Date:25/11/2007 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2007/11/25/stories/2007112557561800.htm

Sport - Cricket

Uncertainty over Lara continues

Panchkula: Uncertainty continues over the participation of West Indian legend Brian Lara in the Indian Cricket League Twenty20 tournament beginning here from November 30.

“He has left West Indies and only once he reaches here, we all will know,” ICL’s Executive Board Chairman Kapil Dev told reporters here on Saturday.

When asked if there had been any communication with Lara, who according to ICL officials is to play for Mumbai Champs, one of the six teams in the tournament, all Kapil said was: “Lara has left his country.”

When asked if all the international players who had signed up with ICL would participate, Kapil said “99 per cent of them will be there.”

Kapil said some new rules would be introduced in the forthcoming tournament.

“To encourage fielders aim more hits at the stumps to effect a run out, we have decided to do away with over-throws that are normally given if the ball gets deflected off the stumps,” he said. — PTI