User:Harry Premier League

Harry Premier League is a domestic cricket league which is held every year. The matches are of 20 overs per innings. It is an initiative taken by Harry Astronomical & Research Society (HARS) to provide a platform to the youngsters and professional player to showcase their talent and play with the best in the country.

HARS aims to create an environment for the players to grow their game and compete at the highest level. Through HPL will achieve new heights and by means of sports cricket we are promoting astronomy on a larger scale in society. To promote astronomy among the youth, HARS regularly organises cricket and various sports tournaments across India. These tournaments have witnessed highly enthusiastic participation from the community.

HARS has always put forth sports as an important activity for the youth and children. Sports is unbiased towards gender, caste or race and unites people while simultaneously improving their physical and mental health.

HPL Journey Harry Premier league cricket tournament was first held in Aligarh in the year 2009. A total of eight teams from Aligarh and the nearby districts participated in the tournament. The tournament comprised of three stages – pool matches, semi-final and final and saw tough competition among the teams. Black Hole Riders lifted the trophy of Season -1.

On the request of community members, HARS decided to conduct this cricket tournament every year. In the year 2010 ,The tournament witnessed the participation of 8 teams and was graced by the presence of Shri Mahender Chowdhary, MLA of Aligarh, who was the Chief Guest. The Black Hole Rider was declared winners of the tournament season -2. After the huge success of HPL-Season -2, HARS decided to take this tournament to other parts of Uttar Pradesh District in more competitive manner. HARS decided to launch another game format and decided to conduct Harry Champions Trophy, 50 over format. Harry champions trophy came into existence in the year 2011, and eight teams participated in the competition. The tournament was held in Bulandshahr district and a new team got the winner title. Team Titan Thunder became the Champion. After successful event of Harry Champions Trophy in the year 2011, HARS decided to conduct Harry Premier League Season-3 in the same district of Bulandshahr, Uttar Pradesh.

Harry Premier League Seson-3 was successfully held in the year 2012 in the Bulandshahr District of Uttar Pradesh, and U.F.O Bouncer emerged as a new champion. The tournament was extremely successful and got recognized all over Uttar Pradesh. In the year 2013 HARS decided to held Harry Champions Trophy once again which was a 50 over format game. Eight teams participated and PSG Striker lifted the trophy. The tournament was again a huge success.

Now a new journey begun and HARS decided to take this tournament to the National Capital Region. Harry Premier League-4 came into new shape by introducing Foreign Players. In the year 2014 the tournament took place and a new team Martian Bomber came as a Champion. HPL got international recognition but it was a disaster in terms of Financial term.

New season of HPL-5 was ready to launch. In the year 2015, another season of HPL-5 took place. The tournament was full of excitement but the final match was vanished due to rain. And we see the Joint winner. PSG Striker and Black Hole rider was declared the winners.

After 5 successful season of Harry premier league and two successful season of Harry Champions Trophy, HARS committee decided to stop further sports events due to lack of financial help. Player from all across India keep demanding of Harry Premier League tournament to organize every year. But committee was not in a position to conduct any more sports competition as it require huge capital. HARS was under pressure from his followers but HARS was actively working on financial goal. The wait was over and it took almost 2 years to crack down financial burden.

In the year 2018, HARS was able to manage Sponsors and the new budget of 10 million Rupees was kept for this tournament. HPL-6 was a huge success and Black Hole Rider lifted the trophy fourth time.