Hotel Welcomgroup, one of the sponsors of the six-a-side corporate cricket tournament organised on Saturday night by the Vadodara Centre for Animal Rescue and Emergency (VCARE), won the tournament by defeating Jyoti Limited in the finals and were magnanimous enough to give the mementoes meant for the players of the winning side to the players of the runners-up team.

The tongue-in-cheek commentary of Shabbir Sheikh, now a very familiar sight behind the mike at such `fun' tournaments with his inimitable mimicry and singing prowess, and former Ranji player Mukesh Narula, testing his wares behind the mike for the first time but no less cheeky, kept the proceedings lively for the seven hours that the tournament lasted.

A player on the ground was surprised to hear Narula on the loud-speaker welcoming Dilip Kumar, but understood what he was up to when Shabbir Sheikh mimicked some of the more famous dialogues of the matinee idol, and then, unannounced, followed it up with Dharmendra, Keshto Mukherjee and a host of other film stars.

Narula restricted himself to the cricketing aspects and couldn't stop wondering ``when the ball would catch the fielders' hands''.

Rich tributes were paid by a corporate bigwig to Nandita Amin and Dr Annapoorna, the two women `behind' the tournament organised for ``raising funds to promote animal welfare activities'' in the city.

``It is because of these two ladies who prefer to hide behind the scene,'' he said as he looked around but could not spot them, ``that we in the corporate world get a chance to come out of our shells to play and realise that apart from our work we have some social commitments too.''

In the other league matches Jyoti Limited beat Jord Engineers, Press VI beat Sheetal Mehta VI, Jyoti Limited beat VCARE VI, Hotel Welcomgroup beat Sheetal Mehta VI, Jord Engineers beat VCARE VI, and Hotel Welcomgroup beat Press VI.