About Gully Cricket Trust
A registered trust from Karnataka taking gully cricket and village games from every taluk to the national arena.
It began with a simple worry.
Gully Cricket Trust began in Bengaluru with a simple worry: our children were playing less. Screens had replaced street cricket, and the village games our parents grew up with were quietly disappearing.
We registered as a trust in 2026 (Reg. No. BNG-(U)JNR. 244-2026-27) to do something about it. Our answer is competition. Give young people a real tournament, a fair chance and a prize worth chasing, and they will come back outside.
Today we are building a ladder of competitions that starts at the taluk ground and ends at a national final. Boys, girls, men and women each have their own path, in Under-18 and Up-to-25 age groups. Alongside cricket we are reviving 15 traditional games, from kabaddi to gilli danda.
Four reasons we could not ignore.
Mobile addiction.
Children spend most of their free time on phones. We want to give them a reason to put them down.
Hidden talent.
Gifted players in small towns never get seen by selectors. We bring the stage to them.
Health.
Outdoor play builds fitness, focus and friendships that screens cannot.
Heritage.
Games like lagori and chaupar are part of who we are. We do not want them to vanish.
A strong, healthy and united India where every young player, rural or urban, girl or boy, has an equal chance to go from local streets to national glory.
- Take gully cricket to all 6,562 sub-districts of India.
- Get boys, girls, youth and women playing in their own categories.
- Promote fitness, unity and sportsmanship, and say no to drugs.
- Revive India's traditional village games at taluk, district, state and national level.
What every team signs up to.
Respect for opponents, umpires and the crowd.
Nobody wins alone.
On time, in kit, playing by the rules.
Fit body, fit mind.
Captains who lift their team.
What we've set ourselves to be judged by.
Sir M. Visvesvaraya grew up in a village in Karnataka and went on to build dams, schools and colleges that changed lives far from any city. He believed that discipline and hard work, applied patiently, lift whole communities. That is the standard we've set ourselves: a tournament is only worth running if a child from a small village gets a real chance to be seen. We keep his portrait on our wall to remember that the measure is how many players we lifted, not how big the event looked.
Sir M. Visvesvaraya (1861-1962) was Diwan of Mysore, the engineer behind the Krishna Raja Sagara dam, and a founder of institutions that still serve Karnataka. He was awarded the Bharat Ratna in 1955, and his birthday, 15 September, is celebrated as Engineers' Day. He showed that a boy from a Karnataka village could build for the whole nation. We want every gully player to believe the same about themselves.
More than a trophy.
Want to bring the championship to your taluk?
Host a taluk round, sponsor a team or volunteer on match day.