The annual, weeklong Saints’ Inter College Cricket Tournament kicked off at the newly laid turf of All Saints’ College of Technology cricket ground at Gandhinagar Bhopal on Tuesday. Organising Secretary of the tournament Anwar Usmani in a statement informed that all the matches of the tournament would be played in accordance with International T-20 format.
Usmani further said that the tournament was inaugurated by Chairman of Bhopal Divisional Cricket Association (BDCA) Anureshwar Singh Dev. Secretary BDCA Junaid Kidwai and other Senior Officials from Bhopal Cricket Association along with Press representatives were also present on the occasion. Usmani said that on this occasion Chairperson of the Kurwai Education Society Qaiser Zaman welcomed the guests and presented mementos to the extinguished guests.
He said that the tournament was officially inaugurated by Anureshwar Singh dev by hitting few strokes before distinguished guest, students and faculty members. This enhanced the festive mood of the tournament. He said the inauguration ceremony was followed by festival match between teams from BDCA and Journalist-XI Bhopal which was keenly watched. The match was won by Journalist XI by 20 runs. Journalist team batting first scored 120 runs. Vikas scored 41 runs and Akbar 37 runs and Deepak 35 runs. Deepak was declared Man of the match for his excellent performance both with Bat and Ball.
He told that BDCA batting second could manage 101 runs against some tight bowling and excellent fielding. The only notable contributors were Anwar Usmani with 27 runs and Anureshwar Singh with 15 runs. Dhingra also presented data for the year 2013 from the gastro-surgery department headed by Dr Varshney that shows that while only 3 percent of gas victims reporting at the day clinics were admitted to the hospital, in the case of private patients the corresponding figure was 18 per cent. Dhingra said that both Dr. Trivedi and Dr. Varshney are facing court cases for their involvement in unethical drug trials during which as many as 9 gas victims have died.
The organisations said that the ICMR should let the unethical bunch of consultants leave BMHRC at the earliest while making sure that those responsible for the unethical drug trials on gas victims remain personally accountable. The organisations demanded that recruitments at BMHRC should be according to Central Government rules instead of the current practice in which the rules of the old Bhopal Memorial Hospital Trust are also followed.