da aposte e ganhe： The selection committee of the Cricket Association of Bengal havesprung a few surprises by omitting notable players like SrikantKalyani, Alokendu Lahiri, Wrichik Majumder and Sujay Parui from thelist of Ranji probables for the 2001-02 season
Staff and Agencies24-Jul-2001* Bengal select 28 Ranji probablesThe selection committee of the Cricket Association of Bengal havesprung a few surprises by omitting notable players like SrikantKalyani, Alokendu Lahiri, Wrichik Majumder and Sujay Parui from thelist of Ranji probables for the 2001-02 season.The 28 probables will start their conditioning under the guidance ofVace Paes from the first week of August. Bengal’s new coach, formerTest all rounder Karsan Ghavri will reach Kolkata on July 27. Thisyear the Bengal team will play in the Buchi Babu Trophy tournament inChennai and the Moin-ud-Dowlah Trophy tourney in Hyderabad. The seniorselection committee and the junior selection committee sat along withThe CAB President Jagmohan Dalmiya and the joint secretaries and theassistant secretaries while selecting the players.The probables: Arindam Das, Amitava Chakrabarty, Aurijeet Basu, NikhilHaldipur, Rohan Gavaskar, Devang Gandhi, Subhamoy Das, SaikatMukherjee, Soumen Singh, Safi Ahmed, Souvik Mukherjee, SubhradipGanguly, Laxmi Ratan Shukla, Ranadeb Bose, Sabir Ali, Shib ShankarPaul, Samad Akhtar, Sanjib Sanyal, Dharmendra Singh, Samrat Guha,Utpal Chatterjee, Pradipta Majumder, Gaurav Sharma, Murtaza Lodghar,Sourashish Lahiri, Saujan Biswas, Deep Dasgupta and Ritesh Jaiswal.* 54 teams for Chennai inter-school tourneyThe Tamil Nadu Cricket Association, with the help of sponsors,regularly conducts age wise tournaments in the age group of 12, 14 and16 to help unearth young talent. And the Parle-G TNCA C RamaswamyTrophy (under-16) tournament is a step in this direction.According to Ashok Kumbhat, secretary, TNCA, Parle Products Ltd aresponsoring this tournament for the second year in succession. Thetournament will be played at various grounds in Chennai from July 25.As many as 54 school teams are in the fray. Matches will be played on30-over basis initially and on a knock-out format till the prequarter-finals. The last 16 teams will be divided into four groups andthe matches will be played on 50 overs on a league basis. The top teamin each group will qualify for the semifinals to be played on 50overs. The final will be a two day match.To make it attractive to the young participants, the sponsors havecome up with a number of incentives. There are prizes for the teamswho qualify for the semifinals while the prize money to the finalistsis Rs 9,000 (runners-up) and Rs 16,000 (winners) besides trophies.There will be a man of the match award for all games. Uniforms will begiven to the players with the logo of the sponsors and the TNCA.