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BCCI responsible for lack of quality spin bowler Maninder |
DHANBAD: Former Test cricketer
Maninder Singh on Wednesday held the BCCI responsible for the lack of quality
spin bowlers in the country.
"BCCI lacks professional approach in
running its National Cricket Academy (NCA) and for that it has failed to produce
a single quality spin bowler so far. Every year 15 to 20 budding talents are
selected for the NCA but no one has been polished properly to click," Maninder
told reporters here.
Former pace bowler B Arun had been selected as
coach for spinners in the Academy while the likes of Erapalli Prasanna, Bishan
Singh Bedi, B S Chandrashekhar and S Venkatraghavan had not been approached,
rued Maninder after attending a spin clinic of Jharkhand State Cricket
Association here.
"Such approach has made the NCA a laughing stock",
he said, claiming BCCI did not like bold people.
Talking about the
snub given to the Pakistani cricketers by the Indian Premier League franchises,
Maninder said, "It is open to the world that relation between the two countries
is not cordial. If no franchisee came out to buy the Pakistani players due to
security reason, it was justified.
"Personally I am sad to miss the
Pakistani cricketers in IPL but a marriage cannot be solemnised when guardians
of two families are not agreed," he quipped.
Maninder criticised the
IPL ban on Ravindra Jadeja and said "Jadeja is a genuine all-rounder. Instead of
encouraging him, he is being demoralised."
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