Rediff Logo
Line
Channels: Astrology | Broadband | Contests | E-cards | Money | Movies | Romance | Search | Weather | Wedding | Women
Partner Channels: Auctions | Auto | Bill Pay | IT Education | Jobs | Lifestyle | Technology | Travel
Line
Home > Cricket > PTI > News
April 1, 2001
Feedback  
  sections

 -  News
 -  Diary
 -  Betting Scandal
 -  Schedule
 -  Statistics
 -  Interview
 -  Columns
 -  Gallery
 -  Broadband
 -  Match Reports
 -  Archives
 -  Search Rediff




 
 Search the Internet
         Tips
 India Australia Tour

E-Mail this report to a friend

Print this page

India should not play in Sharjah,
Toronto, Singapore: Govt

India will not participate in the Sharjah triangular cricket tournament after the government on Sunday expressed its reservations over the team playing at non-regular venues.

The government has informed the Board of Control for Cricket in India of its decision refusing permission to the team to participate in the tournament, also featuring Pakistan and Sri Lanka, which was to start in the second week of April.

"Government has decided, after careful consideration, that the Indian cricket team should not participate in cricket tournaments at non-regular venues such as Sharjah, Singapore, Toronto etc, for at least three years," an official release said in New Delhi on Sunday.

"BCCI has accordingly been informed that the Indian cricket team should not participate in the forthcoming tournament in Sharjah commencing from April 8, 2001," the release said.

UNI adds:
BCCI president A C Muthiah on Sunday said the Board would accept and abide by the Union government's decision.

''Since this seems to be the government's policy, the Board will accept and abide by it,'' he said.

The losers would be the former test cricketers who were nominated as beneficiaries of the tournament.

In view of the decision, the BCCI would make alternative arrangements to help the cricketers, he added.

Mail Cricket Editor

(c) Copyright 2000 PTI. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of PTI content, including by framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent.