The 26th DVC All Valley Cricket tournament began here at Vivekanand cricket stadium of BTPS township on Tuesday.
The tournament will continue till January 22 and is being organised under CSR initiative of DVC in association with BTPS, Bokaro Thermal.
Seven cricket teams including BTPS, CTPS, MTPS, KTPS, Maithon Hydel, DSTPS and Panchet Hydel are participating in the tournament. During the inaugural day of the tournament, Kamlesh Kumar, Chief engineer and project head and Nikhil Kumar Chaudhay CE of BTPS-B jointly inaugurated the tournament in presence of P.K. Singh DGM, Dy CE B.K.
Mandal, Abhay Kumar Srivastava and other senior officials and representatives on the occasion interacted with the players and declared the tournament to begin.
According to APRO Ramesh Kumar, each match in the tournament will be knockout match only the winner will progress to next stage and emerge as champion.
The 20 over match will be played between KTPS and Maithon on Wednesday.