Indian news round-up

The Board of Control for Cricket In India Technical Committee, headed by former Indian captain Sunil Gavaskar, met in Pune on Tuesday to deliberate on the irregularities existing in the Duckworth-Lewis rain rule for the one dayers.

The committee deliberated for nearly two hours over the new rules framed by the Kerala statistician Jayandra. The convenor of the BCCI Technical Committee, JY Lele, said that the set of rules framed by Jayendra is to be circulated to all the umpires in the country and added that the same would also be the subject of discussion during the umpires' seminar, scheduled to be held in September.

Lele said that the revised set of rules would then be sent to the International Cricket Council which will in turn adopt the new format of calculation for the limited overs games.

Former Indian off spinner and secretary of the Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA) Shivlal Yadav has said that India Cements would be the official sponsors of the Moin-ud-Dowla Gold Cup and the local league championship for the next three years.

Speaking to the press in Hyderabad, Yadav said that the sponsors have also increased the sponsorship amount to Rs 15 lakhs from the existing Rs 12 Lakhs. Yadav also revealed that the Moin-ud-Dowla tournament would now be played on a league cum knock-out basis and that all the matches would be played on a 50 overs a side basis and on turf wickets.

Yadav revealed that the HCA has requested the BCCI to name the All India under-14 tournament, which is to be conducted for the first time this year, after the late ML Jaisimha.

The secretary of the Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA) Shivlal Yadav has said that the ailing former Hyderabad Ranji Trophy cricketer Eddie Aibara has been awarded a financial aid of Rs 25,000 from the Board of Control for Cricket in India.

The 87-year-old Aibara was admitted into the Intensive Care Unit of the Mediciti hospital in Hyderabad on May 6 with heart and kidney ailments and at the behest of the HCA, the BCCI have made the aid.

Aibara is the lone surviving member of the Hyderabad Ranji team of 1937-38 which won the trophy for the first time. After his playing years were over, he had dedicated himself to the game as a coach. Some of the Indian cricketing stalwarts like Sunil Gavaskar and ML Jaisimha were at some point or the other coached by Aibara.