The intervening president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India, Sunil Gavaskar emphasized on the conspicuousness of executing the game in accordance with the MCC Spirit of Cricket by enchanting ‘play fair, play hard’ in the interim of the meeting of Coaches and Captains before the seventh edition of the Indian Premier League which has started in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday already.
Gavaskar, who got assigned as the provisional president of the BCCI for the issues related to the IPL by the honorable Supreme Court, has conducted the meeting of Captains and Coaches on Tuesday.
“Sunil Gavaskar, Interim President, BCCI-IPL, conducted the pre-IPL season Captains & Coaches meeting, on Tuesday, 15 April 2014. He accentuated to the captains, the significance of their sides playing the game in accordance with the MCC Spirit of Cricket – Play hard, Play fair.” A release from BCCI stated.
“He also sermonized their position as epitomes for adherents of the game and other cricketers, as they constructed their relevant careers. He augmented the core message that honesty was non-assignable.” BCCI Secretary Sanjay Patil stated in a release on Wednesday.
“All the while the day, he also confronted with former and recently retired cricketers – VVS Laxman, Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid and Anil Kumble – and desired their views on several issues. Sourav Ganguly was lamentably unavailable, as he was touring.” He added.
The seventh season of the Indian Premier League got started with the match between the defending champion Mumbai Indians and the champion of the 2012 season Kolkata Knight Riders at the Sheikh Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi yester night.
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has organized the first leg of the cash-rich Twenty20 tournament from April 16 to 30 because of the safety entanglement as there is a clash of the dates of the IPL with that of the general election in India.
However, the competition is going to hark back to India on May 2 after getting the guarantee of safety in the states where the election would be ended by that time.