The two-day meeting of the Asian Cricket Foundation, slated to be heldin Kolkata from July 31, has been postponed, ACF chairman JagmohanDalmiya said in Kolkata on Sunday
Staff and Agencies30-Jul-2001* ACF meeting postponedThe two-day meeting of the Asian Cricket Foundation, slated to be heldin Kolkata from July 31, has been postponed, ACF chairman JagmohanDalmiya said in Kolkata on Sunday. “We have received a letter fromthe ICC’s Development Committee stating it will hold its session inAmsterdam on September 10-11. The letter says that the agenda of themeeting will be given to us after about a week from now,” Dalmiyasaid.Dalmiya said the new dates for the ACF meeting would be fixed afterreceiving the agenda from the ICC.The ACF is scheduled to finalise a panel of Development Officers fromIndia, Pakistan and Sri Lanka for deputing them on coachingassignments to nations like Hong Kong, Nepal, Maldives, Singapore andQatar where the game was still in a nascent stage. It would alsodiscuss other issues pertaining to the development of cricket in theregion.* Nanda Kishore to lead HCA XIA Nanda Kishore will lead the Hyderabad Cricket Association XI in theKSCA Diamond Jubilee tournament for the Coromandel Cement Trophy,currently being played at Bangalore. He will also lead the side in theAll India Buchi Babu invitation tournament in Chennai.Earlier, former Test left arm spinner Venkatapathy Raju was named ascaptain. But he made himself unavailable for the two tournaments.Ramakrishna will replace Raju in the squad.The following is the team: A Nanda Kishore (Captain), Daniel Manohar,Anirudh Singh, N Arjun Yadav, D Vinay Kumar, B Santosh Yadav, NPSingh, M Srinivas, Shivaji Yadav, Mohd Ghouse, AT Rayudu, Indra SekharReddy, Anoop Pai, Ahmed Quadri, Ramakrishna. Former Test player ArshadAyub is the coach while Damodar is the manager.* Andhra Cricket Association office bearersDV Subba Rao and N Venkata Rao were elected president and secretary ofthe Andhra Cricket Association for 2001-2002The following are the other office bearers: Vice Presidents: SLNarayana Row, T Jesudanam, K Pattabhiramaiah, KV Rao and PV Rao.Zonal secretaries: PR Narayanaswami (North), RS Pardhasaradhi(Central) and V Umamaheswar (South). Treasurer: K Pardhasaradhi.The Patron-in-Chief of the ACA is the governor of the state.