening on Sunday and would be telecast live also.
Special permission has been given for this match by the BCCI and the DDCA; and the ground facilities is incidentally being provided free for SCAORA.
"These sporting events like the Cricket League promises to be a welcome break to both the judges and the AORs from their usual serious work schedules and is a continuation of innovative events being introduced by the current SCAORA Executive Committee like holding an International Legal Conclave recently at Goa and the upcoming launch of an exclusive “SCAORA Chronicle” along with a proposed Lecture by a siting Supreme Court Judge at Bharat Mandapam in the month of March," SCAORA president Vipin Nair said.
The cricket initiative has been conceived by a core team of Vipin Nair (President), Amit Sharma (Vice-President), Nikhil Jain (Secretary) and Kaustabh Shukla (Asstt Secy).
