Mysuru: District officials including the Deputy Commissioner and the City Police Commissioner donned a different role this morning with all of them padded up for a cricket encounter at the Srikanta Datta Narasimharaja Wadiyar (SDNRW) Ground at Manasagangothri. Today being a second Saturday, officials made the most of their day-off competing against each other in a friendly T20 match between Deputy Commissioner’s XI and Police Commissioner’s XI. The Police team emerged victorious by one run in D/L method. The match was inaugurated by IGP (Southern Range) Vipul Kumar by wielding a bat. Later, Deputy Commissioner D. Randeep and Police Commissioner Dr. A. Subramanyeshwara Rao introduced their respective teams to Vipul Kumar. Vipul Kumar said that it was a good development to see the officials coming together to play a cricket match. Later, DC D. Randeep said that the officials had a week-long practice specially for the match. He added that District Administration was thinking of organising more such matches. Police Commissioner Subramanyeshwara Rao, who was padded-up to open the batting for his side, said it was good initiative taken by the officials to organise such a tournament and added that the officials can also talk about the upcoming events like Dasara before taking up the matter officially.
