Santosh David Poonen is a long-standing member of Berkeley Cricket Club, and has served as Secretary of the NCCA since January, 2004. His cricket started at an early age on the streets of Bangalore outside his childhood home. He went on to represent his schools on first the Junior and then the Senior teams. When he left India to complete his undergraduate studies in the U.S., the only cricket he ever got to play was with a few other international students in college. Of course, with limited equipment and ground facilities, and given the weather patterns in Michigan, there was only so much cricket to be had. This did not, however, diminish his passion for the game. So, when he moved to California in 1996 and discovered that there was an organized cricket league in the Bay Area, it wasn't long before he was an active member of the NCCA. These days, when he's not off pursuing any of his numerous other interests in climbing, skiing, league soccer, etc., or recuperating from injuries incurred thereby, you can usually find him, gloves donned, squatting behind the stumps, or tossing up a wrong-un for his team.

E-Mail: sect@ncalcricket.org

Reju was recently elected as Secretary of Northern California Cricket Association, also serving as President of Sunnyvale Cricket club and office holder in a few other social, technological and ethnic organizations. As a regular cricketer, inter-collegiate games were the highest level of cricket ever played back home. After a long break he started playing cricket with Sunnyvale CC in 1996.

Reju is working for a startup company in San Jose. Hobbies: Cricket, hiking, biking, camping, music and reading.

E-Mail: cfo@ncalcricket.org

Rumors to the contrary, not withstanding, Alan is not one of the founder members of the Golden Gate Cricket Club (established in 1908). He has, however, been playing for them since 1972 and he vows to keep playing until he drops!!

Alan learned his cricket with the Morpeth Cricket Club in the North of England and emigrated to Canada in 1958. He spent the next 10 years playing for the Verdun Cricket Club in Montreal and represented the winning Quebec team at the Canadian Provincial tournament held in Ottawa, in 1967. He moved to NYC in 1969 and played for Staten Island Cricket Club until moving to Northern California in late 1971. Alan represented Northern California several times during the 1970's and early 80's and he won the "Man of the Match" award in the 1978 Raisinland Trophy game. This secured him a nomination to the USA squad for the I.C.C. trophy held in England in 1979. Another of Alan's proudest moments in local cricket was his dismissal of Alan Border during the visit of the Queensland Cricketers Club in 1981. He has always been a very active members of the GGCC either as Captain, President or Secretary and he has served as the Association's Match Secretary since 1976. Alan lives, with his lovely wife Kiyo, in San Francisco.

E-Mail: amatchsec@ncalcricket.org

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Growing up in cricket crazy Karachi, played for zonal teams in KCCA (Karachi City Cricket Association) league. Represented NED University of Engineering & Technology in the Intra Universities tournament in 1982.

Joined Marin CC in 1995 and continues to be a social member with the club. He joined United CC in 1997 and served as their club secretary in 2001 and was the vice captain for the 2nd team for the 2002 season.

An Electrical Engineer by profession, Shamim works for SBC as Network Manager. Prior to that he worked for Cisco as Systems Engineer and for Newbridge (now Alcatel) as Network Engineer.

Besides cricket (the ultimate passion), enjoys music, movies, sking and hiking. Of late he has been trying to emulate "Tiger" at Golf.

E-Mail: cmatchsec@ncalcricket.org