Indian news round-up

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) three member code of conduct committee will meet in Mumbai on July 24 to draft the code for the Indian players and the BCCI officials.

The code of conduct committee comprises Tamil Nadu Cricket Association secretary Ashok Kumbhat, Shashank Manohar of the Vidharba Cricket Association and Subba Rao of the Andhra Cricket Association. The commission was set up by the BCCI in the aftermath of the match fixing scandal.

The Indian Under-15 team for the Costcutter World Cricket Challenge 2000 to be held in England from July 30 to August 10 is to be picked at Bangalore July 20 after selection trials.

The list of 21 probables includes the 14-member Indian Under-15 team which won the ACC Championships in Malaysia recently. The other seven players added in the list are Arvind Mann (Rajasthan), Parthiv Patel (Gujarat), Shankar Saini (Haryana), Srinivas Pai (Hyderabad), Guarav Diman (Karnataka), Yusuf Pathan (Baroda) and Vasu Devdas (Tamil Nadu).

The probables: Subhash Dixit (Uttar Pradesh), Mrigen Talukdar (Assam), Abhinav Kumar (Hyderabad), Tirupati Ambati Rayadu (Hyderabad), Ashraf Ali (Uttar Pradesh), Swapnaj Thakur (Mumbai), Palash Das (Assam), Sushil Kumar (Delhi), Nikhil Rathod (Saurashtra), Rajesh Banik (Tripura), Irfan Pathan (Baroda), Panav Raju (Andhra Pradesh), Navin Chowdhary (Uttar Pradesh), Tushar Sahu (Tripura), Arvind Mann (Rajasthan), Parthiv Patel (Gujarat), Shankar Saini (Haryana), Srinivas Pai (Hyderabad), Gaurav Dhiman (Karnataka), Yusuf Pathan (Baroda) and Vasu Devdas (Tamil Nadu).

Former Indian wicketkeeper Sadanand Viswanath is to coach the Guwahati Cricket Coaching Centre (GCCC) trainees at the Nehru Stadium in Guwahati from September 6 to 25. The GCCC is organising the camp for their trainees in an effort to prepare them for the forthcoming domestic season.

Viswanath is the second international cricketer to impart training in Guwahati after Eknath Solkar, who conducted a coaching camp for the State level cricketers during the 1994-45 season.

Indian middle order batsman Rahul Dravid scored a patient 55 runs of 149 balls to help Kent take a 76-run lead over Derbyshire as bad light stopped play on the second day of the PPP Healthcare County Championship Division One match at Derby on Thursday.

Resuming at 27 for 1, Dravid and Robert Key (83) added 140 runs for the second wicket before Dravid was caught behind by Mathew Krikken off Dominic Cork. Then captain Mathew Fleming scored 47 runs to help Kent to a respectable 257 for the loss of eight wickets in their first innings.

Meanwhile, Leicestershire leg spinner Anil Kumble picked up four wickets for 32 runs as Durham slumped from 107 for three to 171 all out after lunch at Leicester. Kumble and Ormond tormented Durham's middle and lower to pick up seven wickets while giving away only 64 runs in the bargain. The third match of the day featuring Lancashire and Somerset saw the Indian captain Sourav Ganguly give away 57 runs off his 12 overs without any success as Somerset piled up 370 runs for the loss of six wickets.