ICC to limit the Regional Cricket Bodies

The ICC will take direct control of all regional cricketing activities across the world by limiting involvement of regional bodies, the ACC CEO Syed Ashraful Huq has said. The cutoff date is the end of 2015, after which the future of bodies like the Asian Cricket Council will be uncertain.

The future tournaments will be in doubt if
the ICC limits the influence of regional bodies

"I think they don't want to abolish the ACC wholly, but minimize the activities," Huq told the BBC Bangla Service. "It is not just the ACC but all the regional bodies - Africa, Europe, North and South America and Asia-Pacific - which will be directly controlled by the ICC.

"Twenty-one countries, apart from Test-playing countries, from Saudi Arabia to China - we have been working in their development work - coaches, umpiring and other areas of cricket. We have U16, U19, Challenge Cup, Premier Cup, but whether all these will stay or not, I am not really sure.

"[The change] is still in a discussion phase. We have been told unofficially that our activities will continue till the end of 2015. The commercial contract of the ICC will end at that time, so what will happen after that no one really knows. The ACC will remain as an organisation on paper. The headquarters might not stay."

According to Huq, the ICC will do the development work of all non-Test playing nations, as part of their vision to streamline cricket activities across the world. He questioned the Big Three's plan to downsize the global game, and felt that cricket would lose out to other sports. "The ICC is going to directly be in charge of the development work in the non-Test playing nations, something that we have been doing," Huq said. "I don't know what good it will bring by taking out the regional body. In the last World T20, four of the six non-Test playing nations were from Asia. It is the direct result of what we have been doing over the years.

"The ICC is being controlled by three countries - India, Australia and England. What they are saying is that there is no need for so many nations playing cricket. There are ten Test-playing nations and eight or 10 other nations that play cricket, but they feel that spending so much on the others is not bringing the desired results.

"But the fact is that they don't want to run cricket in many countries. I think we should focus on globalisation. Our main competitor is football but if we can't make all countries play cricket, how can we call it a global sport?"

Extract : espncricinfo.com

Farewell to Orkut

Orkut is a social networking site owned and operated by Google Inc. About 10 years ago in 24th January 2004, Orkut Buyukkoktens founded Orkut which was later owned and operated under Google Platform. 

"After ten years of sparking conversations and forging connections, we have decided it's time for us to stat saying Goodbye to Orkut." mentioned by Google on different posts, forums and emails. Google engineering director Paul Golgher said in a blog post : "Over the past decade, YouTube, Blogger and Google+ have ten off, with communities springing up in every corner of the world. Because of the growth of these communities has outpaced Orkut's growth, we have decided to bid Orkut farewell. Orkul was the result of a 20 percent project in which Google workers got to spend a fifth of their time on ideas not necessarily related to their job responsibilities."

On 30th June 2014, Google Inc. announced that it will be closing Orkut on 30th September 2014. No new accounts can be created from July 2014 onwards in Orkut. Those who are already the user of Orkut, can export their profile or download all the archives by Google Takeout. 

Orkut was one of the msot visited websites in India and Brazil in 2008. (source Wikipedia). In 2008, Google Inc. handed the operation and management authority of Orkut to Google Brazil, in the city of Belo Horizonte. This was decided due to the large Brazilian user base and growth of legal issues. 

Despite the popularity, and due to many seen and unseen causes, Google Inc. will be closing the famous social networking site viz. Orkut from 30th September 2014 onwards. The departure of Orkut from Google Team is supposed to be boosting the other social networking sites viz. Google Plus, Blogger, and so forth. 

Nepali Cricket Squad Declared for Close Camp :: Asian Games

Arun Aryal 

Cricket Association of Nepal has declared woman and man's cricket team for close camp with 19 members in each camp. 17th Asia Games is going to be hosted by South Korea from 20th of September to 4th of October 2014. Paras Khadka from men's team and Rubina Chhetri from women's team will lead the Nepali Cricket Team.

Pubudu Dassanayke, whose tenure has been extended by 1 years by the cabinet meeting won't be coaching the squad this time. CAN had announced the name of Arun Aryal as the National Coach during the Asian Games.

Aryal, who will be coaching the current squad for the Asian Games had the experience of coaching Nepal Army team. Under this guidance, Nepal army have won the Senior Level Domestic T20 title.

Following are the name of the players who will be competing to secure the place in the final squad from men's and women's national representatives!

Men's Close Camp :
1.  Paras Khadka
2. Gyanendra Malla
3. Sharad Vesawkar
4. Subash Khakurel
5. Shakti Gauchan
6. Sagar Pun
7. Sompal Kami

Malaysian Airlines' Jet Crash in East Ukraine (Photo Feature)

Malaysian Airlines' Jet MH17 carrying 295 people has crashed on East Ukrane's Conflict Zone on a flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lampur.

This is the second disaster suffered by Malaysian Airlines after the flight MH370 is still out of contact since it has disappeared on Last March on the way to China from Malaysia.

Some of the pictures of the accident available over the internet have been collected and placed below !

Crash Site

Flight MH17 leaving Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam, on Thursday afternoon