Indians set deadline
NZPA-Reuter Madras Indian cricket authorities, having ignored England’s deadline regarding the scheduled tour of India, yesterday set a deadline of their own for England to decide if it wants the tour to go ahead. They said England must decide by October 10 if the tour would go ahead. The secretary of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (8.0.C.1.), Ranbir Singh, said yesterday that the fate of the tour now depended entirely on England’s Test and County Cricket Board (T.C.C.8.). India ignored an October 3 deadline the T.C.C.B. set for New Delhi to reconsider its decision not to grant visas to eight England players, including the captain, Graham Gooch, because of their links with South Africa. “It is up to the T.C.C.B.
to cancel the tour,” Mr Singh said on Monday. Officials have repeatedly said there would be no change to its policy of not granting visas to sportsmen with South African connections. There has been little doubt since the visa ruling that the tour will have to be cancelled. The issue now is which country will pick up the tab for any expenses. Mr Singh said the Indian deadline had been sent to the T.C.C.B. in a message but he declined to discuss its contents further. ® India has picked the all-rounder, Ravi Shastri, as vice-captain for its 14man squad in the Champions Cup in Sharjah and the Asia Cup in Dhaka later this month. The captain, Dilip Vengsarkar, was also named to head the
national side in the first test against New Zealand in Bangalore from November 12 to 17. The cup squad includes spinners Narendra Hirwani, Maninder Singh and Arshad Ayub and the 23-year-old medium pace bowler, Rashid Patel, who made his first-class debut in 1985. Mohinder Amarnath, the hero of India’s World Cup victory in 1983, will figure in the familiar batting line-up comprising Vengsarkar, Krishnamachari Srikkanth and Mohammed Azharuddin. The squad: Dilip Vengsarkar (captain), Ravi Shastri, Krishnamachari Srikkanth, Navjot Sidhu, Mohinder Amarnath, Mohammed Azharuddin, Kapil Dev, Kiran More, Chamdrakant Pandit, Arshad Ayub, Narendra Hirwani, Maninder Singh, Sanjeev Sharma and Rashid Patel.
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