Cricket News: Indian Cricketers’ Association president Ashok Malhotra happy with BCCI; talks to PS

Indian Cricketers’ Association president Ashok Malhotra has thanked Board of Control for Cricket in India after the board decided to grant additional funding of Rs 3 crore to ICA in order to run the players’ body with a streamline flow. Mr. Ashok Malhotra is hopeful that ICA’s remaining demands which include pension for former players, who have played less than 25 first-class games, pension for widows of former cricketers, and a benevolent fund to Manoj Prabhakar, whose BCCI ban ended in 2005 for match-fixing charges against him will be met ‘sooner than later’. ICA, India’s first-ever players’ association formed as per recommendations of the Supreme Court-appointed Lodha panel, was granted Rs 2 crore by the BCCI in February to kickstart its operations.