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India’s first pro polo league set for grand launch in Jaipur

India’s first pro polo league set for grand launch in Jaipur
Ahmedabad is one of the three cities to host league matches.
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Bhavnagar-based industrialist and polo patron, Chirag Parekh, who is launching India’s first Pro Polo League (PPL) next month, has selected Ahmedabad as one of the three cities to host league matches.
Parekh, who leads his own polo team Carysil Cowboys, has roped in global professional services and accounting firm Ernst & Young (E&Y) for branding and promoting the PPL.

Top polo players from around the world will be playing the league matches that will be held under the flood lights on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.
PPL will be launched in Jaipur on December 17 in the presence of royal families of Jaipur, Udaipur and Jodhpur. The league matches will begin from March next year.
“We are very excited about the launch of the country’s first PPL. Our aim is to take the game of royals as close to masses as possible. The league matches will be played in Jaipur, Mumbai and Ahmedabad. Reputed polo players from around the world will be playing in six teams of the league with each team having one top foreign polo player,” Parekh told TOI.

“The polo league will be a grand event and we are expecting it to be a huge attraction for people in all the cities where matches are scheduled. The momentum is being built up across the country with planned promotional events in the coming weeks,” said Parekh.
Carysil Cowboys has won at least seven prestigious national tournaments in the last six years.
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Vijaysinh Parmar

Vijaysinh Parmar is principal correspondent at The Times of India, Rajkot, and reports on the Saurashtra and Kutch regions. Apart from regular assignments in Rajkot, he travels extensively in rural area to report on the "other Gujarat". He reported on the drinking water crisis in interiors of the state in 2008, forcing the government to swing into action. He has also reported on the practice of untouchability still prevalent in parts of Gujarat.

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