By: BASHIR BHAT
Mehboob Ul Alam Sports established by involvement of local youth in three categories cricket, football and badminton.
The sports club is working to promote the sports culture and facilitate the players in taking part in sports events, encouraging youth to organize the events. The club firmly believes in quality sports, enhanced infrastructure, technical & skillful environment in order to have a world class approach.
Seeking a good relationship between business community and sports activities, the club has organized award functions at different occasions recently at Pulwama. Shabir Ahmad Shah, manager of the club awarded for his contribution in sports include J&K Football Association for “relentless support” as a committee member of Premier Football League 2021 held at Synthetic Turf TRC Srinagar.
First time that all the matches of the tournament were live on ANN news network. Manager awarded for “Say No to Drugs, Yes to Sports” in Downtown T20 Champions Trophy supported by J&K Sports Council at Gani Memorial Stadium.
Even during difficult times, when the entire population was confined to homes, the club organized badminton events in its locality. In view of attraction towards Cricket Mehboob ul Alam Sports club named its Cricket team as MACC Kashmir. Presently hundreds of players are associated with the club from districts of Ganderbal, Pulwama, Baramulla & Srinagar. MACC has its own social media platform having thousands of views and an inspiring outreach. The club also has a separate MACC Pulwama team and the said team has shown a good potential in the tournaments for a couple of years.
The purpose of the club is platform, few players of the club participated in trials of J&K Cricket Association held at SK Stadium Srinagar. Two players of the club were selected for Lieutenant Governors Rolling Trophy Cricket-2022 organized by J&K Youth Services & Sports and one player played for Chief Secretary XI cricket team Civil Secretariat.
From the last few years MACC Kashmir participated in the tournaments outside Kashmir such as All India Anmol Cricket Tournament Sujanpur Pathankote having national level exposure.
Earlier in the year 2021 MACC Kashmir bagged two runners trophies one at Turf surface Garoota Jammu another at Chocker Pattan Kashmir and winner trophy of Lajoora Pulwama.
Win or loss is a part of the game MACC believes in discipline, spirit, friendship and exposure besides keeping players physically & mentally sound.
December 2022 the club organizes a cricket tournament titled “Chinar Premier League” at Turf Surface of Country Inn Cricket Stadium Garoota Jammu in which sixteen teams participated across Kashmir and the final match of the tournament held at Moulana Azad Cricket Stadium Jammu in Day-Night T20 format. The teams participating in the tournament appreciated the management, umpiring skills and overall conduct of “Chinar Premier League” by Mehboob ul Alam Sports at Garoota Jammu. MACC believes in transparency hence live fixtures remain top priority of the club acknowledged by the people. It is in place to mention here that it was impossible for a single person to handle such a big responsibility but made possible by Team efforts of all players & management.