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Former India pacer Venkatesh Prasad will contest for the president’s post in the upcoming elections at the Karnataka State Cricket Association (KSCA), and his panel received strong backing from stalwarts Anil Kumble and Javagal Srinath.
The KSCA election is scheduled for November 30, and the candidates can file their respective nominations from Wednesday until November 16.
The Raghuram Bhatt-led dispensation’s tenure ended on September 30.
Other prominent names to contest from his panel are: former India batter Sujith Somasundar (vice-president), seasoned administrator Vinay Mruthynjaya (secretary), AV Shashidhar (joint secretary), Madhukar (treasurer) and former Karnataka cricketer Avinash Vaidya (institutional member from Bengaluru Zone).
“We are all here for a purpose, we are all here for a cause and cricket is number one,” Prasad said after filing his nomination.
“Our domestic structure within the state used to be at the top when Anil Kumble and Javagal Srinath were heading this association. After that, we’ve seen a decline, and now we want to revive the game and the infrastructure. We want to get back international matches because without them, what is (M) Chinnaswamy Stadium? It’s such an iconic venue. You need to have international matches, you need to have IPL matches as well. We’ve been hearing news about matches going somewhere else, but we are very sure and we are gonna work extremely hard to make sure that the Bengaluru team plays here at the Chinnaswamy Stadium,” he added.
