Jharkhand State Cricket Association president and BCCI joint secretary Amitabh Chaudhary on Wednesday claimed that there will be no stopping for India, once it reaches to the finals of Cricket World Cup Cricket Tournament being played at Australia and New Zealand. Chaudhary was speaking at Doranda Post Office in Ranchi during the release of a booklet on World Cup on the eve of stamp fest being organised by the Department of Posts.
“All of us praying to God that India comes into the finals as once it reaches to it, no one can stop it by lifting this World Cup,” said Chaudhary. The JSCA President also questioned the reasons due to which Jharkhand remained devoid of any representation in the International Cricket for so many years.
“Today the best cricket captain in the world is from the land of Jharkhand, why is it so that there did not emerge any international talent in cricket in the last 70 years in the history of Indian cricket must be thought over,” said Chaudhary.
Chaudhary also thanked Captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni for giving Ranchi an identity on the world map. Referring to the cricket booklet released on the former Indian Skipper Sachin Tendulkar, the JSCA President lauded the efforts made by the department of posts and said that it was an excellent work done by them to bring the historical moments on documented records.
According to the Post Master General Anki Kumar photographs of first and last one day match played by Tendulkar, also known as God of Cricket has been compiled in a miniature sheet in the form of postal stamps.
Chief Post Master General Sujata Chaudhary addressing the media persons at the occasion said that the booklet will be kept for exhibition during the stamp fest being organized on Thursday and Friday and every General Post Offices as well as all philatelic bureaus for public viewing.
“During the stamp fest, several other cultural, competitive and educational programmes like painting, quizzing, debate, dancing as well as letter writing completion will also be organized during these two days,” said the CPMG. More than 700 students from 56 schools from all over the state will be participating in different competitive programmes, CPMG said.
CPMG Chaudhary further added that the most attractive part of the fest will be letter writing competition which was being organized to promote letter writing as it could be kept for several years as documented records against the SMS and e-mail which may get deleted with the passage of time.