Texas Tech’s Baiju Shah – a 2011 Club President of the Year !
- Baiju bowling at the 2011 American College Cricket Spring Break Championship
It’s impossible to be elected President of the USA without the media. Practically no enterprise, from the NFL to the IPL, Apple to Lady Gaga, can be successful without use of the media.
The popularity of Tendulkar or Tebow is tied to media as much as their on field accomplishments.
Yet even our college cricket players don’t readily grasp the important role you can play promoting our game – and have to be pushed to do what you can do very easily – post an AmericanCollegeCricket.com article on Facebook & Google + now and again.
The club that has been the best at this is the Texas Tech Raider Cricket Club led by Baiju Shah ! From the moment they joined American College Cricket this club has understood our mission, and promoted the cause. I can bet that this article will be one of the most re-posted, and widely read !
Returning from the 2011 nationals, the team was featured in a Photo Shoot so the school could put them in the University’s Viewbook, which is used to recruit students !
Then the club was named Texas Tech’s “Student Organisation of the Year” out of over 400 organizations ! Next the Texas Tech Sports Clubs Federation awarded the Raider Cricket Club “Team of the Year” !
They were also in Lubbock media for their World Cup party and celebration of India’s World Championship win. Lubbock is the birthplace of early rock icon Buddy Holly.
Whilst Raiders Cricket Club President Baiju Shah was quick to give Captain Rahul Chadha and the Club credit, his leadership was clearly outstanding.
“We started promoting the game and club through club t-shirts and online fundraisers. That helped us in attracting a lot of eye balls, which in turn helped us in other fundraisers and collecting a lot of donations from the community, local businesses and cricket loving professors. Whatever was short, the players pitched in. ”
Texas Tech has its own on-campus cricket field.
A graduate of the Maharashtra Institute of Technology, Pune, Baiju recently graduated from Texas Tech with a Masters in Management Systems and is working in Kentucky. There has been a smooth transition to the new leadership of Nihal Shah.
by Lloyd Jodah
