Angry Kapil takes on BCCI
All is not well between the Board of Cricket Control in India and veteran cricketer Kapil Dev.
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| NEW DELHI: All is not well between the Board of Cricket Control in India and veteran cricketer Kapil Dev. Two weeks after his poster was removed from the Punjab Cricket Association stadium in Mohali, former Indian skipper Kapil Dev wrote to the Punjab Cricket Association secretary, MP Pandove, asking the association to return his 'gifts and memorabilia'.
An e-mail and letter sent by Kapil to the Punjab Cricket Association states, "I came to know through media reports that Punjab Cricket Association has removed my portrait from the Punjab Cricket Association ground at Mohali, for some unknown reasons. Well, it���s your decision and you are free to do whatever you want."
The letter added, "I am concerned about the personal gifts and memorabilia of my cricketing years and also that of the 1983 World Cup cricket tournament, given by me to the Punjab Cricket Association, which are kept at various places at the Mohali ground. I apprehend that now the Punjab Cricket Association may not like to preserve the memorabilia mentioned above any more. I will be really be grateful if the same is returned to me so that I can preserve them since I have personal attachments and I am emotionally attached with all such items, which were used by me personally throughout my cricketing years."
"Therefore, if you are not at all willing to preserve and find it difficult to keep those items or ever think of throwing them out in that case I would really be grateful if the same is returned to me so that I can preserve them. Please do not take it otherwise, it���s only my feelings, emotions and attachments with my things which are so dear to me, " read the letter.
When the poster controversy took place a few days earlier, president of the Punjab Cricket Association, IS Bindra evaded the issue saying that the poster had fallen down due to the wind. He said, "Kapil's poster has been removed from its place. A new extension has been constructed at the PCA Stadium, and we���re just looking for an appropriate place to put up his poster there. As soon as we find a place, we will place it."
An e-mail and letter sent by Kapil to the Punjab Cricket Association states, "I came to know through media reports that Punjab Cricket Association has removed my portrait from the Punjab Cricket Association ground at Mohali, for some unknown reasons. Well, it���s your decision and you are free to do whatever you want."
The letter added, "I am concerned about the personal gifts and memorabilia of my cricketing years and also that of the 1983 World Cup cricket tournament, given by me to the Punjab Cricket Association, which are kept at various places at the Mohali ground. I apprehend that now the Punjab Cricket Association may not like to preserve the memorabilia mentioned above any more. I will be really be grateful if the same is returned to me so that I can preserve them since I have personal attachments and I am emotionally attached with all such items, which were used by me personally throughout my cricketing years."
"Therefore, if you are not at all willing to preserve and find it difficult to keep those items or ever think of throwing them out in that case I would really be grateful if the same is returned to me so that I can preserve them. Please do not take it otherwise, it���s only my feelings, emotions and attachments with my things which are so dear to me, " read the letter.
When the poster controversy took place a few days earlier, president of the Punjab Cricket Association, IS Bindra evaded the issue saying that the poster had fallen down due to the wind. He said, "Kapil's poster has been removed from its place. A new extension has been constructed at the PCA Stadium, and we���re just looking for an appropriate place to put up his poster there. As soon as we find a place, we will place it."
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Kapil���s alliance with the rebel Indian Cricket League, of which he is the chairman, led to the BCCI sacking him from the National Cricket Academy, stopping his pension, and then stripping his poster from the Mohali stadium. Download
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