da wazamba： The Asian Cricket Council, in its AGM held in London earlier thisweek, named Saber Hossain Chowdhury as its President Elect
Staff and Agencies24-Jun-2001* Chowdhury is new Asian Cricket Council PresidentThe Asian Cricket Council, in its AGM held in London earlier thisweek, named Saber Hossain Chowdhury as its President Elect. In orderto revamp the ACC and equip and empower it with the necessarystructure and resource to enable it to respond effectively to thevarious challenges that it faces over the coming years, the AGM alsodecided to put a Governance Structure in place within the ACC.Ehsan Mani has been given the responsibility to draft appropriatedocumentation in this regard and it is envisaged that the newGovernance Structure which will include a full time and permanentSecretariat for the ACC will be functional from April 1, 2002.The unanimous decision of the AGM to elect Chowdhury effectively meansthat he will become the first President of the ACC to work under thenew and revamped structure. Chowdhury will take over as ACC Presidentduring its next AGM in 2002.* Sanjeev Chawla wanted in India despite being let off in LondonLondon-based Indian businessman Sanjeev Chawla, recently let off byScotland Yard in connection with match-fixing allegations, will beprosecuted in India and police have got sufficient evidence to nailhim, a top Delhi Police official said in New Delhi on Friday.Expressing surprise over the London Police’s decision to releaseChawla despite receiving letters rogatory seeking his extradition toIndia, Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) KK Paul told PTI, “Chawlais wanted in a case here and we have sufficient evidence to prosecutehim.”Chawla, whose telephone conversations with former South Africa captainHansie Cronje Delhi Police claimed to have on tapes which blew the lidon the match-fixing scandal last year, was released by the Serious andOrganised Crime Squad of London Police on grounds of having”insufficient evidence to provide realistic prospects of conviction”.Paul said if Scotland Yard no longer wanted Chawla, “they can deporthim to India as the letters rogatory is already with them. We areinvestigating the Cronje-Chawla case. It is registered here in Delhi,”the Crime Branch chief said.* North Zone team for inter-academy tournamentKuldeep Rawat will lead the North Zone National Cricket Academy teamin the inter-academy tournament to be held in Bangalore from June 28to July 2.The other members of the team are: Gaurav Gupta (vice captain), RahulArora, Paras Dogra, Sumit Sharma, Gaurav Malhotra, Abhinav Bali, VivekKhurana, Kunal Lal, Abhishek Sharma, Himanshu Khullar, Ankul Jund andDeepak Joon.A four member committee consisting of Yashpal Sharma, Surinder Khanna,Chetan Sharma and Rajinder Amarnath selected a 13-member team toparticipate in the five day tournament. Six sides – the five zonalacademies and a Combined team – will vie for honours in the tournamentto be played on a group league basis. The teams will be divided intotwo groups and the group champions will meet in the final on July 2.* Joshi, Prabhudesai get Anandji Dossa awardsSheer passion and a commitment to serve the sport has rewarded twocricket scorers. Deepak Joshi and Rupesh Prabhudesai have bagged theAnandji Dossa award, instituted by the Association of CricketStatisticians and Scorers of India (ACSSI), for the best scorers ofthe year 1999-2000 and 2000-2001 respectively.The gold plated trophies would be presented to the two at theassociation’s AGM to be held in Mumbai in September, an ACSSI releasesaid on Saturday. Anandji Dossa is regarded as a doyen among Indiancricket statisticians.