Gavaskar resigns from NCA

Former India cricket captain and batting legend Sunil Gavaskar today resigned as a member and adviser of the National Cricket Academy (NCA) after a tiff with its chairman Raj Singh Dungarpur in Mumbai yesterday.

The differences cropped up between the two over Gavaskar's column in a tabloid recently where the former skipper had said that the NCA team should not have got a three-day game against the visiting Zimbabweans at Indore in their tour opener, according to an NCA member today.

Reacting to Gavaskar's statement, Dungarpur said in an interview to the same tabloid, published yesterday, that "one gentleman being a member of NCA said the Academy boys should not have been given a game against Zimbabwe. Such people should either resign from the committee, or take it on, or fall in line. You can't run with the hares and hunt with the hounds at the same time," he had said.

"After reading this interview, Gavaskar came over to the Cricket Club of India (CCI) where the NCA committee was meeting and handed over his resignation," the NCA member added.

When contacted over phone, Gavaskar told PTI today that he had indeed resigned from the NCA and said he had not criticised the board as Dungarpur had felt he had but was just making an observation that there are other players who deserve to play a touring side more than the NCA boys.