In a landmark moment for inclusive sports in India, the Pan-Disability Indian Cricket was officially announced on Monday.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has deferred Saturday’s proposed meeting in Guwahati. The meeting was scheduled to finalise the annual central contracts for men’s cricketers.
Praising India’s depth of talent, Australia’s star fast bowler Mitchell Starc feels it’s the only nation that can have three different teams playing in three different formats on the same day and still be competitive.
The bowling talisman overcame fellow nominees Travis Head, Joe Root and Harry Brook to the title and is the fifth recipient of the award from India, after Rahul Dravid (2004), Sachin Tendulkar (2010), Ravichandran Ashwin (2016) and Virat Kohli (2017, 2018).
Rishi Dhawan, the fast-bowling allrounder from Himachal Pradesh who represented India in four limited-over games (three ODIs and one T20I), has called time on his white-ball career. Dhawan’s announcement has come after the conclusion of the group stage of the ongoing Vijay Hazare Trophy.
While not mentioning Dhoni by name, Gambhir argues that the individual and their public relations team were responsible for elevating Dhoni to hero status for the 2007 and 2011 World Cups.
It is not as if the format-specific captains will cease to matter but they are also likely to have had it driven home already that the coach of the team ~ think back to Anil Kumble, before Shastri ~ is not to be taken for granted by anyone within the squad and eventuality left undefended by the cricket board.
Speaking after the meeting, Committee of Administrators chief Vinod Rai said that while the BCCI elections will be held on October 22, the apex council of the state associations will now have 19 members in place of nine as discussed with the Amicus Curiae.
The difference this time around is that India pulled it off in Australia, after decades of failure, inclusive of the phase when Kerry Packer’s shock-and-awe invasion had left cricket Down Under in a state of panic.
The project was launched by Sachin Tendulkar in presence of Deputy Commissioner Rakesh Kumar Prajapati and Superintendent of Police Diwakar Sharma in Una on Monday.
