da jogodeouro： The Tamil Nadu Cricket Association (TNCA) celebrated its 71st AnnualDay at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai, on Friday
da 888casino： Staff and Agencies30-Jun-2001* Badani is TNCA Cricketer of the YearThe Tamil Nadu Cricket Association (TNCA) celebrated its 71st AnnualDay at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai, on Friday. AC Muthiah,the President of BCCI and TNCA welcomed the august gathering. Heexpressed great satisfaction in the success of the TNCA in hostinginternational matches and running the game in the state. JY Lele, thesecretary of BCCI who was the guest of honour said that TNCA was oneof the best administered associations. He was quick to add that theBCCI could learn a few things from the TNCA Annual Report, which is aperfect document.ME Vasu, Executive Director, Southern Region, Indian Oil CorporationLtd. presided over the function and gave away scholarships and awardsto leading players from the state. Hemang Badani was named Cricketerof the Year. Since Badani is away in Zimbabwe, playing for India inthe Coca Cola Cup triangular series, his father received the award.Other notable awardees: Anirudh Srikkanth (son of former India openingbatsman K Srikkanth) received the SW De Alwis Trophy for the JuniorSchool Cricketer of the Year. K Vasudeva Doss received the CSubramaniam Trophy for the School Cricketer of the Year. S VasanthSaravanan from Thiruvallur DCA was named as the Cricketer of the Yearfrom the districts. MR Shrinivas was named collegiate Cricketer of theYear and a special memento was presented to Vidyut Sivaramakrishnanfor his century in the Ranji Trophy pre quarterfinal against Delhi,coming in at No 11. For their outstanding performances in the RanjiTrophy, S Sharath (Highest Aggregate), S Mahesh (ConsistentPerformance) and S Sriram (Best Fielder) were also honoured.* Bengal umpires’ gesture to ailing JD GhoshThe Umpires of the Cricket Association of Bengal on Thursday presentedRs 10,000 to former Test and One Day International umpire Jiban DhanGhosh who is suffering from cancer. Ghosh said that he had written tothe BCCI and the CAB in this regard but the umpires association wasthe first to help him. Ghosh is the first Bengal umpire to officiatein an ODI. He supervised Four Test matches and three ODIs. He was theBoard Panel umpire from 1958-59 to 1991 which is a record. Hesupervised 38 Ranji Trophy matches including the final in 1980, nineDuleep Trophy matches including two finals and seven Deodhar Trophymatches including two finals.The AGM of the Umpires of the CAB was also held in Kolkata onThursday. Seventy seven umpires who are officiating matches for theCAB were present at the meeting. The umpires were presented two shirtsfor supervising matches in the coming season. Before the meeting, theyarranged a blood donation camp where 52 umpires donated blood. Thecamp was inaugurated by former international umpire, former ChiefJustice of the Rajasthan High Court and the chairman of The BengalHuman Rights Commission Mukul Gopal Mukherjee. Sekhar Chowdhury andArya Kishore Chatterjee were re-elected as the secretary and presidentof the Association.* Shivlal Yadav re-elected HCA selection committee chairmanFormer Test off spinner Shivlal Yadav has been re-elected chairman ofthe Hyderabad Cricket Association senior selection committee for2001-2002 at a meeting held in Hyderabad on Thursday. The othermembers of the committee are: V Manohar, MV Ramanamurthy and MosesNityanand.Moses Nityanand is the chairman of the state junior selectioncommittee. The other members are: Imran Mahmood, Surender Agarwal andFiazuddin.School Selection Committee: Fiazuddin (chairman), Satish Nelluri,Vidyut Jaisimha and P Venkatmurthy
