Divya Dutta buys first Gully Cricket Team

After the craze for owning a Twenty 20 team, now the game's T-10 format, called Gully Cricket, has started attracting celebrities.

Actress Divya bought the Ludhiana Gully Cricket team Saturday for season two that will kick-start Sep 19 and end in a grand finale at Kanpur Nov 20, a spokesperson said here Sunday.

It will be played amongst 896 players from 64 teams in Ludhiana, Jalandhar, Amritsar, Panchkula, Varanasi, Gorakhpur, Ballia, Patna, Gwalior, Lucknow, Kanpur, Allahabad, Surat, Nashik, Latur and Daman and will be telecast live on DD Sports Channel.

Divya, who is from Ludhiana, will patronise the team and be responsible for marketing and promoting it nationally. She will also be involved in activities like grooming the players, cheering them and sponsorships for the team.

Film actor Riteish Deshmukh is the brand ambassador of the event, the first season of which was completed in January-February 2009.

Divya Dutta:Shine and glow

For all you mean minds who still think Divya Dutta is the same old girl they have seen on the screen, go take a walk. We recently got a peek at her and we must say her makeover has been truly astonishing.

She has lost oodles of weight and her new avatar is making quite a few heads swivel around in B -Town. But the one to suffer from Divya’s weight loss phenomena is Ajay Devgan who is making his directorial debut with U Me Aur Hum.

Ajay was overheard complaining that he’s having a tough time editing Divya’s scene. Reason? When they started shooting, Divya was her usual self and when they ended, she had shrunk to half. But Diyva isn’t complaining. A slim and trim, Ms Dutta is always better than the old humpty dumpty, no?