saneindian Posted June 23, 2011 Posted June 23, 2011 The Border-Gavaskar scholarship program, under which three promising Indian cricketers would visit Australia's Centre of Excellence (COE) in Brisbane every year, will no longer be offered as the sponsors - the Australia-India council (AIC) - have pulled out of the project. "The Border-Gavaskar scholarship is terminated due to lack of sponsors," Ratnakar Shetty, BCCI's chief administrative officer told DNA. "They (AIC) have informed us and as it is not funded by Cricket Australia and BCCI, no players will be going." The scholarship, which was introduced in 2000, was named in the honour of former India and Australia captains Sunil Gavaskar and Allan Border and was instituted to strengthen ties between the two countries across a range of sectors, including sport. Since then, every year, three young Indian cricketers, nominated by the BCCI, spent six-weeks at the COE. Mohammad Kaif, Shiv Sundar Das and Sridhran Sriram were the first batch of players to receive the scholarship. Other recipients include Gautam Gambhir and Virat Kohli. Abhimanyu Mithun, who is currently part of India's Test squad in the West Indies, Punjab middle-order batsman Mandeep Singh and Madhya Pradesh's Harpreet Singh were the last players to receive the scholarship in 2010. India middle-order batsman Cheteshwar Pujara who received the scholarship in 2007, said the experience had benefited him greatly. "When I went to Australia, they were the No. 1 team," Pujara told Indian Express. "We learnt how one has to approach the game, their preparation was great. You would come across Matthew Hayden and others, who were practicing in other nets. What I learnt was how one has to prepare during practice sessions." Shetty said the cancellation of the scholarship would not affect young cricketers as there were plenty of academies coming up in India. "We have batting, spin bowling, fast bowling and various other camps for youngsters now. We are giving the best of the facilities to our youngsters and there is NCA, which is doing a good job in helping this young lot learn better," he said. Recipients of the scholarship 2000: Mohammad Kaif (UPCA), SS Das (Orissa CA), S Sriram (TNC) 2001: Deepak Chougule (KSCA), Parthiv Patel (Gujarat CA), Vinayak Mane (Mumbai CA) 2002: Gautam Gambhir (DDCA), L Balaji (TNCA), Thilak Naidu (KSCA) 2003: Siddharth Trivedi (Gujarat CA), Udit Patel (KSCA), Raiphi Gomez (Kerala CA) 2004: Shikhar Dhawan (DDCA), Suresh Raina (UPCA), Y Venugopal (Andra CA) 2005: VRV Singh (Harayana CA), RP Singh (UPCA), Fiaz Fazal (Vidarbha CA) 2006: Kshernal Waingankar (Mumbai CA), Gaurav Dhiman (KSCA), Pinal Shah (Baroda CA) 2007: DB Ravi Teja (Hyderabad CA), Cheteshwar Pujara (Saurashtra CA), V Yo Mahesh (Baroda CA) 2008: V Kohli (DDCA), P Sangwan (DDCA), T Srivastava (UPCA) 2009: A Mukund (KSCA), J Patil (Maharashtra CA), B Kumar (UPCA); 2010: A Mithun (KSCA), M Singh (PCA), Harpreet Singh (MPCA) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a loss for the youngsters. As the names highlighted above prove, this does help the players. Wonder why the BCCI, with all its money, cannot fund these scholarships in the absence of sponsors?
Karan114 Posted June 23, 2011 Posted June 23, 2011 Pathetic, absolutely pathetic. One of the few good things done to develop young Indian players has been scrapped using the most laughable of excuses. The BCCI bullies the whole cricket world on account of its money but when it comes to helping young Indian players gain valuable experience away from Asia that can actually help them become better cricketers, suddenly these thugs don't have enough money. ****ing goons.
ganeshran Posted June 23, 2011 Posted June 23, 2011 :WTF: Does BCCI not have the money for doing this. If anything more promising cricketers should be sent overseas to help them develop
EnterTheVoid Posted June 23, 2011 Posted June 23, 2011 ^ The Indian and Australian boards being a bunch of tight @rses.
Sidhoni Posted June 23, 2011 Posted June 23, 2011 ^ The Indian and Australian boards being a bunch of tight @rses. :facepalm: :facepalm: BCCI and CA :finger: :finger:
ganeshran Posted June 23, 2011 Posted June 23, 2011 ^ The Indian and Australian boards being a bunch of tight @rses. Also, BCCI has no excuse of financial shortages. It has tons and tons of money. Its primary function is to develop cricket in India, and unless this is replaced by some better scheme, it is a huge brainfart from BCCI
King Tendulkar Posted June 23, 2011 Posted June 23, 2011 CA should sens players to India on scholarsip instead as we are best team on planet and world champs and test number 1 team. They need to come and learn from us on prepartion, cricket skills and fielding .
kabira Posted June 23, 2011 Posted June 23, 2011 I am sure if they approach Sahara and any other sponsor, they will gladly sponsor it.
Zap_Brannigan Posted June 23, 2011 Posted June 23, 2011 I dont get why we cant send A teams often, esp. when the international team is not playing, to Aus, Eng and SA and telecast those games. Its almost similar to the current WI ODI tour cept for the international badge. I am sure we could find a few sponsors.
ganeshran Posted June 23, 2011 Posted June 23, 2011 CA should sens players to India on scholarsip instead as we are best team on planet and world champs and test number 1 team. They need to come and learn from us on prepartion' date=' cricket skills and fielding .[/quote'] When did we become a top team in fielding?? Our batting is our strength, but players need to pick up on fitness and fielding skills.
King Tendulkar Posted June 23, 2011 Posted June 23, 2011 When did we become a top team in fielding?? Our batting is our strength' date=' but players need to pick up on fitness and fielding skills.[/quote'] :giggle:
Cricket Tragic Posted June 23, 2011 Posted June 23, 2011 CA should sens players to India on scholarsip instead as we are best team on planet and world champs and test number 1 team. They need to come and learn from us on prepartion' date=' cricket skills and fielding .[/quote'] They already do.
EnterTheVoid Posted June 23, 2011 Posted June 23, 2011 Cricket Australia probably dont care, their players are not at a loss. They should still cop some responsibility, after all, it's a joint partnership.
kabira Posted June 23, 2011 Posted June 23, 2011 I dont get why we cant send A teams often' date=' esp. when the international team is not playing, to Aus, Eng and SA and telecast those games. Its almost similar to the current WI ODI tour cept for the international badge. I am sure we could find a few sponsors.[/quote'] but when does Indian team not play. :--D:--D
King Tendulkar Posted June 23, 2011 Posted June 23, 2011 :dontknow: My post was very tongue in cheek, escpecially fielding bit:winky:
tatters Posted June 23, 2011 Posted June 23, 2011 BCCI are the cancer of cricket. They are sub-human scum that is spreading its disease and they must be eradicated immediately.
EnterTheVoid Posted June 23, 2011 Posted June 23, 2011 Yea, these sub human scum found a group of cricketers who won the WC a month ago. How dare they, shame on them.
Recommended Posts
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now