Lawyers Football Championship Kanga amp Co beats Amarchand Mangaldas to lift cup JSA wins plate beating Wadia Ghandy

The Bombay Gymkhana had organized the 2nd Lawyers Football Championship on October 27 and 28, 2012. Kanga & Co. won the Champions Cup defeating Amarchand Mangaldas and J Sagar Associates won the Plate defeating Wadia Ghandy..The Bombay Gymkhana had organized the 2nd Lawyers Football Championship on October 27 and 28, 2012. Kanga & Co. won the Champions Cup defeating Amarchand Mangaldas and J Sagar Associates won the Plate defeating Wadia Ghandy..Kanga team included Kunal Vaidya, Joran Diwan, Swapnam Kajaria, Siddharth Bafna, Dhruv Bhuta, Bhoumick Vaidya, Anish Karande, Arpit Solanki and Vineet Nalawalla..The Cup has been named after M.C. Chagla, the first Indian Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court and is instituted by his son, Senior Counsel Iqbal Chagla..Farhan Dubash, Member, Organizing Committee of Bombay Gymkhana speaking to Bar & Bench said, “If you thought competition amongst lawyers is confined to courtrooms, think again. The Lawyers Football Championship is an annual tournament hosted by the Bombay Gymkhana. This is the most eagerly anticipated sporting event in the legal calendar of lawyers / law firms in the city. As in the past, this year too, saw an enthusiastic turn out with some law firms even flying in players from their offices in Delhi, Bangalore etc.”.The tournament witnessed participation of 17 teams. The prominent law firms include; Amarchand Mangaldas, JSA, AZB, Luthra, Trilegal, Wadia Ghandy, Kanga & Co., Mulla & Mulla, Juris Corp, Hariani & Co. The tournament was sponsored by Hariani and Co..Bombay Bar Association (BBA) had two teams representing the ‘Counsels’; BBA Seniors and BBA Juniors..Kunal Vaidya from Kanga won the Best Player of the Lawyers Cup award and Manavendra Mishra from Amarchand Mangaldas won the Outstanding Player of the Lawyers Cup award..Speaking to Bar & Bench, Kanga and Co. Captain Kunal Vaidya said, “‘Although I won the player of the tournament award; Joran Diwan and Swapnam Kajaria were the real stars having scored 4 goals each!”.Plate matches were played between 8 teams which had failed to qualify in the group qualifying matches. The JSA team which won the Plate included Anuj Bhasme, Varghese Thomas, Roy George, K Z Kuriyan, Deepak Thakur, Vikrant Patwardhan, Siddharth Desai, Narayan Kedia, Manav Raheja, Dhaval Kothari and Shaswata Dutta..Last year, Amarchand Mangaldas defeated Bombay Bar Association to lift the Cup and Mulla & Mulla defeated Desai Diwanji to lift the plate.