Kapil Dev backs his decision to join defunct ICL – Cricket News Update
The World Cup winning captain of India and the former chairman of the breakaway Indian Cricket League (ICL), http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Kapil-Dev-c70234, on Tuesday backed his decision to join the defunct Twenty20 League, saying that he had taken the ICL post intending to promote cricket.
“...if someone gives me a job, I would love to do it, especially when it is for the promotion of the game and when I am not an employee of any other institution,” the legendary Indian all-rounder wrote in the
Hindustan Times.
"There is one common thing in what the board [the BCCI] does and what I did, and that is promoting the game,” the former Indian coach insisted, adding that by accepting the job with ICL he had no intention of hurting anyone.
The 53-year-old former fast bowling great of India was the Chairman of National Cricket Academy when he joined the breakaway Indian Cricket League as its chairman, a move which led to his removal from the NCA.
Last week, the Board of Control for Cricket in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 ratified a one-time benefit payment (approximately Rs 70 crore) to former cricketers, who retired before the 2003-04 season, for their services to the Indian cricket.
Dev, one of the best fast bowling all-rounders produced by Indian cricket, was left out of the list of players who received the one-time monetary benefit out of the profits earned by BCCI from the recently concluded Indian Premier League’s playoffs. It is
believed that Kapil’s association with the defunct ICL led to his exclusion from the list of the beneficiaries.
The former Indian all-rounder, who was named as the Indian Cricketer of the Century by Wisden in 2002, said that not all the cricketers, but those who are contracted with the BCCI and are being paid salaries are accountable to board.
"It [the BCCI] should realise that only those cricketers -- present or former -- who are contracted to it and are paid salaries, like selectors or coaches, are accountable to it," said the former right-arm medium pacer, who played 131 Tests and 225 ODIs
for India during his international career, spanning between 1978-94.
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