da realsbet： The Cricket Association of Bengal has decided to help the formeropener of the state Pulin Mitra
Staff and Agencies22-Jun-2001* CAB promises help to indigent cricketerThe Cricket Association of Bengal has decided to help the formeropener of the state Pulin Mitra. The latter has been living in povertyfor the last few years. At present, he can just about raise enoughmoney to have one meal a day.Talking to reporters on Thursday, the joint secretary of the CABDebdas Bannerjee said, "Mr. Mitra had applied to us for somefinancial aid. The application had been misplaced. However, we haverecovered it and we will do everything possible to provide him with acomfortable life. We have already contacted him and have asked him tosend in another application. The moment we receive it we will granthim Rs 7,500 from the Players Benevolent fund."Bannerjee also stated that the CAB would take care of the medicalexpenses of Mitra. "We have a Mediclaim Insurance Policy for allformer cricketers of the state. Somehow, his name has slipped fromthat list. We will include him in that policy shortly."* ICC team leaves for Delhi to track down Mukesh GuptaA two-member team of ICC’s anti-corruption unit has left for New Delhito track down bookmaker Mukesh Gupta and obtain a formal testimonyfrom him. The team comprises Geff Rees and Alan Hawkins and is”expected to be in India for several days”, a spokesman of ICC toldPTI in London on Thursday. Gupta has been served with an ultimatum tosubstantiate charges that he offered or paid nine non-Indian playersmoney for information by July 1.The deposition of Gupta, a key witness in the CBI probe on betting andmatch fixing in cricket, is crucial for substantiation of chargesagainst international cricketers including England’s stand-in skipperAlec Stewart and West Indies star batsman Brian Lara.The ACU chief Sir Paul Condon had stated at a meeting of the game’sgoverning body in London on Monday that Gupta had been given adeadline till July 1 to become an approver in the worst ever scandalto have rocked the sport. If Gupta failed to cooperate, the chargesthat he paid money to Stewart, Lara and others for match relatedinformation, might be dropped, Condon has hinted.* Tendulkar gets prize for fastest century in Ranji TrophyIndian batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar was awarded a special prizefor the fastest century in the Ranji Trophy last season at a meetingof all the selection committees of the Mumbai Cricket Association(MCA) held in Mumbai on Wednesday.Talented young opening batsman, Vinayak Mane, was awarded as manythree prizes including the SV Rajadyaksha Trophy for scoring thehighest number of runs in the Ranji Trophy for 2000-2001, a MCArelease said on Thursday. The other two awards Mane got were theShantibai Seth Trophy for being adjudged the best junior cricketer ofthe season and the LP Jai award for being choosen the best under-19cricketer, the release adds.Tendulkar’s Indian teammates wicketkeeper Sameer Dighe and leg spinnerSairaj Bahutule bagged the Justice Tendolkar Trophy for the being thebest senior cricketer of the year and the Shavak Paghdiwalla Trophy,for the highest number of wickets in the Ranji Trophy, respectively.Others who were awarded prizes were Wasim Jaffer (Dattu Phadkaraward), Uday Karkera (B Banerjee award for being the best fast bowlerin under-19 section), Arif Sunasara (best under-16 cricketer), ParagMadkaikar (Kumar MV Dabhir award) Sagar Pawar (SS Ragnekar award inunder-14 section) and Kunal More (in under-22 section).* TNCA elections on June 30It’s election time again for the Tamil Nadu Cricket Association andthe campaign is hotting up. And while AC Muthiah is assured of reelection as another term as president, there are elections almostright down the list for all other posts. The elections will be heldalong with the annual general meeting of the TNCA at the S SriramanHall at the MA Chidambaram stadium on Saturday, June 30. The AGM willbe preceded by the TNCA annual day on June 29 when the awards for the2000-2001 season will be given.The following are the candidates for the various posts:Vice Presidents (City) (4 posts): J Devarajan, N Kanniah, KM Mammen,VA Parthasarathy, U Prabhakar, U Prabhakar Rao, A Vellayan and NVenkatramaniVice Presidents (Districts) (2 posts): D Lakshmi Narayanaswami and NSrinivasanSecretary (1 post): Ashok Kumbhat, TR Kannan, G Srinivasan and ASVenkateswaranJoint secretary (1 post): S Kesavan and SE Shankar Rao,Asst Secretary (1 post): KC Sampath KumarTreasurer (1 post): G Srinivasan and CR VijayaraghavanExecutive Committee Members (City) (9 posts): VP Narasimhan, RVRadhakrishnan, L Sivaramakrishnan, GC Dangi, A Srinivasan, SLN Mani,KRK Namdev, KS Viswanathan, PP Swathy, R Chandrasekhran, KKRaghunathan, Victor Fernandez, D Sivanandam, K Murali, G Natarajan andK MohanExecutive Committee Members (Districts) (5 posts): KS Srinivasan(Dharmapuri), Muthukamaraj (Nagapattinam), C Mareeswaran(Ramanathapuram) S Ramanan (Villupuram), R Thivaprahasam(Virudhunagar)