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Stars to discuss history of cricket
Two-day session to look at major changes as well as explore development of women's game.
- By K.R. Nayar, Senior Reporter
- Published: 22:45 July 21, 2009
- David Morgan.
- Image Credit: Gulf News Archive
Dubai: Cricket's legendary players, historians, statisticians and administrators (past and present) will meet today in Oxford for a two-day International Cricket Council (ICC) organised "History of Cricket" conference.
This conference is part of the ICC centenary celebrations and the participants will celebrate the golden moments of the game and how they contributed to the popularity of the game.
Great players like Sunil Gavaskar, Clive Lloyd, Bishen Bedi, Bob Willis, Sourav Ganguly and Angus Fraser will speak during the conference.
David Morgan, the president of the ICC, said: "One of the key themes of the ICC's centenary year is tradition, to use 2009 as an opportunity to look back at the game's rich history, to honour past greats and recognise milestones. The ICC History Conference will be an opportunity for administrators past and present, as well as players, journalists, academics, historians and statisticians to come together and reflect on the events of the past 100 years".
The conference is being held at St Antony's College. Ehsan Mani, the former ICC President, and David Richards, who was ICC's first chief executive, will talk on the challenging issues they had to deal with during their term.
Historians will trace back the events that led to the formation of the ICC, which began as the Imperial Cricket Conference in 1909 with just Australia, England and South Africa as members. On Wednesday, Gavaskar will discuss half a century of cricket with historians and journalists while Lloyd, Willis, Ganguly, Giles Clarke and Fraser will talk on the topic "It's not like it used to be' - The Changing Game."
Haroon Lorgat, the ICC Chief Executive and Morgan will be part of all the discussions.
There will also be discussion on women's cricket, its development and expansion. Rachael Heyhoe-Flint, who lifted the inaugural women's World Cup in 1973, as well as current England captain Charlotte Edwards and her team-mate Ebony Rainford-Brent, who helped England win the Twenty20 World Cup and the Ashes, will be present.
Some of the other personalities who will talk on various aspects of the game are Sir Hilary Beckles, the Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Principal and Professor of Economic and Social History at the University of the West Indies and Brian Stoddart, the former Vice-Chancellor of La Trobe University, Australia.
Boria Majumdar of the University of Central Lancashire, Don Neely, the President of New Zealand Cricket, and leading cricket historians Mihir Bose, David Frith and Gideon Haigh will also take part.
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