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| If Farooq ruined JKCA, Ansari not interested in reforms? | | Locals not fit to head team, New Delhi man drafted in old-age to do 'Kaya-Kalp' | | Syed Junaid Hashmi
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Oct 17: From Ex-Chief Minster Farooq Abdullah who headed Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association (JKCA) for nearly three decades to Sports Minister Imran Raza Ansari who is now leading it, JKCA is yet to get down to serious business and improve the cricketing scenario in the state.
Political muddling in Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association (JKCA) has reduced the association to a laughing stock with virtually nothing incredible to show at the national level. The cricket team of Jammu and Kashmir which always had promising youngsters miserably failed to put up a credible show at the national level. If ex-President is embroiled in a scam worth crores of rupees, the new president Imran Raza Ansari is busy promoting favourites of BJP and PDP.
He is doing little or nothing to undo the wrongs allegedly done by the previous regimes and ensure that young promising cricketers get their due and in-return; J&K's cricket team shows some improvement in the rankings at the national level. Records bear testimony to the fact that he has allowed the adhocism to continue. Those who have sweat it out in the field for Jammu and Kashmir agree that politics plagues cricket in one of the most disturbed states in the country.
An association which has failed to get promising young cricketers of Jammu and Kashmir a place in the Indian playing eleven talks about having made historic changes in the cricketing arena of the state. It is seen more interested in playing politics, getting one thrown out of the association and another one elected besides bringing in players from outside the state to head Jammu and Kashmir on the pretext that they have experience which is the first and foremost requirement if one goes by the thinking and planning of Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association (JKCA).
Sports Minister Imran Raza Ansari who regards ex-President Dr. Farooq Abdullah a family member, has not moved an inch from where Abdullah had left JKCA, ex-cricketers who keenly watch J&K Cricket Team said in an observation. They accept that the adhocism still prevails and it is because of this reason that J&K has lost 93 percent of the matches played by it since 1959-60. A dismal record 22 wins in 268 matches itself indicates the hardwork and capability of those who have headed JKCA during the respective times.
If earlier, cricketers agree that it was sons, cousins and son-in-laws of ex-ministers and bureaucrats who would make playing 11 of Jammu and Kashmir, it is now outsiders deciding who would play for the state and who would not. Current captain of Jammu and Kashmir Mithun Manhas spent his youth and peak career days playing for New Delhi. When his sun was setting on Manhas, the think-tanks of JKCA drafted him the Team Jammu and Kashmir not as a player but as captain of the team for reasons best known to them.
All rounder and international player Parvez Rasool who off and on makes the Indian playing eleven was stripped of the captaincy without assigning any specific reasons. Parvez's international exposure was neither counted nor taken into consideration. Cricket pundits of Jammu and Kashmir maintain that Ian Dev Singh could have made a better captain if Parvez was to be replaced by someone. They say that Ian is a fighter and would have definitely made a better captain.
But Mithun was drafted in the state team. Ironically, those who think and plan in JKCA had just 5 victories in their lap to show in the 45 when they played for J&K. 17 victories have come in the last 17 years. The younger lot has played relatively better yet what makes this feat historic is the fact that not even one player of J&K has played more than 100 Ranji Trophy matches.
What to talk of 100, finding a 50 match player from Jammu and Kashmir is extremely difficult. Those who are talking cricket and deciding cricket in J&K have been part of the team J&K which was bowled for 23 in the first innings and 28 in the second innings by Delhi on their home soil in Amar Singh Club Ground, Srinagar in the year 1960-61. Furthermore, J&K was bowled out for 93 in the first innings and 23 in the second innings by Haryana in the year 1977-78.
The current Chairman of JKCA Mehboob Iqbal was then captain of the team. He was clean bowled for 9 runs in the first inning and for a duck in the second innings. Such is the dismal record of J&K that the team has been bowled out for less than 100 runs more than 70 times in 268 matches. And in return, J&K managed to bowl out just two teams i.e. Goa and Kerala for less than 100 in the entire span of 57 years of the state's entry in Ranji Trophy format.
J&K has never crossed 300 runs in the fourth innings of any test match. J&K's total has remained below 300 against almost all the formidable sides in the Ranji Trophy. Despite many claiming of having remained top speed-stars and spinners of J&K, none has ever managed to get a hat-trick in the 268 matches played by the team. Punjab had drubbed J&K 8 times by an innings and Delhi almost 7 times followed by 2 times by Railways. With this record, JKCA should better introspect and take up the job assigned to it seriously. |
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