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**Official** World XI v Asia XI
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cric_manic
First Class Debutant
big deal they wernt there before and it was a good game
chris.hinton
International Captain
I thought it was a Joke as well
FaaipDeOiad
Hall of Fame Member
Certainly looks that way, I believe it has been postponed until April. The trouble was simply overcrowding player schedules. In April I believe most of the cricketing world will be free (if not all of it), so it's a better time to have it.Pratyush said:
I think Postponing was not a good idea, because the intention was to play others who didn't play in the first one,ie England and SA players as well as Pakistan and West Indian players.
Indian players wouldn't have found it hard to be involved in one game, in the middle of their schedule.
In fact most players would have been available. I don't think the Aussies or NZ players would need to be involved in that World eleven since they have already made their contribution in more than one way, and the purpose of this game is fund raising not to raise profiles of some of these players !
I don't see the point of postponing for the sake of some players or countries.
To me the most important thing is to raise funds when the memory of the Tsunami is still fresh and sponsors and contributors are readily forth coming than when the Tsunami is long forgotten and the ability to raise funds would be diminished !!
Indian players wouldn't have found it hard to be involved in one game, in the middle of their schedule.
In fact most players would have been available. I don't think the Aussies or NZ players would need to be involved in that World eleven since they have already made their contribution in more than one way, and the purpose of this game is fund raising not to raise profiles of some of these players !
I don't see the point of postponing for the sake of some players or countries.
To me the most important thing is to raise funds when the memory of the Tsunami is still fresh and sponsors and contributors are readily forth coming than when the Tsunami is long forgotten and the ability to raise funds would be diminished !!
Here's the latest from Cricinfo website, Its been cancelled. What a disaster !!Hero_Don said:
Those poor people who could've benefitted from the funds raised have been disappointed by the bungling by ICC and Dalmaiya .
If Calcutta was hot, surely could it not be organised some where else. Like Sharjah or Colombo even. What a load of bull !!
Here's the news item -
World Cricket Tsunami Appeal 2005
Second tsunami match cancelled
Cricinfo staff
February 28, 2005
The second tsunami fundraising match between the World and Asian XIs, which was scheduled for Calcutta in April, has been cancelled. Jagmohan Dalmiya, the Asian Cricket Council president, said the weather would be too hot for the match, which was already postponed from February 13 because too many top-level players were unavailable.
"Due to the heat in second half of April, the tsunami match cannot be held," Dalmiya told Press Trust of India. Following the success of the first match at Melbourne, which raised $14m (US$11m) for victims of the Boxing Day tsunami, the ACC was due to organise another game to continue to aid the rebuilding process.
The crowded playing schedules of international teams had also made it too difficult to arrange the match. "We were all geared up and ready to go," Syed Ashraful Huq, the ACC chief executive, told the Weekend Australian. "We had sponsors in place but were forced to push the match back because of the overworked players, who wanted it later in April."
© Cricinfo
LongHopCassidy
International Captain
That's a bit weak. It seems people are forgetting the suffering of the victims already.