NEW DELHI(PTI): The Board of Control for Cricket in India is contemplating registration of players to check their participation in unauthorized tournaments, sources reported Sept.3.
The board, ‘upset’ over the incidents in London earlier last week during a match between players from India and Pakistan, has put up this: proposal as one of the important items for consideration in its annual general meeting to be held in Gwalior on September 2930.
According to board sources, the proposal, if approved, will require all players wanting to play for India or in Ranji trophy, Duleep trophy and other board organized fixtures, to be registered with it. Once, they register, the sources say, the players will require the board’s permission to participate in no regular events like exhibition, charity and benefit matches.
The need for this step came about after the players went to the supreme court a few years ago accusing the board with interfering with their ‘right to work,’ For the players, who are all categorized as professionals, playing in matches is their ‘right to work.”
The board, after consulting legal opinion, has decided upon the scheme to register the players.
Public opinion has been expressed against the players participating in matches in which incidents insulting to the nation, like burning of the tricolor take place.
Three former India captains, Lala Amamath, Mansur Ali Khan Pataud? and Bishen Singh Bedi, have also gone on record urging steps to prevent recurrence of such incidents.
Article extracted from this publication >> September 10, 1993
