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
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.
If the contract does not prohibit him from going to court, he is free to do so. Otherwise he cannot.
We want to close this chapter here and we do not want to take the issue any further.
We share Pakistan's stance on this. India also does not support a Twenty20 world tournament.
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.
It is not easy to ignore a bid when India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh decide to come together.
There is a full-fledged selection committee which is competent enough to pick the team.
He is such a good player. I have never said he should retire.
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.
I entered politics in 1967; since then, continuously, I am getting elected... Fortunately I never lost the elections.
Emotionally, a person is tied to the land of his birth. It's only human.