ICC pledge support for Bangladesh (3 November 1998)
DHAKA, Nov 2: International Cricket Council (ICC) will extend all possible support to Bangladesh for the promotion of cricket, ICC chief executive David Richard said on Sunday
03-Nov-1998
3 November 1998
ICC pledge support for Bangladesh
By Hasan Saeed
DHAKA, Nov 2: International Cricket Council (ICC) will extend all
possible support to Bangladesh for the promotion of cricket, ICC
chief executive David Richard said on Sunday.
Bangladesh has everything in it and Bangladesh Cricket Board has
proved their worth by successfully organising the International Cup
cricket tournament, Richard said.
Paying rich tributes to the BCB officials he said, "It's a great
success and the organisers have done an extremely great job".
"Cricket crowd in this country are wonderful and very supportive to
the game. They are knowledgeable. Facilities are excellent", the ICC
chief executive said.
The facilities, arrangements, capabilities of hosting major
international competitions convinced the ICC officials and that will
definitely help Bangladesh cricket in the days to come, Richard said.
Regarding ICC support to Bangladesh, he said bringing this mini-World
Cup in Dhaka was a great support as the projection of the country
reached every corner of the world. The cricket lovers across the
world got the idea about Bangladesh and its ability to organise such
a major cricket event and saw the infrastructure through television.
Besides some other development programmes would be taken in
Bangladesh as part of globalisation of cricket and ICC's Asian
development officer and former Pakistani test cricketer Nasimul Ghani
will visit Bangladesh after Ramadan to discuss programme for the
development of cricket.
Regarding the appeal for Test status, he said Bangladesh must play
more first class matches at home and abroad as well as introduce
first class cricket in the country and all these things would be
reviewed by the three-member sub-committee headed by Boby Simpson.
The committee will submit a report to ICC and it would be discussed
in the next ICC meeting in June next year.
Chairman of the ICC Cricket committee Sir Clyde Walcott also highly
appreciated the cricket crowd terming as "very knowledgeable crowd".
"And it indicates bright future of Bangladesh cricket," he said on
Sunday.
Asia cup postponed
The Asia Cup cricket tournament scheduled to be played in Dhaka in
March next year will, in all probability be postponed till the winter.
This was done mainly to accommodate India's tour of Pakistan, which
will start on January 21 and end on March 15. Pakistan will play three
Test matches and three one dayers in India.
However, in the discussions that have gone on here between the
president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India Raj Singh
Dungarpur and his Pakistan counterpart Khaled Mahmood, the test
centres that have been more or less finalised are Calcutta, Bangalore
and Madras. Mohali in Chandigarh will certainly be hosting a one day
international. The other two venues are yet to be finalised. The
Pakistani Board, however, made it very clear that they would not play
in Mumbai under any circumstances.
Source :: Dawn (https://dawn.com/)