Parents get worked up, want to sue NCT

When the Delhi Under-19 team was announced ahead of the zonal one-dayers recently, Bishan Singh Bedi expressed disgust at some of the selections. In a letter dated October 1, he lashed out at seven selections calling them a result of proxies and influential people. He named Suryansh Tyagi, Utkarsh Singh, Viren Singh, Tejas Broca, Karan Bidhuri, Arjun Khanna and Ishan Kantewala as those undeserving and forced into the team for the Vinoo Mankad games.

Well, it wasn’t exactly wrong criticism. The Delhi team management didn’t play all of them and of those that played, one or two did come up with important knocks. Irrespective of the criticism, the team went to win the North Zone league which was largely thanks to efforts of vice-captain and dashing batsman Himmat Singh who hammered two back to back hundreds and got a half-century as well.

There is no doubt that Himmat is one of the best talents around and the selectors, rightly it seems pushed the Modernite’s name for captaincy for the days’ version --- the Cooch Behar Trophy. Quite a few of the names mentioned above are in the U-19 team, and their parents have reportedly threatened to sue the officials of NCT (the body formed by Bedi & Co for fighting the ills in DDCA) if they continue to malign the names. An official with the current sports committee confided that the parents are ready to sue the officials if they don’t stop spilling the beans.