3’rd Season of STAENZ Premier League (SPL) happened on 18’th February 2024.
Every year STAENZ digital marketing academy organises a full day cricket tournament between students of the academy. This year, 12 teams participated in the tournament and a total of 23 matches were played.
More than 180 people attended the event offline at the turf. In this article, I will highlight some insights as well as share a glimpse from the tournament. Students are learning from all over India via online training program but STAENZ is also providing digital marketing course in Nashik via classroom program. STAENZ is also having another branch in Indirapuram, Ghaziabad. As STAENZ is having physical classroom digital marketing course in Nashik, we had this event in Nashik city itself.
Event Name – SPL 2024
Date – 18 Feb 2024
Venue – Inside Edge Turf, Makhmalabad Road, Nashik
Teams in SPL 2024
In total 12 teams participated in SPL 2024. Each team was having maximum 9 players with playing 8 including 2 girls per team.
Logo of each team was decided and designed by the respective team members.
As STAENZ is a digital marketing academy, all players are digital marketing and versed with logo designing.
Team members were greeted by the audience and then we all had a photoshoot with trophy. Everyone were wearing SPL 2024 T-shirt with STAENZ printed on their back. In white T-shirt the green colour turf was looking eye soothing.
Event started with National Anthem where all members stood in respect to the nation. After that, the umpires announced the first league match between CTA Sharks and Ad Avengers. Total 18 league matches were played where each team played 3 matches. League matches were of 5 overs each for both sides. Semi-finals and Final match were of 6 overs.
After the league matches, the top teams were Hashtag Haroes, Meta Mavericks, Social Falcons, Insta XI and Lead Lancers. Out of all these, the final match was between Meta Mavericks and Hashtag Heroes. In that crucial final match, Meta Mavericks won and got the SPL 2024 trophy.
Here are some pictures taken from SPL 2024.
15 Hours of cricket between 12 teams were played. In total 250+ sixes were hit on the day.
Some brilliant insights from SPL 2024.
As the insights are showing, total 23 matches were played and more than 2,600 runs were scored on the day. With 253 sixes and 123 fours, the turf became a hitting ground. Highest inning was of 108 runs scored by Meta Mavericks.
Some important points from SPL 2024 Insights & Reports,
- Total 23 matches with 46 innings
- 1,305 Balls were bowled and total 2,674 runs were scored
- 242 Extra Runs in Tournament
- Best Batting Partnership between Rushi Gandhi and Vikrant Chouhan for 100 runs off 31 balls
- Most valuable player with 214 runs was Vikrant Chouhan. He scored with a strike rate of 227.66
- Malay Shah took 8 wickets in 4 innings
- Shubham Amle dismissed 5 players in 4 matches with his fielding skill
- Fastest fifty was scored by Vinay Yadav on just 10 balls with 8 sixes and 1 four.
- Owaiz Memon scored 28 runs in 1 over with 4 sixes and 1 four.
- Out of 23 matches, 14 matches won by team batting first
Carrom, Lemon Race, Three-Legged Race and Plank
Apart from cricket, other activities were also part of the day. For girls, we organised Lemon Race and Three-Legged Race. The went crazy with these games being played in small breaks. We all enjoyed the games. Parallelly some students were playing carrom games too.
Excitement for SPL 2025
Overall it was a day full of fun, excitement and cricket. Like every year, students were already waiting for SPL 2024 and now are waiting for SPL 2025. At STAENZ we believe in overall development and learning, that’s why organising such sports event is part of our training and engagement program.
Let’s meet again next year at SPL 2025.