Hello and welcome to this edition of the I.E.C.C. Newsletter.
KCL gets up and running slowly
The Kanto Cricket League will be a 6 team affair this year and the first match is scheduled to be played on June 19 between the Shizuoka Kytes and Indian Engineers. The league, which was late to hold its AGM, is two months behind its usual starting date(April) but the organisers hope that with the reduced number of teams it is possible to finish the tournament in time.
The JCA league also started late this year but has picked up momentum with a number of matches being played already.
JCA Charity cricket match
In order to raise raise funds to help the victims of the March 11 Earthquake in Japan, the Japan Cricket Association has held a charitiy cricket match on June 4 and part of the money raised will be donated to support reconstruction in the disaster-affected areas. For further details are available at http://www.cricket.ne.jp/311
Indian Engineers on Twitter
Follow the Engineers at http://twitter.com/ieccjapan/ for live match updates and other cricket updates.
Three days after the World Cup final, officials from Sri Lanka are not
happy with the level of courtesy extended to their President Mahinda
Rajapaksa during his trip to Mumbai to watch the final, which they have
informally conveyed their displeasure at limited tickets made available
to Rajapaksa’s entourage, and at the refusal let him meet the teams
before the start of the match. Sri Lanka made a request for 40 tickets
to the BCCI through the Indian High Commission in Sri Lanka but only 10
were given. Around the same time, the cricket board got another request
for 36 passes from Rashtrapati Bhawan for Indian President Pratibha Patil
and her group. “Since it was not possible for us to accommodate everybody
at such short notice, we made 10 passes available to both the leaders in
President’s Box at the stadium,” BCCI’s Chief Administrative Officer
Ratnakar Shetty said. “Since the Indian President is from Mumbai, we made
another 20 passes available to her at the Garware pavilion. As for the Sri
Lankan President, we could offer him only 10 additional passes in the
Garware stand.”
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Within a day of touching down in Pakistan after being in hiding for five
months in London, runaway wicketkeeper Zulqarnain Haider has landed in a
legal soup with Kamran Akmal's father-in-law filing a Rs 100 million
defamation case against him. Haider, after returning home yesterday, told
a television channel that Kamran's father-in-law was a bookmaker and was
involved in match-fixing. Badruzaman, the lawyer for Kamran's father-in-
law, said that the defamation notice had been dispatched to Haider's home
address on Monday evening. "My client is a well reputed businessman and
he will not tolerate such allegations. Haider now has to either produce
evidence to back his allegations or make a public apology or face legal
action," he said. The lawyer said his client had served a Rs 100 million
defamation suit on the former Pakistan keeper.
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Irate with Cricket Australia CEO James Sutherland for stating that Pakistan
was not doing enough to prevent spot-fixing, the PCB has written to the ICC
asking the governing body to take strong note of his comments. A PCB official
said the letter had been dispatched to the ICC as Sutherland's statement gave
a very negative impression about Pakistan cricket and amounted to slander.
"Sutherland is the serving chief executive of Cricket Australia and basically
his statement is a violation of the ICC member board's code," the official
said. Sutherland recently said the spot-fixing scandal in Britain last year
would not have happened if the Pakistan Cricket Board had implemented the
recommendations of the Justice (retd) Qayyum report into corruption in the
1990s.
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Fined in a match-fixing inquiry 11 years ago, former Pakistan Test cricketer
and umpire Akram Raza has been arrested along with six alleged bookies, who
were taking bets on the ongoing Indian Premier League. "We arrested seven men
from a plaza in Liberty area in Gulberg today and one of them has been
identified as Akram Raza a former Pakistan player," a senior police officer
at the Gulberg police station said. He said the police got a tip off that a
gang of known bookmakers was taking bets on the IPL in the liberty area and
conducted the raid.
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New Zealand's Adam Parore conquered Mount Everest in May. Now, another
cricketer is set to take on a different colossus. England's Michael Vaughan
will trek some part of the Great Wall of China in September, with wife
Nicola – who came up with the idea, according to the BBC website – and
about 20 buddies for company. The trek, which is for charity, will take
seven days. The group will follow the Huangyaguan Hills, go northwest of
Beijing through the mountains, and up Heaven’s Ladder – a steep climb of
over 200 steps.
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Arran Brindle, a woman, playing in the ECB’s Lincolnshire men’s premier
league scored 128 runs and helped club, Louth CC, beat Market Deeping CC,
by 72 runs. It is reported that this may be the first time ever a woman
scores a century playing in a men's league.
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The match between South Wiltshire and Hampshire Academy was stopped for
20 minutes when a member of the public who believed there was an escaped
white tiger hiding in a field near Hedge End. Police was called in and it was
found that the "animal" was a stuffed toy.
Comment: Instead of rain stopped play, it may be written "stuffed tiger
stopped play" in the scoreboard.
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The veteran BBC Wales commentator Edward Bevan felt the full force of
Peter Trego’s 59-ball century for Somerset against Glamorgan at Taunton
on Monday, when one of the batsman’s six sixes smashed through the
commentary box window and struck him in the small of the back. Bevan,
who was on air at the time, had just enough time to say: “It’s coming up
towards us, is it going to hit us?” before the sound of smashing glass
confirmed his fears. There followed several seconds of silence before
Bevan’s co-commentator, Steve James, took over the microphone. It was
the third time in his long career that Bevan’s commentary stint had been
interrupted in such a manner, but the first time outside of Cardiff. "It hit me
on the back and I was quite shaken for a while," he told the BBC, after
briefly losing sight of the ball. "There's a bruise there this morning - in fact
I couldn't carry on.”
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Source: Various web and print media
EAP region holds cricket administration course
Japan recorded its sole win in the recently concluded 2011 ICC EAP Under 19
Cricket Trophy held in Brisbane, Australia against Fiji U19 team. Japan U19 lost
all its other engagements against Vanuatu, PNG and Indonesia.
PNG clinch Arafura Games title
Representatives from ICC Member countries from across the EAP region have
attended a Cricket Administrator Program (CAP) course Papua New Guinea has
captured the Arafura Games Twenty20 cricket title in Darwin, Australia after
defeating Cricket Australia's Indigenous Development Squad by ten wickets.
Australia's side was bowled out for 83 all out, before Papua New Guinea reached
its target after just nine overs. The Arafura Games is a week-long multi-sport
event which takes place every two years.
Results as of March 31:
There is no change in rankings this month. Here is the latest top 10 (last
month's ranking in brackets):
1 Al Karam (4)
2 Lalazar (1)
3 Adore (5)
4 I Engineers (6)
5 YC&AC (11)
6 P Foleys(12)
7 C Sharks (13)
8 Wyverns (8)
9 S Kytes(9)
9 Serendib(7)
10 T Wombats(3)
See the full list here.
We encourage all teams to send us your result statistics regularly so that your team's rankings remain as accurate as possible. We are in a position to obtain the results of the official tournament matches on our own but we are looking for the results of the friendly matches.
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Best of the Web
Collision course - Ricky Ponting angry with Steven Smith.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
Note: Beginning the Issue #39 (May 6, '04), we bring you some interesting snippets from the cricket world, to celebrate the fourth anniversary this Newsletter and first anniversary of our popular "Trivial Facts" series. The same will be published on the front page of our website too.
"Tendulkar uses a sniper rifle. Viv Richards walked over to his victim and clubbed him on the head, repeatedly. - A Cricinfo writer compares the batting styles of the two great batsmen.
Cricket has been discovered by shepherds in England who started playing the early forms of cricket sometime in the 17th century. Later cricket was played in front of a wicket-gate - which led to the term "wickets"
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