Decision on Gavaskar only after NCA meeting: Dungarpur

MUMBAI, DEC. 23. Mr. Raj Singh Dungarpur, the National Cricket Academy chairman and former Board of Control for Cricket in India president, said that no decision has yet been taken on the resignation letter submitted by Sunil Gavaskar, former India skipper and a member of the NCA committee.

``A decision can be taken only when the NCA committee members meet,'' said Mr. Dungarpur at the Cricket Club of India, but expressed his inability to set any future date for the same.

Gavaskar quit the NCA committee on Friday night at the CCI, during a meeting of the Bangalore-based Academy committee members, where he submitted his resignation letter. This drastic step was in response to an interview by the ex-BCCI president in a Mumbai eveninger, Mid-day, the same day, asking the ex-India skipper to quit instead of publicly criticising a decision by the same NCA committee of which he was a member.

The public war of words between the two began after Gavaskar, through his column, objected to BCCI's decision of allowing NCA a tour game against the visiting Zimbabweans at Indore. ``I have resigned from the National Cricket Academy. But let me make it clear that I had not criticised the Board in my column as Raj Singh Dungarpur claims. I was just making an observation that there are other players (other than from NCA) who deserve to play a touring side (Zimbabwe),'' said a statement from the former India skipper, who added that he has not parted ways with the Board and remains the chairman of the BCCI technical committee.

Mr. Dungarpur questioned the propriety of a NCA committee member in objecting to the Academy playing a tour game and asked for Gavaskar's resignation. ``One gentleman (Gavaskar) being a member of the NCA said in his newspaper column that the NCA should not have been given a game (against Zimbabwe). I have not read it, but I have been told. Such people should either resign from the Academy, or take it on, or fall in line. No, you can't run with the hares and hunt with the hounds,'' the Academy chairman had stated in his interview to the Mumbai eveninger.

- Our Special Correspondent

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