Unity Cup International Cricket Match at Prasanthi Nilayam

Sunday, December 30, 1997

Winning team captain Sachin Tendulkar with Sri Sathya Sai

 On this day, a One Day International Cricket Match, ‘Sri Sathya Sai Unity Cup Match’ between India XI and International XI, was played in the Sri Sathya Sai Hill View Stadium. This was a unique match played for the first time in the history of cricket. Air Chief Marshall N. C. Suri (Retd.) gave special training to the Institute students in March Past for the inaugural ceremony.

On this day, Bhagavan arrived at the stadium in His open car at 8.30 am led by the Institute students carrying the flags of 86 countries. Mr. I. K. Gujaral, the Prime Minister of India, hoisted the Sri Sathya Sai Unity Flag and Bhagavan lit the Unity Torch. [It had been predicted in the Shuka Nadi (ancient palm-leaf manuscripts written by Sage Shuka predicting major events of the future) that the world consciousness would move towards overall goodness after the Yuga-Avatar gets such a flag hoisted at the end of the year 1997.]

Sri Sathya Sai with I. K Gujaral (Prime Minister), Chandrababu Naidu (Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh) and Sunil Gavaskar (renowned Indian cricketer)

 Mr. Chandrababu Naidu, the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, Mr. J. H. Patel, Chief Minister of Karnataka and Mr. Lakshman Kadirgamar, Foreign Minister of Sri Lanka, were present on this occasion. Bhagavan witnessed the whole match. 

 At lunch session, a cultural programme was put up by the Sri Sathya Sai Primary School children. At the end of the match, Bhagavan presented a specially made big silver cups to the special invitees and players of both the teams. Mr. Hanif Mohammed, Mr. Clive Lloyd and Mr. Sunil Gavaskar spoke before the prize distribution. The exciting function came to a befitting close with Bhagavan awarding Sachin Tendulkar, the captain of the winning team India XI, the Sri Sathya Sai Unity Cup. The following day during morning Darshan, He presented a silver cup to Mr. Sunil Gavaskar also.

 Read a newspaper report dated 30.12.1997 on the match.

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12 comments:

  1. AnonymousWednesday, January 09, 2013 5:50:00 AM

    This article brings back the memory of the cricket match in my mind..........it was a pleasure to see how swami blessed Sachin..

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    1. UnknownThursday, January 31, 2013 11:07:00 AM

      It would be so kind of you brother if you can share more information about the events happened that day. How Swami enjoyed the cricket match and who scored from both teams and bowled well

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    2. Sathya Sai with StudentsWednesday, December 31, 2014 12:14:00 AM

      Dear Brother Sailesh,
      A newspaper report on the match which gives scores by various players has been added to the post.
      Regards
      SSwS Team

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  2. AnonymousTuesday, April 16, 2013 10:19:00 PM

    WHAT DID SWAMI SAY TO SACHIN

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  3. UnknownFriday, May 31, 2013 11:18:00 AM

    Continue to be a good human being. My Blessings are always with you.

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  4. Deepu'sFriday, March 07, 2014 4:05:00 PM

    Would like to see many snaps of this event.

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  5. npukukFriday, June 30, 2017 2:15:00 PM

    i was there..watching from the water tank on top of the kulparuksha tree hill

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  6. MS.KRANTIThursday, August 31, 2017 4:17:00 PM

    I was near by the Anjaneya statue.. Great feeling..

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  7. RaviSaturday, December 30, 2017 7:19:00 PM

    We were mentored by Errapalli Prasanna and were assigned to him to take care of the pitch, on the day of the game we were ball boys sitting around the ground.

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  8. UnknownSunday, November 18, 2018 4:04:00 PM

    I was 10 yrs old that time. But my father saw that match during celebration of christmas day when he reached puttaparrhi. Now my father nor bhagwan is not alive now.

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  9. englishmurthyThursday, December 06, 2018 10:09:00 PM

    Om Sai Ram
    This is real equality....

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  10. UnknownWednesday, February 20, 2019 6:50:00 PM

    I was in my 9/10 the std. I watched the match from the stands.

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