Definitely there is not going to be a peace cricket encounter between India and Sri Lanka in the near future. According to a BCCI cricket heavyweight, the proposed peace match between India and Sri Lanka in aid of the Mumbai massacre victims may be some one’s figment of imagination.
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Sharad Pawar |
An SLC cricket insider who has close links with the BCCI told The Sunday Times that he would not buy the claim made by SLC Interim Committee chairman Arjuna Ranatunga that he had a one-on-one with former BCCI president Sharad Pawar on this subject.
The insider said “When I contacted the BCCI on the subject, they were quite unaware of such a development and they reiterated that the present state of relations between the BCCI and the SLC were not the healthiest and a goodwill tour of that nature would not materialise.”
Interaction between the Board of Control for Cricket in India and Sri Lanka Cricket hit an all time low as result of certain actions adopted by SLC chief Ranatunga regarding the IPL.
It is pointed that SLC’s pardon for the Lankan Cricketers who took part in the ICL, which is not recognized by the BCCI and the subsequent placement of those cricketers in the after-match podium during the India-Sri Lanka series had not gone down well with the Indian cricket authorities.
Earlier there were reports of Ranatunga having a chat with the former BCCI president Sharad Pawar and offering to send a full fledged Lankan team to India for a peace match to raise funds for the Mumbai terror victims.
During the 1996 World Cup India and Pakistan sent a joint cricket team to Sri Lanka to show their solidarity when Australia and the West Indies refused to tour the island sighting the violence in Sri Lanka.
Arjuna Ranatunga was the captain of the Sri Lanka and the international team was led by former Indian skipper Mohammed Azharuddin. The match was played at the R. Premadasa Stadium. |
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