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  • Dilip Vengsarkar and Shubhangi Kulkarni to constitute Indian Cricketers’ Affiliation on BCCI Apex Council

    Dilip Vengsarkar defeated outgoing ICA president Ashok Malhotra, while Shubhangi Kulkarni used to be elected unopposed as the feminine ICA consultant at the BCCI Apex Council.

    New Delhi ,UPDATED: Oct 30, 2022 07:41 IST

    Dilip Vengsarkar replaces Ashok Malhotra as ICA consultant. (PTI Photograph)

    By way of India Lately Internet Table: Former India captains Dilip Vengsarkar and Shubhangi Kulkarni were elected to constitute Indian Cricketers’ Affiliation (ICA) at the BCCI Apex Council.

    Kulkarni used to be elected unopposed as the feminine ICA consultant at the BCCI Apex Council, while Vengsarkar defeated outgoing ICA president and previous India cricketer Ashok Malhotra. Within the e-voting held over 3 days, Vengsarkar gained 402 votes in comparison to Malhotra’s 230.

    Anshuman Gaekwad and Shantha Rangaswamy had been the primary ever ICA representatives within the BCCI with their tenure from October 2019 to October 2022. The Lodha reforms ended in the inclusion of ICA representatives at the BCCI Apex Council.

    In the meantime, former India spinner Pragyan Ojha retained his position at the IPL Governing Council. He defeated Vijay Mohan Raj through 396 to 234 votes. Vengsarkar, 66, comes with administrative enjoy, having served because the director of the Nationwide Cricket Academy and used to be additionally a primary selector of the nationwide workforce.

    “The position isn’t very other to what I’ve executed earlier than (in sports activities management). I need thank to all of the former cricketers who voted for me. We’re but to satisfy with the board officers however we will be able to unquestionably paintings for clean coordination between ICA and BCCI,” Vengsarkar informed PTI.

    Alternatively, Kulkarni served as secretary of the Girls’s Cricket Affiliation of India earlier than girls’s cricket used to be introduced underneath the BCCI in 2006. Kulkarani’s predecessor and previous India captain Rangaswamy welcomed her inclusion at the BCCI Apex Council.

    “She is among the easiest directors we now have noticed in girls’s cricket. She performed a key position in getting girls’s cricket into the BCCI fold. I’m positive she is going to do a fantastic task in her new position,” stated Rangaswamy.

    Outgoing male consultant Gaekwad used to be elected unopposed because the ICA president. Rangaswamy and Yajurvindra Singh had been elected as two ICA member representatives and can function administrators at the ICA board. Hitesh Majumdar and V Krishnaswamy had been elected ICA secretary and treasurer respectively.

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  • Umran Malik will have to be in T20 Global Cup workforce, feels Vengsarkar

    Inspired through his uncooked tempo, former India skipper Dilip Vengsarkar feels rookie pacer Umran Malik will have to board the flight to Australia for this 12 months’s T20 Global Cup.

    “I am hoping so as a result of he (Umran) is an excessively thrilling skill. He did neatly within the IPL and he merits an opportunity as he regarded the most productive bowler within the layout. I am hoping he’s within the airplane and I’m positive he’s going to do neatly if given a chance,” Vengsarkar instructed journalists right here on Saturday.

    The T20 Global Cup is ready to be performed in Australia in October-November later this 12 months.

    “He (Umran) is younger and raring to move. You will have to give a chance to any individual who’s in shape. He’s younger, prepared to play and hungry for good fortune,” added the previous nationwide chairman of selectors.

    Umran had picked up 22 wickets in 14 video games for Sunrisers Hyderabad within the IPL this 12 months however it’s his talent to bowl persistently at 95 miles in line with hour that has stuck the creativeness of all.

    He used to be due to this fact rewarded for his consistency through incomes his maiden nationwide call-up for the T20 sequence towards South Africa however didn’t get a sport.

    He has additionally been decided on for the T20 sequence towards Eire, starting off on Sunday and it continues to be observed whether or not he will get to make his India debut.

    Vengsarkar’s 1983 Global Cup-winning teammate and previous India all-rounder Roger Binny additionally felt that Umran will have to be given an opportunity straightaway in all 3 codecs.

    “There’s undoubtedly going to be a larger bunch of rapid bowlers coming thru now. And he (Umran) will have to be given an opportunity straightaway as a result of he has proved that he’s fast and should you noticed him bowl probably the most yorkers within the IPL that used to be brute drive. So you can not stay a teen out for that lengthy,” Binny mentioned.

    “Neatly, I’m really not shocked that anyone, who’s coming to the scene (and bowling over 150 kmph), as a result of now we have numerous folks (bowling) across the 140-142 house for the final six-seven years and particularly within the IPL. I’m really not shocked (through the sheer tempo of Umran).” The duo used to be talking at the sidelines of the book-launch of ‘The 1983 Global Cup Opus’

    Vengsarkar backs Virat Kohli to come back just right in England Check

    Vengsarkar, who decided on Virat Kohli for the primary time within the nationwide workforce, subsidized the previous skipper, who has been enduring a chronic lean patch, to come back just right towards England.

    “I’m positive as a result of he (Kohli) is a global elegance participant. He’s executed neatly and is so are compatible. He’s simply now not scoring in T20s however I feel he’ll come again robust, particularly within the Check in England. He and Rohit Sharma, I be expecting large runs in England,” mentioned Vengsarkar.

    Vengsarkar additionally hailed Hardik Pandya for his robust comeback.

    “The way in which he (Hardik) got here again from harm is excellent. He will have to have labored very onerous on his health. He did rather well within the IPL and as a captain he did neatly. (He’s a) very superb all-rounder.” “He led from the entrance. He guided the workforce in his first primary event as captain (of Gujarat Titans). An all-rounder performs a very powerful position in any workforce,” he mentioned.

    Hardik led the Gujarat Titans to their maiden IPL name and performed a key position through accumulating 487 runs and choosing up 8 wickets. He then carried on his shape into the T20 sequence towards South Africa.