{"id":109233,"date":"2026-01-23T18:08:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T12:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/?p=109233"},"modified":"2026-01-23T18:08:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T12:38:03","slug":"agdbya-celebrates-sportsmanship-and-heritage-at-8th-annual-daivadnya-cricket-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/?p=109233","title":{"rendered":"AGDBYA celebrates sportsmanship and heritage at 8th Annual Daivadnya Cricket Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Goa Khabar : The 8th edition of Akhil Gomantakiya Daivadnya Brahmin Youth Association\u2019s (AGDBYA\u2019s) Daivadnya Cricket Cup 2026 was held on 17th &amp; 18th January 2026 at S.A.G ground, Fatorda. The concluding ceremony of the cricket event was attended by Dr. Geeta Nagvenkar, Member Secretary, Goa State Pollution Control Board as the Chief Guest and Dr. Chitra D. Lotlikar, General Medicine Practitioner as the Guest of Honour.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sakshi Haldankar, National Weight lifting champion was felicitated with Daivadnya Sports Achiever Award.<\/p>\n<p>Total 17 teams from all over Goa took part in this tournament including 2 women\u2019s team and 2 kids&#8217; team. Seema Rohit Vernekar, President-AGDBYA welcomed the guests and other dignitaries and briefed about all the events, activities and other social service activities carried out by the association throughout the year. Chief Guest Dr. Geeta Nagvenkar appreciated the efforts of AGDBYA for conducting such types of event professionally and thanked the association for inviting her as the Chief Guest for the function.<\/p>\n<p>The winning teams, the runner-up teams and other individuals received trophies from the guests in a grand function that was attended by more than 200 people. The prizes received are as below:-<br \/>\nMen\u2019s Winning team \u2013 Shree Bodgeshwar<br \/>\nMen\u2019s Runner\u2019s up \u2013 Vernekar Warriors<br \/>\nMan of the Series \u2013 Amrut Verlekar<br \/>\nBest Batsman \u2013 Amrut Verlekar<br \/>\nBest Bowler \u2013 Siddhesh Vernekar<br \/>\nMan of the match for final \u2013 Atharv Verlekar<br \/>\nBest catch \u2013 Mahendra Karekar<br \/>\nMaximum sixes \u2013 Amrut Verlekar<br \/>\nEmerging player \u2013 Sahil Verlekar<br \/>\nWomen\u2019s Winning team \u2013 Super strikers<br \/>\nWomen\u2019s Runner\u2019s up \u2013 Dakshin warriors<br \/>\nPlayer of the match (Women\u2019s) \u2013 Nishita Pednekar<br \/>\nKid\u2019s winning team \u2013 Royal 11<\/p>\n<p>Aishani Lotlikar and Dr. Rajvi Lotlikar compered for the function. Sampada Nagvekar, Secretary-AGDBYA gave the vote of thanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goa Khabar : The 8th edition of Akhil Gomantakiya Daivadnya Brahmin Youth Association\u2019s (AGDBYA\u2019s) Daivadnya Cricket Cup 2026 was held on 17th &amp; 18th January 2026 at S.A.G ground, Fatorda. The concluding ceremony of the cricket event was attended by Dr. Geeta Nagvenkar, Member Secretary, Goa State Pollution Control Board as the Chief Guest and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25169,"featured_media":109234,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,155],"tags":[3794],"class_list":["post-109233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-6","category-155","tag-featured"],"read":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109235,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109233\/revisions\/109235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/109234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}