New Delhi, April 26: All eyes will be focussed on friends-turned-foes Jagmohan Dalmiya, president of the International Cricket Council (ICC), and former cricket Board Chief Inderjit Singh Bindra at the crucial meeting convened here on Thursday by Union Sports Minister Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa to discuss the betting and match-fixing scandal.These two cricket administrators, who once charted the path of globalising the game through their smart marketing techniques when Bindra was president and Dalmiya the BCCI secretary in the early 1990s but have fallen out since then, will come face-to-face for the first time since trading outrageous charges against one another recently.They are expected to be the central figures in the discussion for which the current Board President AC Muthiah and two other past presidents, Madhav Rao Scindia and NKP Salve, have been called along with BCCI vice-president and Union Heavy Industries Minister Manohar Joshi, its secetary Jaywant Lele apart from Union Information and Broadcasting Minister and Delhi District Cricket Association (DDCA) chief Arun Jaitley.Also invited for the meeting are current captain Saurav Ganguly, who has expressed his inability to attend due to his county commitments in England, and two other current players and ex-national skippers Sachin Tendulkar and Mohd Azharuddin, Sunil Gavaskar, Bishen Singh Bedi and Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi, current coach Kapil Dev plus two former coaches Anshuman Gaekwad and Madan Lal, according to information available.Whether anything concrete comes out of this meeting, brought up in the wake of the raging scandal which has rocked the cricket world, remains to be seen.MCA disagrees with KapilMUMBAI: Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) termed the repeated suggestion of Kapil Dev to suspend all international commitments of the National team till the doubt of suspicion is cleared as ``absurd and not in the interest of Indian cricket and cricketers''.MCA joint secretary Professsor Ratnakar Shetty issued a statement that by not playing international cricket till the problem (match fixing and betting) is solved, ``a number of Indian cricketers whose integrity can never be in doubt will have to suffer. And some cricketers who have excelled in the domestic tournaments will be denied an opportunity of representing the country,'' he pointed out.
