TANA AG FinTax Cricket Cup 2022 Grand Finale in Charlotte, NC

100 teams from across the nation, close to 20,000 Runs, close to 1500 cricket players and one Final winner!!! TANA AG FinTax Cricket Cup-2022 grand finale event in Charlotte, NC was a huge grand success. A perfect way to sum up all of the hard work, planning, and travels from the last 8months!!

TANA AG FinTax Cricket Cup was flagged off in Charlotte, NC and returned to Charlotte, NC for the Grand Finale after travelling across the nation. As everyone is aware we have structured this tournament in a way where we will be conducting cricket tournaments across all TANA Regions. I would like to thank all our TANA regional representatives for believing in the tournament and supporting it with their local teams.

I would like to recognize our TANA Appalachian Region Representative Nagamalleswara Panchumarthi garu for hosting the Kick-Off and Grand Finale of our TANA AG Cricket Cup-2022. Thank you for all your time and efforts, to conduct these events at a grand scale and setting the bar HIGH!

Kudos to all the teams that have won their regional finals and participated in the Grand Finale. Thank you for taking away from your personal life to participate in our grand Finale. I would like to congratulate our Winners of our first ever TANA’S AG FinTax Cricket Cup-2022:

Grand Finale Winners – Bindaaz Boys (Congratulations on winning handsome prize money and Trophy)
Grand Finale Runners Up – ICC (Congratulations on winning handsome prize money and Trophy)

I would like to congratulate all of the winning teams from all of our TANA regions. This is a huge satisfaction for all the folks that have sweat day/night and spent countless hours of their valuable time from your region.

Every successfully huge event will require a good amount of support and funding. I would like to thank our sponsor Anil Grandhi garu (AG FinTax) from bottom of my heart. Thank you for believing in our idea and making it a reality. Thank you for keeping up with the event from start to finish, your insights and tweaks have helped our event grow big right in front of our eyes! Hoping to work with you for our TANA’S AG FinTax Cricket Cup-2023!!! I would like to thank our TANA Media Coordinator Tagore Mallineni garu for introducing me to Anil Grandhi garu and pitching in a good word on behalf of the TANA and our tournament.

Huge thank you to all our sponsors who supported the tournament starting from city level, regional level and Grand finale! Thank you for supporting our TANA Regional Representatives and their teams to conduct a clean tournament in your cities and regions. Special mention to Movers.com (Vidya Garapati garu) for stepping in at the crucial time.

Grand Finale event – I would like to thank all our local Charlotte team and volunteers for spending your long weekend to make sure that the cricket event runs smoothly. Thank you VenkataRao Adusumilli garu, Sreedhar Pelluru garu, Santosh garu, Pranay garu, Naidu garu, Prashanth garu, Sudheer garu, Ranaganath garu, Raghu Vemuri garu, Sail Kilaru garu, Sunil Bathina garu, Ashwin Gurduru garu, Chandhu Batchu garu, Mani garu, Ramesh Alleni garu, Suresh Palishetty garu, Srinath garu, Karthik Mandava garu, Ravi Bijja garu, Surendra Vemuganti garu and all supporters. We have also seen a good number of our #TANANexGen kids show up and volunteered for the event as well – Sohan Vemugunta, Venkata Kota Hanishk Cherlamcherla and Shreyas Ploshetty.

As always thank you Anjaiah Chowdary Lavu garu (TANA President) for standing tall and supporting the idea since day 1. Thank you for always being open for new ideas and support all the way through. I really appreciate all your support when we hit roadblocks and hard times!

We are very grateful to our TANA leadership for stepping and supporting the event – TANA Foundation Chairman Venkata Yarlagadda garu, TANA Community Service Coordinator Raja Kasukurthi garu, TANA Ohio Valley Regional Representative Ravi Chandra Vadlamudi garu, TANA Membership service Srini Yalavarthi garu, TANA Women Empowerment Chair Madhuri Yeluri garu, and all TANA local leaders and TANA members for your unconditional support.

We also invited a special guest – D Shiva Kumar. Shiva Kumar got selected to play cricket for Team USA!!!! He hails from Charlotte, NC and its a proud moment for the city of Charlotte to see their own play cricket for their National Team and represent USA!!

Thank you to our awesome Anchor Shravya Manasa garu for keeping all entertained and involved into the tournament.

I would like to recognize all our TANA regional representatives for believing in our idea and taking up the event into their respective regions. Thank you Sateesh Kommana garu, Pradeep Kumar garu, Ravi Chandra Vadlamudi garu, Srinivas Vuyyuru garu, Dilip Musunuru garu, Ratna Prasad Gummadi garu and Nagamalleswara Panchumarthi garu for all your valuable time, commitment and hard work for making this a grand success. Hoping to work with y’all again in 2023!!!!

Core Team – Since day 1 you guys have been the heart of this tournament. Words can’t explain my gratitude towards your time and efforts that you have invested into the tournament from the last 6 months. All those meetings, rules, captain calls/meetings, scheduling, arranging all the needful for all the matches starting from city level to our grand finale…. Thank you Raj Yarlagadda garu, VenkataRao Adusumilli garu, Sreedhar Pelluru garu, Venu Chava garu, Rajesh CV garu, Venkat Bomma garu, Lokesh Naidu garu, Saleem Sheik garu, Yamuna Mannava garu, Mahesh Bollimuth garu, Harshad Reddy garu, Ravi Kumar Potla garu and all the members & supports for of your hard work and dedication! I would like to dedicate this tournament to you y’all!

Once again thank you all players, sponsors, volunteers, TANA Leadership, TANA local leaders and supporters for all of your support!!

Next big question – “WHAT IS NEXT?” Get ready for the TANA Cricket Cup – 2023.

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