Sharad Pawar
Sharad Pawar
Sharad Govindrao Pawaris an Indian politician who serves as the president of the Nationalist Congress Party which he founded in 1999, after separating from the Indian National Congress. He previously served as the Chief Minister of Maharashtra on three separate occasions and held the posts of Minister of Defence and Minister of Agriculture in the Government of India. Pawar hails from the town of Baramati in the Pune district of Maharashtra. He is a member of the Rajya Sabha where...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth12 December 1940
CountryIndia
Our claim is a rightful one. The South Asian region has four of the 10 Test-playing nations and a large part of the money earned from cricket comes from here, so there is good reason that every third World Cup be held here. Our proposal is not about India alone. To see matches being held in more countries would mean more crowd participation.
Yes we have decided to organize Test matches between India and Pakistan after every two years on the lines of Ashes.
We all want to resolve issues and organize a successful Champions Trophy in India this year, but some venues have contractual obligations.
We share Pakistan's stance on this. India also does not support a Twenty20 world tournament.
If an industrialist can sell his products anywhere in India and the world, why should a farmer not be allowed to do so?
It is not easy to ignore a bid when India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh decide to come together.
We have some very good neutral venues like California, United Arab Emirates and Holland where there are a large number of expatriates of both countries and they would love to watch their cricketing heroes.
The Asia Cup will be played in September 2007.
The Asia Cup, which was to be held next month in Pakistan was postponed and it has now been decided that it will be staged in Pakistan in September 2007.
The Asia Cup has been postponed till 2007 september.
With such high income, the associations should pledge to improve the standard of the game and also give better facilities to players so that they remain with the sport, grow with it and can make a living out of it.
We have been invited to play two Tests and three one-day internationals in Bangladesh and the tour would take place after the World Cup.
The decision to drop him was taken by the selectors and they made the decision keeping the best interests of the team in mind.
There is a full-fledged selection committee which is competent enough to pick the team.