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CAB ready to accept ICL players

KOLKATA: The Cricket Association of Bengal on Monday announced it was ready to accept into its fold all Bengal players who had joined the Indian Cricket League.

The CAB joint secretary, Arun Mitra, who met four of the six ICL players from Bengal — Deep Dasgupta, Abhishek Jhunjhunwala, Subhomay Das and Eklak Ahmed — said: “They are welcome to return to our fold. Before that they need to follow certain procedure to get out of the ICL,” he said.

Some of the ICL players said they needed to apply for a no-objection certificate from the ICL and once they get it they might make their next move to return to play domestic cricket.

Mitra said the return of those ICL players did not necessarily mean that they would play for the state straight away. “All of them will have to perform well in the local league to qualify as probables for the state side,” he said.

Dasgupta said he was overwhelmed by the invite from the CAB joint secretary for the discussion and termed the talks as very fruitful.

The other three who played in the ICL — Rohan Gavaskar, Subhajit Paul and Shiv Sagar Singh — did not turn up for the meeting. — Special Correspondent

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