Honour Vindicated; Legal Stumps Drawn
BOMBAY, Sun. (1 p.m.)—The Indian Cricket Control Board has dropped all charges against the Indian test captain, Lala Amarnath, who was suspended in April from representative cricket for “continued misbehaviour and breach of discipline” towards the board. The board held all proceedings against Amarnath were ultra vires, since no proper motives for the charges were given and Amarnath was not heard by the board on the issue. Mr Niren Day, representative of the Scuth Punjab Cricket Association, assured the board that the defamation suit filed against the board’s president (Mr A. de Mello) by Amarnath would be withdrawn. N.Z. Team Invited BOMBAY, Sun. (2 p.m.).—V. J. Merchant, India’s leading batsman, lias been selected to captain the Indian XI for the series of five unofficial tests against an Empire cricket team which will tour India later this year. The Indian Cricket Board of Control decided at the annual meeting today to invite New Zealand to tour India in 1950-51.
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Northern Advocate, 1 August 1949, Page 5
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