After the article on Tunku Imran, i received a mail referring me also to Asian Cricket Council (ACC) website: http://www.asiancricket.org/, on an award being given to Federal Territory Cricket Association with regards to Junior Development. Obviously the message did not give me anything else and I had to slog a bit when I surfed ACC's website. The other thing being the message is of a non-reply category, it was impossible to revert to the original source for clarification.
The ACC website covers a number of areas on Development and the aspect of the award for FTCA comes under the heading of "Development News". Under the sub-heading of "Asia's Development Winners", the various categories of winners for the Asian region were announced. FTCA was named as winner under the "Best Junior Cricket Initiative". Sadly, ACC had not provided a synopsis of FTCA's achievements to be winner under this category.
However the ACC Development Manager, Bandula Wamapura had this to state: "These awards are important as they recognise and appreciate the hard work and development". With this FTCA's name had been submitted to an International Cricket Council (ICC) panel to be considered on a worldwide basis. I believe FTCA had missed out on winning that award.
Still FTCA and its Committee must be congratulated for getting the award as Asia's best in Junior cricket initiative. Well done! I hope that FTCA would publicise their award and the details of their junior programme. Unfortunately, i have no access to such information to exactly understand the greatness of FTCA's programme.
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Both news featuring YAM Tunku Imran and the FTCA awards are carried in the MCA website. However nothing on the ongoing U19 ACC Elite Cup in Kuwait where our national U19 are participating. News that fetted the president and an affiliate are featured prominently but the national juniors campaign in the only Asian level tournament left for them takes backstage.
Can the MCA management take some serious actions against the personnel assigned to the updating of the website. I suspect one employee who is employed based on his IT skills is shirking his responsibilities. Don't be so obvious in mollycoddling your employer.
What you want to know......
How the U'19s got hammered by Hong Kong........
Anonymous Apr 27, 2009 5:46PM,
Let me update you since you are more interested to show how Malaysia lost. Well, they are on their way home earlier than expected. Hong Kong just knocked them out of the semi final spot after defeating Nepal.
This is the second time in a row Malaysia have failed to reach the semis. For the record, we have always qualified for the final ever since the tournament's inauguration.
So much for some party to claim the sole honour of developing the present squad from scratch. Back to the drawing board, send more ex nationals for coaching courses.
I am not interested to show how Malaysia lost. I knew Malaysia would never make it......
With the knowledge of cricket these boys know, they will never make it......(bare in mind they have great talent & skill set but no point,the way cricket is played today - you need brains more then anything!!!)
You can keep on training with the best facalities available.....you will still not make it.......we don't understand the game........
3rd Anonymouus,
Get your facts right. This is the first time Malaysia failed to enter the semi finals. We qualified for the semis the last time in KL but lost and ended 4th placed.
This year's team is better prepared and riding on the U17 runners up achievement but alas, maybe they were not prepared intelligently as one commented. It reflects on the team officials as well?
As a consolation, the Malaysian juniors finished a credible 5th placing by defeating UAE. It used to be Nepal who have been preventing us from becoming champion, now the powerhouse has shifted to Afghanistan and surprise, surprise, Hong Kong. Better do something before we get pushed further down the pecking order.
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