UAE to take part in Masters Over 50s Cricket World Cup in South Africa

Fourteen of the top cricket playing nations and a few Associate members will soon be seen taking on each other in the Masters Over 50s Cricket World Cup in Cape Town, South Africa.

A team of senior cricketers from the UAE, which is being sponsored by Chandan Ahuja and Mili Ahuja of Falcon Eye Cyber Security, based in Dubai, are also ready to tackle the well-established tough teams in their group.

Syed Rafiullah who captained the Pakistan University team and who has participated in two of the previous Masters World Cup for Canada in 2018 and 2020, will be leading the Masters UAE team.

Supporting him will be some very famous and well-known players like Ali Akbar Rana and Vijay Mehra, who have also represented the UAE in the ICC World Cup tournament in 1994, whilst Khurram Khan was the skipper of the UAE side in the 2015 edition.

The other well-known members of this team who also have many first-class representations between them are Ambey Parwatkar, Biju Nair, Mohammad Shafique, Shahzad Ahmad, Tanvir Ghani, Narayanan Krishnan, Abhilash Devarajan, John Flory, Faisal Maqsood, Rehan Khan, Naveed Sehrai, Imran Qazmi, Asif Butt and Asad Rizvi complementing the squad.

At the capping ceremony held at Taj Dubai Downtown, Mili Ahuja, Founder and Director of Falcon Eye Cyber Security welcomed the distinguished dignitaries, celebrated guests, and the 18-member team embarking on their maiden journey for the IMCC Masters Over 50 Men’s World Cup in South Africa.

“It is our humble privilege to support the team from UAE in their attempt to bring the Masters World Cup home,” Mili said.

“I choose not to steal the thunder away from this fabulous group of people who are doing all that is necessary, bringing together folks from different countries and cultures in the true UAE spirit and exhibit the same in Cape Town. Kudos to the team of over 50s who have largely self-funded this maiden World Cup participation. This, I hear, is the third and the biggest Masters World Cup so far, with a total of 14 teams in two pools of seven each. Wishing this team the absolute best of luck from me and everyone at Falcon Eye Cyber Security,” she added.

Chandan Ahuja further added: “I have been a banker by profession and a cricketer by passion. I am sure everyone here has played some form of cricket in the past, some more competitive than others. A cricketer, in fact, a sportsman, never lives alone. He or she has their mates and friends that they play with; and compete against.