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U-15 cricket team returns
NEW DELHI: An India under-15 cricket team, under the banner of the School Games Federation of India SGFI, returned home a couple of days ago, as quietly as it had left for its 25-day tour of England and Wales.
The 14-member team drew two Test8217; matches of the three-Test series and lost one. They, however, won both their one-day games against the England Under-15 team.
Book released
NEW DELHI: A comprehensive compilation on Indian sportspersons, past and present, titled Great Indian Players was today released by hockey Olympian Ashok Kumar at a simple function here. The book is priced Rs 250 and a Hindi edition is due soon.
Team on Sept 2
CHENNAI: Chairman of the Selection Committee of the Board Of Control for Cricket in India BCCI Kishen Rungta today confirmed that the selection of the teams for the Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia and the Sahara Cup competition at Toronto in Canada, would be announced here on Sept 2.
Scindia elected
INDORE: Former BCCI president Madhavrao Scindia has been unanimously elected as the president of Madhya Pradesh Cricket Association for the eighth time today. The general body meeting held here unanimously authorised Scindia to nominate the other office bearers of the association.
ODI for charity
GUWAHATI: A One-day benefit international cricket match between India XI and a foreign team for flood victims would be held here soon. This decision was taken today at the executive committee meeting of the Assam Cricket Association ACA chaired by its president Prafulla Kumar Mahanta.
BCCI meeting
JAIPUR: A special Annual General Body Meeting of the Board of Control for Cricket in India BCCI will have to approve the recommendations of the rules commitee to have a three-member selection committee instead of existing five members, said BCCI president Raj Singh Dungarpur today.
