NEW DELHI: The Australian Cricket Board has once again reiterated that it will not be possible to send their team for the Jawaharlal Nehru Centenary Cricket Tournament to be held in October November this year.
“The members of the team are committed to prior engagement. elsewhere and it is not possible for them to pull out,” an official of the ACB has told the organizers.
Similar is the stand of the West Indies Board, In view of nonparticipation of these two teams the four nation meet will be played on a double leg system. The tournament will start on October 29 and conclude at Calcutta on November 14, No centre however important will be allowed to stage more than one match.
The top two teams will qualify for the final, It will be played at Eden Gardens (Calcutta) which can hold more than one lakh spectators. If the two teams have equal number of points in the second position the team moving into the final will be decided (on the basis of better quotient.
The twelve centres likely to stage the matches re Delhi, Ahmedabad, Gos, Bombay, Madras (rain or no rain it will host the match), Nagpur, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Cuttack or Jaipur Gwalior, Chandigarh and Lucknow.
One umpire from cach participating country will be invited to supervise the matches, May be one or two Indian umpires will be kept as standby.
Article extracted from this publication >> August 11, 1989
