India will not send teams to Asian Games
June 2, 2010, Wednesday
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INDIA will not be sending cricket teams to the Asian Games in November, despite being a key driver in getting the sport included on the program in China.
Ratnakar Shetty, a top official with the Board Of Control For Cricket In India, cited prior international commitments for India skipping the men's and women's cricket events at the Games in Guangzhou, China, from November 12-27.
Shetty said yesterday that the BCCI had already informed organizers in China.
Asia's other test-ranked nations - Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh - are likely to send teams to the Games. A dozen other teams entered qualifying for three spots in the tournament.
India will be hosting New Zealand for three tests and five one-day internationals in November.
The Olympic Council of Asia announced after its General Assembly meeting last May that cricket would be among five sports making a debut on the program for the 16th edition of the Games.
At the time, OCA president Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah described India and Pakistan as "the drivers" for getting cricket included on the program for the first time and vowed that their best teams would enter.
Meanwhile, India cricket will comply with the World Anti-Doping Agency's whereabouts rule for players.
"We will have talks with the WADA officials" on the issue, Shetty said yesterday.
Indian cricketers last year refused to meet a WADA deadline to comply to the rule, saying it intruded on their privacy and was a potential security risk.
In October, the International Cricket Council suspended the clause until the Indian players' concerns were sorted out.
The controversial whereabouts rule requires elite athletes to make themselves available for out-of-competition testing for one hour a day for all 365 days in a year.
BCCI president Shashank Manohar said last year that India was committed to ensuring cricket was a drug-free sport and would sort out the issue amicably with the ICC.
Ratnakar Shetty, a top official with the Board Of Control For Cricket In India, cited prior international commitments for India skipping the men's and women's cricket events at the Games in Guangzhou, China, from November 12-27.
Shetty said yesterday that the BCCI had already informed organizers in China.
Asia's other test-ranked nations - Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh - are likely to send teams to the Games. A dozen other teams entered qualifying for three spots in the tournament.
India will be hosting New Zealand for three tests and five one-day internationals in November.
The Olympic Council of Asia announced after its General Assembly meeting last May that cricket would be among five sports making a debut on the program for the 16th edition of the Games.
At the time, OCA president Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah described India and Pakistan as "the drivers" for getting cricket included on the program for the first time and vowed that their best teams would enter.
Meanwhile, India cricket will comply with the World Anti-Doping Agency's whereabouts rule for players.
"We will have talks with the WADA officials" on the issue, Shetty said yesterday.
Indian cricketers last year refused to meet a WADA deadline to comply to the rule, saying it intruded on their privacy and was a potential security risk.
In October, the International Cricket Council suspended the clause until the Indian players' concerns were sorted out.
The controversial whereabouts rule requires elite athletes to make themselves available for out-of-competition testing for one hour a day for all 365 days in a year.
BCCI president Shashank Manohar said last year that India was committed to ensuring cricket was a drug-free sport and would sort out the issue amicably with the ICC.
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