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Cricket
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The first day of BCCI's 74th Annual General Meeting, here on Saturday, came out with the big decision which set the challenging note asking the ICC Development (International) Limited (IDI) to release the withheld share within November 1, failing which the BCCI would resort to arbitration. BCCI went further saying that it would also appoint appropriate agencies to investigate the claims raised by the Global Cricket Corporation-World Sport Nimbus (GCC-WSN) and also whether they were able to market the IDI events to the full potential. The board thus made its views clear, ahead of the meeting of the IDI scheduled on October 30 at Barbados. This was declared by Mr. Jagmohan Dalmiya after he was unanimously retained the president of the sport's national governing body for the third consecutive year. The AGM got through the election part quickly with unanimous decisions coming up for all the posts, informed Mr. Dalmiya. There were only three new names while rest of the members were retained in their respective posts. Mr. S.K. Nair has a second season as the secretary, while the two posts of treasurer and joint-secretary were filled up by Mr. Jyoti Bajpai, who completed his term as the joint-secretary, and Prof. Ratnakar Shetty respectively. Four out of the five vice presidents — Mr. Ranbir Singh Mahendra (North), Mr. M. Ranga Reddy (South), Mr. Narhari Amin (West) and Mr. Kamal Morarka (Central) — were re-elected, while Mr. Gautam Roy replaced Mr. Prafulla Kumar Mahanta as the vice president from East. The country's premier training institution, the National Cricket Academy, did not see any change in the top posts with Sunil Gavaskar, C.K. Khanna and Brijesh Patel continuing as the chairman, vice chairman and director respectively. The board chose Shivlal Yadav as the manager of the Indian team that will tour Australia. Among other notable decisions, the AGM approved in principle the contract system and graded payments for the international cricketers. The president said that the board has already discussed the issue with the players and the final decision would be made soon after having worked out the finer details of the amounts to be paid. He gave details of the of the player's payment pool which the board decided to allocate 26 per cent of Indian cricket revenue for the cricketers. He said that 13 per cent of the said revenue would go to the international cricketers, 10.6 per cent to the first-class cricketers and the remaining 2.4 would be distributed among junior cricketers. Regarding the dispute with ICC, the claims made by GCC-WSN "were found to be frivolous and fictitious.'' He said the claims favoured in the names of BSNL and Maruti were found to be non-existent while Pepsi and Hero Honda have already dropped their claims. He added that the claims about the deficit in the selling of television slots was baseless as it was found that Champions Trophy recorded a sell of around 91 per cent, while the quadrennial world event netted around 97 per cent. On the recommendation of its technical committee, the board approved the new points system for the three-day and four-day matches in the senior and junior tournaments in the 2003-04 season. The new systems gives four points to a team having outright victory while there will be one bonus point for a victory by an innings or ten wickets. A team getting first innings lead will earn two points while a team losing the match or conceding first innings lead will not get any point. In a four-day match, if 90 overs of play are lost because of weather and the first innings of both teams are not completed, each team will get one point. In case of three-day matches, if 60 overs of play are lost and first innings of both teams are not completed, each team would get one point. If, however, there is no first innings result in a match where full play has been possible, none of the teams would earn any point.
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