India, Lanka ties running into bad weather
Posted on Aug 06, 2008 at 13:24 | Updated Aug 06, 2008 at 15:35
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Mumbai: The Central Organising Committee meeting for World Cup 2011 has been postponed indefinitely following BCCI chief Sharad Pawar's inability to attend the meet. Although Sri Lankan Cricket cites official engagements as the reason for Pawar's unavailability, there is more than what meets the eye.
Pawar is reportedly "not happy" with the recent remarks by Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) chief Arjuna Ranatunga.
Ranatunga had publicly criticised the Indian board for not making "participation" fees to SLC for the Indian Premier League. The former World Cup winning captain of Lanka had also called the twenty20 tournament in India maggies and noodles.
His comments after India's debacle in the first Test in Colombo that the Indians played the five-day encounter as a twenty20 match did not go well with the BCCI. The relations between the two boards worsened after rebel ICL player Upul Chandana was invited to distribute prizes at the end of the second Test at Galle.
The postponed meeting which was scheduled for August 8 in Colombo, now may be shifted to some other country. Senior board officials from Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan and Bangladesh were to discuss on organising the tournament, grounds and logistic arrangements.
While Pawar is the chairman of the committee, Sri Lanka's Sujeewa Rajapakse is treasurer. Also, senior Pakistan cricket administrator Salim Altaf's future as director for World Cup 2011 is in jeopardy after his relations with PCB were badly affected.
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Posted By Tapas
I just cannot understand why everytime there has to be a collective bid for the world cup? Can\''t India do
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Posted By sarath hyderabad
I hope every one i mean all the boards around the world breaks with BCCI and join ICL....for us we
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Posted By abhik
Ranatunga is a very respected, straight talking person. Kudos to him for standing up to the monetarily motivated BCCI run
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