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Daily Roundup (May-04-2007)
BCCI is making some changes in the Players Contract, regarding remuniration. The BCCI's latest proposal stipulates a base match fee of Rs. 1.5 lakh [US$ 3700 approx] per ODI and Rs. 2.5 lakh per Test, up from the Rs 1 lakh [US$ 2500 approx] and Rs 2 lakh, respectively, announced after the last working committee meeting and almost the same as under the previous contracts. Moreover, it has not reduced the win and draw bonuses put forward in the new performance-related payment scheme.
Another significant difference is that the BCCI has widened its net of contracted players, currently offering to sign up 22 players with a possibility of others being offered contracts in the future. Also, now BCCI is saying that players can sign the contracts after returning from Bangladesh tour.Shah also felt that if the players have some reservations then it would not be possible for them to sign the contracts before they leave for Dhaka.
"They can sign the contracts after returning from the tour of Bangladesh (May 7-29)," he said. And while we are discussing the BCCI, let me give you one more detail of how it works.Team India members did not get their payment since the Champions Trophy in October last year. Since then, the cricketers toured South Africa, played home series against West Indies and Sri Lanka before flying to the West Indies for the World Cup without being paid.
BCCI vice-president Rajeev Shukla sought to play it down and said arrears would be cleared once the contracts are signed by the cricketers. Well, well.... such are the ways of BCCI.
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John Buchanan turns down an indirect offer to coach the Indian team."There was some indirect contact from India," Buchanan said in the Sydney Morning Herald. "But at the moment I am looking for new challenges as a mentor coach, and speaking to Cricket Australia and the Australian Sports Commission about that, as well as a move into corporate coaching." Meanwhile Niranjan Shah is unaware that such an offer was ever made to Buchanan."I don't know anything about any such approach having been made. This is the first time I am hearing about it," Shah said. ----------
Atul Sondhi, on The HT, gives us 9 reasons why Shastri will be a good coach for the Indian Team. Some may find a few of the reasons hillarious, but read on and enjoy.
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Mid-Day tells us what conditions to expect in Bangladesh and how Indian team plans to tackle them.Members of Team India, who are at the conditioning camp for the Bangladesh tour, are putting up with extreme conditions in Kolkata. Some trainees like Ranadeb Bose and Munaf Patel fainted or vomited due to the heat.
His predecessor Andrew Leipus predicts tough times. “It’s all about matching the levels of hydration and dehydration,” said Leipus, whose last tour with the Indian team was in Bangladesh in 2004.
This can be avoided by making the warm-up as efficient as possible. “Just do what you have to do to tune up and get inside,” is Leipus’s advice. ----------
Here is an incident that will surprise you. VRV Singh hit a groundsman bang on the knee, while doing fielding practice.The incident occurred when the Indian cricketers were practising running between the wickets and VRV Singh was fielding.
As the ball struck him, Swain, who was working on the centre wicket, fell and was seen writhing in pain. Now, this is no laughing matter, but I am surprised that our players actually hit something while throwing the ball. I'm not sure where VRV intended to throw the ball, but more often than not, throws of our players miss just about everything on the ground. I hope the groundsman will recover completely from this mishap and CAB or BCCI will take care of his medical expenses related to this injury. After all, he was injured on the job.
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