Jude and Pillay to grace Syed Ahmed Cup final.

Star Dhanraj Pillay and his mentor Jude Felix will grace the final of the IOB-Syed Memorial State level invitation hockey tournament 2010 final to be played under floodlights in Chennai on Sunday.

Though Mohideen Khan, minister for Environment, Youth and Sports Development, Government of Tamil Nadu will be chief guest, the expected presence of locally popular Pillay and Singapore-living Jude Felix has increased the glamour of the State Level event.

Jude Felix is specially invited for the tournament from Singapore where is permanently stationed. He was there last year as well. The Organizing Committee has also invited many other stars for the final. They include, Muneer Sait, Charles Cornelius, Leslie Fernandes, VJ Philips, V. Baskaran, R. Prabhakaran, CR Kumar, Alloysius Edwards, Sabu Varkey, P. Shanmugam, Md. Riaz, Dinesh Nayak, Tirumalvalavan and Adam Sinclair.

Adam, lone Anglo-Indian in the contemporary scene, is of course a playing in the tournament.