da roleta： Congress parliamentary party deputy leader Madhavrao Scindia on Sundayhoped that suspended cricketing ties between India and Pakistan wouldbe restored after the summit between Prime Minister Atal BihariVajpayee and Pakistan President Pervez
Staff and Agencies16-Jul-2001* Scindia hopes summit will restore Indo-Pak cricketing tiesCongress parliamentary party deputy leader Madhavrao Scindia on Sundayhoped that suspended cricketing ties between India and Pakistan wouldbe restored after the summit between Prime Minister Atal BihariVajpayee and Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf.Talking to reporters at Indore airport, Scindia, a former president ofthe Board of Control for Cricket in India, criticised the BJP-led NDAgovernment for snapping cricket ties with Pakistan. “Since the NDAhas a history of taking u-turns from its earlier positions, there arechances of normalisation of relations in this field,” he said.”Mutual exchanges in the arena of sports, culture and education,among other fields, has the potential of cementing ties between thetwo countries,” the Congress leader said. “Even the Prime Ministerhad two months ago stated that there will not be any talks with thePakistan government until it stopped abetting cross border terrorism.But suddenly he has extended an invitation to Musharraf and thereforeon the issue of cricket also the government will take a u-turn,”Scindia added.* Indian quartet back, richer by the Adelaide experienceFour talented trainees from the National Cricket Academy, DeepakChoughule, Vinayak Mane, Parthiv Patel and Arindham Das have returnedricher by their coaching experience at the Commonwealth BankAustralian Cricket Academy at Adelaide.Three of the players – Deepak, Vinayak and Parthiv – were selectedunder the aegis of the Gavasar-Border Foundation scholarship whileArindham’s trip was sponsored by the Cricket Association of Bengal.The traines were at the Australian Academy from June 4 to July 14.The four unanimously agreed that the trip was a great exposure and theblend of strenuous physical fitness sessions and technical skillswould stand them in good stead. In addition they had the benefit oflistening to former Australian captain Ian Chappell who spoke to themon captaincy, umpiring and various other aspects of the game. “Welearnt a lot,” the quartet echoed.Last year Sridharan Sriram, Md Kaif and Shiv Sundar Das had been sentunder the Gavaskar-Border scholarship to Adelaide for a similar stint.* ACA’s month long coaching camp concludesThe month long coaching camp at the Assam Cricket Academy which beganat Guwahati on June 17, concluded on July 15. At a simple function,distinguished guests like Pankaj Bora, MLA, Rana Goswami, MLA and theformer secretary of the ACA Badan Saikia, the former ACA vicepresident and former Ranji player from Dibrugarh Jatin Bora and manyformer Ranji Trophy players from the city attended the closingceremony of the Academy.After the guests and ex-players, as well as one of the twoInternational umpires from Assam, Suren Ram Phukan, were felicitatedwith the traditional `Gamocha’, the inaugural speech was delivered byNandan Bezbaruah, ACA secretary and he made a special mention of thecoaches who rendered selfless service for the past month. “It isbecause of them that the camp was conducted so successfully,” hesaid. The function was presided over by Brojen Gohain, ACA Vice-President while Dilip Choudhury, assistant secretary, ACA proposed avote of thanks.Fifty two players were selected initially of which 32 were kept to theend of the camp. They were all given certificates and a T-shirt.