da fazobetai： The Sports Authority of Goa (SAG) have requested the state governmentto appoint an enquiry commission to probe the alleged sale of faketickets for the India-Australia One-Day International match played atMargao, Goa
da mrbet： Staff and Agencies25-Apr-2001* Sports Authority of Goa urges for a government probeThe Sports Authority of Goa (SAG) have requested the state governmentto appoint an enquiry commission to probe the alleged sale of faketickets for the India-Australia One-Day International match played atMargao, Goa.SAG also have asked the government to send a show-cause notice to theGoa Cricket Association (GCA) asking them as to why the associationshould not be derecognised for mismanagement of the match.According to PTI, the general body of SAG, which met in Panaji, Goa,on Tuesday, also suggested 15 days time be given to GCA to reply tothe notice. The meeting was presided over by Goa sports ministerSanjay Bandekar, who is also the vice-president of SAG and they took adecision to recommend stringent action by the Board of Control forCricket in India (BCCI) against GCA.SAG was of the opinion that the government should recover an amount ofover Rs 18 lakh as 20 per cent share from sale of tickets for theApril 6 ODI and another sum of Rs 9.52 lakh as balance dues of the ODImatch held in 1997.* Karavali Cricket Academy seeks official confirmation fromAustraliaThe ‘missing five players’ story seems to have taken a new twist. Thecricketers were sent to the Commonwealth Bank Cricket Academy,Australia, by India’s Karavali Cricket Academy (KCA), based in thestate of Karnataka, as part of the academy’s overseas trainingprogramme.KCA revealed that it was still making efforts to get in touch withWayne Phillips, the head coach of the Commonwealth Bank CricketAcademy, to get official confirmation about the whereabouts of fivecricket players sent by KCA for a training stint there.”We are making very serious efforts to contact Phillips to getofficial information about the players,” Prakash, manager, KCA, toldPTI on Tuesday. The five players, hailing from Thrissur in Kerala,were sent for a two-week training stint at the academy on March 24 butwere reported missing after they reached Adelaide on March 25.The KCA, which was completely taken by surprise when the five playersdid not report to Wayne Phillips and went ‘missing’, is alsocontemplating “a legal procedure” to know the whereabouts of theplayers, despite reports about their families confirming their safety.
