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Reddy with his medal.
A trio of cricket teams, made up of staff based at the Royal Preston Hospital have raised £1,650 for mothers and babies charity, Baby Beat.
The teams, all drawn from NHS Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Cricket Club, included clinical and administrative staff.
They were captained by stroke consultant Dr Hari Bhaskar Kemparaju, who is also the club’s chairman, neurosurgeon Mr Kaushik Ghosh, who is treasurer, and its secretary, GP Dr Praful Reddy, who works at Ashton’s Briarwood Medical Centre.
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The teams battled it out in a one-day tournament at Guys Thatched Hamlet in Bilsborrow.
Mr Ghosh’s team came away victorious, with one of the cricketers being a former Indian Premier League star.
Prince Davis, tournament organising committee member and radiology rota and leave co-ordinator said: “We are very grateful to all of the players and supporters. We’re also grateful to Sean Wilkinson, of the Wilkinson family, who own Guys Thatched Hamlet, and its manager Anne Musella for making the event possible by again providing facilities and lunch for the players.
“We had been due to play the weekend before with four teams but rain forced us to cancel so everyone had to put in extra effort to ensure the tournament went ahead. It was our fourth annual charity cricket event.
“Our previous charity events have supported BK’s Heroes, which fundraises for research into brain cancer and kidney disease, the Stroke Association and in 2021, our first event raised money for COVID initiatives in India through the British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin.”
Members of the NHS Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Cricket Club are also celebrating winning the Preston Boddingtons Village Cricket League title this season.
Baby Beat is part of the Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Charity family. It funds specialist equipment, patient services and comforts, clinical care, local research, additional training and staff welfare projects so that the maternity and gynaecology teams can offer the best possible outcomes for babies and mums in the Central Lancashire and Chorley area.
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