N Sankar addressing the gathering.
Alwarpet Cricket Club, a senior division team of the Tamil Nadu Cricket Club, which has been under the Sanmar umbrella for over a decade recently celebrated six decades in the league. Many players, past and present attended the nostalgic reunion on 10 November 2012.
The occasion was used to recall the founding and early days of ACC, to rewind to its highs and to applaud the men who had seen it through the ages.
It was also a time to recall the work done by its founder, V A Parthasarathi (VAP as he was fondly known).
Bharat Reddy and K Balaji, Managing Director, The Hindu.
N Sankar with former ACC captain M Subramaniam and former Indian captain S Venkataraghavan.
Speakers recalled the immense support ACC got in its early days – from S Parthasarathy (or Papa as he was known) of The Hindu newspaper, V Pattabhiraman, once a senior head of TNCA (TN Cricket Assn.), TVS' R Ratnam and K S Narayanan of The Sanmar Group.
Three people who played in the first match for ACC in 1949 – Samuel Raja, TK Lakshmanan and R Krishnamurthy – were felicitated.
(Front row L to r): P Mukund, U Prabhakar Rao, K Srikanth, M Subramaniam, KR Geethalakshmi, PK Dharmalingam. Several former ACC cricketers are in the background.