President Lahore Region Cricket Association, Khawaja Nadeem Ahmad on Thursday presented the two-year performance report of LRCA and expressed his satisfaction for achieving success in launching a comprehensive programme of activity to revive the at club level. He also laid out a plan for getting central contract for the top player of the region in three categories with category having recommended Rs 40,000 stipend.
He also informed that the government will also allot two ground of the city to LRCA where floodlights will be installed while top class facilities will be established at these grounds.
“It is a matter of great satisfaction for us that we have finally been able to put the Lahore cricket at the right track and LRCA is thankful to its office bearers and all the three affiliated zones in making LRCA a successful regional cricket body”, President, LRCA stated at a news conference which was also attended by Vice President, Imran Bucha here. Nadeem said two years ago when he took over as the President of LRCA cricket was in shambles and he presented his one point agenda of revival of Lahore cricket and their two-year performance reveals that they are getting rapid success in achieving this objective. He said record activity took place in previous two years to revive club cricket and to strengthen its base. “ We had the honour of starting Lahore Sprite cricket league in which so far 473 matches have been organized and through this league we selected LRCA teams for PCB Sr inter district championship ”,he said adding “ we are strictly maintaining merit and we are selecting our teams on the performance of players ”, said Nadeem himself a former first class cricketer. He said LRCA has become a role model regional cricket body due to its commitment to re-establish Lahore’s status as the nursery of cricket. “We have taken lead by starting our bio-matrix programme to keep the up-date of record of players representing affiliated zones of LRCS in different cricket competition and through this useful system we will be able to know the exact strength of players in Lahore region”, said LCRA Chief. LRCA successfully organised U19 cricket league and now its U16 league will start from June 20 to identify new cricket talent, he said Nadeem expressed his special thanks to Secretary LRCA, Mian Javed Ali and other office bearers for extending full cooperation in supplementing his efforts for the uplift of cricket .” My special gratitude to my Vice President, Imran Bucha for coming up with brain storming ideas to lure sponsors to patronage Lahore cricket”,he said. He said LRCA will be selecting its teams for Quaid-e-Azam trophy through a transparent way. The sixty outstanding players of Sr inter district cricket tournament will be invited to attend a camp in which special attention will be laid on fielding, physical fitness and match practice to evaluate the individual performance of players so that teams should be selected on merit to produce desired results.
