[Reader-list] Services (cricket team) expelled after refusing to play in Srinagar

[Kshmendra Kaul]

Dear AKM
 
My response to you would be dated, now that they (Services) have apologised and have put forward all kinds of excuses and blame-shifts.
 
Obviously they themselves (the Services) have come to the conclusion that they behaved in a foolish manner. 
 
Kshmendra
 

--- On Wed, 11/4/09, A.K. Malik <akmalik45 at yahoo.com> wrote:


From: A.K. Malik <akmalik45 at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Reader-list] Services (cricket team) expelled after refusing to play in Srinagar
To: "Kshmendra Kaul" <kshmendra2005 at yahoo.com>
Cc: "Sarai List" <reader-list at sarai.net>
Date: Wednesday, November 4, 2009, 12:30 AM


Hi Mr Kaul, 
            Are you inferring that those manning the Services team are fools and because of the defeat threat they didn't participate in the match?
Regards,
           
(A.K.MALIK)


--- On Tue, 11/3/09, Kshmendra Kaul <kshmendra2005 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Kshmendra Kaul <kshmendra2005 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [Reader-list] Services (cricket team) expelled after refusing to play in Srinagar
> To: "sarai list" <reader-list at sarai.net>
> Date: Tuesday, November 3, 2009, 2:05 PM
> Well done BCCI. Bravo! 
>  
> Shame on you "Services" cricket team.
>  
> The J&K cricket team had (incidentally) trounced the
> Services cricket team on 21st Oct '09, winning their match
> by 9 wickets. That was in the Syed Mushtaq Ali 20/20
> competition.
>  
> Kshmendra
>  
>  
> Ranji Trophy 2009-10
>  
> "Services expelled after refusing to play in Srinagar"
>  
> Cricinfo staff
> November 3, 2009
>  
> The BCCI has barred the Services team from taking any
> further part in the 2009-10 Ranji Trophy season after it
> refused to play its opening Ranji Trophy game against Jammu
> and Kashmir in Srinagar. The team, which is controlled by
> India's defence ministry, opted out of the Plate division
> game and did not travel to the city. Further action against
> Services will be decided upon by the BCCI's working
> committee. 
>  
> "We are not going to Srinagar for the opening match. We
> have been told to prepare for the next game," JP Pandey,
> assistant coach of the Services, told the Indian Express. 
>  
> J&K captain Vinayak Mane said he was aware only on the
> morning of the match that the opposition was not going to
> turn up. "I don't know why Services isn't travelling to
> Srinagar. If security was the problem, they should have
> raised the issue since BCCI released the schedule long ago,"
> he said. "It's big for cricket in the valley. The pitch in
> Srinagar is newly laid and there was excitement here. This
> match would have been a big boost for cricket here." 
>  
> Farooq Abdullah, the president of the Jammu & Kashmir
> Cricket Association (JKCA), said he had heard that Services
> had been advised not to travel to Srinagar. "When everyone
> else is here, including guest players and umpires, how is it
> that they can't come?" he told the Times Now television
> channel. "It completely negates what the prime minister,
> home minister and defence minister say. I am going to take
> this up very seriously with the government of India and I am
> going to tell the prime minister and defence minister that
> this will not do." 
>  
> N Srinivasan, the secretary of the BCCI, confirmed that
> Services Sports Control Board (SSCB), which manages all
> sports teams of the Indian defence forces, has been
> disqualified from the tournament for this season, pending
> further action. "Action will be taken according to our
> rules," he said. "The SSCB has been disqualified from
> participating in the 2009-10 edition of the Ranji Trophy, in
> accordance with the rules of the BCCI pertaining to domestic
> tournaments. A decision on any further action against the
> SSCB will be taken by the BCCI's Working Committee." 
>  
> The Ranji Plate Division match was scheduled at the
> Sher-e-Kashmir stadium, which last hosted a one-day
> international against West Indies in 1986. The last
> first-class game in Srinagar was in 2004 against Orissa. The
> next fixture scheduled here is against Haryana on November
> 10.
>  
> http://www.cricinfo.com/india/content/story/432759.html
>  
>  
> 
> 
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