93. 5 Red FM organises a friendly cricket match with SunRisers Hyderabad players
by Kanika Mehta Entertainment | May 15, 2015 | News
93.5 Red FM
On May 13, 93.5 RED FM organized a friendly match between RED XI and SunRisers Hyderabad. Red FM also happens to be the Principal Sponsor for SunRisers Hyderabad team for this season of IPL. Another engaging intiative held by the brand was a party held at Dome, Intercontinental, Mumbai last month (pics below).
Players such as Shikhar Dhawan, Trent Boult, Dale Steyn, Ishant Sharma among others participated in the game as RED XI players tried their hand at cricket at Leonia Resort. RED FM earlier ran an on-air contest “Slogan for SunRisers, Hyderabad”. Four listeners who gave the best slogans related were chosen winners and became part of RED XI. The RED XI squad also included trade partners, key clients and key journalists. RED FM Captain Alok Saxsena won the toss and elected to field. Sunrisers Hyderabad was headed by Ravi Bopara who made 118 runs with Shikhar Dhawan. Bopara, getting deceived by a beautiful delivery by Alok Saxsena, was caught by RJ Ashish mid wicket. RED XI in return managed to stack up 45 runs on the score board with Alok Saxsena scoring the highest run followed Vikrant Gupta.
Speaking about the match, Mr Rajat Uppal, National Marketing Head, RED FM said, “We have had the most exciting season of IPL so far. During the season we organized a number of on- ground activities to engage with our listeners and bring the cricketers closer to their fans. The contest ‘Slogan for SunRisers, Hyderabad’ generated great euphoria amongst our listeners. We hope that the winners of the contest as well as our partners had a good time with the SRH players”
During the presentation ceremony Shikhar Dhawan gave out the “Red Rockstar of the Match” to Alok Saxsena, “Superhit Batsman of the Match” was given out to Vikrant Gupta and “Bajaate raho Bowler of the Match” was given to Abhishek Dalvi.
Red FM being the principal sponsor for SunRisers Hyderabad, IPL players such as Shikhar Dhawan, Trent Boult, Dale Steyn and Ishant Sharma among others participated.