The
name ‘Haryana’ is believed to have been
derived from the Sanskrit words Hari (Lord Maha Vishnu) and ayana (home),
meaning "the Abode of God”. The
state of Haryana was formed on 1 November 1966. The Indian
government set up the Shah Commission in 1966 to divide the existing Punjab, India and
determine the boundaries of the new state of Haryana after consideration of the
languages spoken by the people. The area that is now Haryana was ruled by major
empires of India.
Panipat is known for three seminal battles in the history of
India. In the 2nd battle in 1556, Akbar defeated the more popular
Hindu emperor Hemu who had earlier won 22 battles Punjab to Bengal defeating
Mughals and Afghans. Hemu had defeated Akbar's forces twice at Agra and Battle
of Delhi in 1556 and had coronoation at Purana Quila.
The river Yamuna defines Haryana’s
eastern border with Uttar Pradesh. Haryana surrounds the country's capital
Delhi on three sides.
Rohtak
city lies 70 kilometres (43 mi) north west of New Delhi, away from the capital
Chandigarh. It is one of the most
populous cities of the State and Lahli is a small place in Rohtak.
Remember
seeing the match at Chepauk in Dec 1976, Tamilnadu captained by S.
Venkatraghavan played Karnataka captained by EAS Prasanna. Their bowling was formidable with Prasanna,
Bhagwat Chandrasekhar, left arm spinner Vijaykrishna and Roger Binny. TN opened with P Ramesh and V Krishnaswamy,
Michael Dalvi followed. There was Abdul Jabbar too. The tall elegant left hander V
Sivaramakrishnan scored 169 and the stylish Thirumalai Echambadi Srinivasan
made an unbeaten 130. TN declared at 424/5.
Karnataka was all out for 273.
Brijesh Patel scored 103; while Binny, Gundappa Viswanath, Sudhakar rao,
Jayaprakash failed. Venkat too 5/103 and
R Vasudevan 2/92.
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We are reading about Lahli and Haryana because yesterday TN
played Ranji match against Mumbai there – yes, you are reading it right !!
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All
the matches in the upcoming Ranji Trophy cricket tournament are scheduled to be
played in neutral venues, according to
the fixture of the Domestic tournaments announced by the BCCI. BCCI’s technical
committee, headed by Sourav Ganguly, had recommended to hold the matches of its
premier domestic championship at neutral venues to make it more competitive. Neutral
venues will take away any home advantage as it will deny the home teams an
opportunity to make tailor-made pitches according to their strengths. According
to the fixture, the 83rd edition of the Ranji Trophy got underway on October 6
with Chhattisgarh making their first-class debut against Tripura in Ranchi.
They are the 10th team in Group C. Group A and Group B have nine teams each in the 28-team event.
Three teams from each of Group A and B and two sides from Group C will reach
the quarterfinals to be held from December 17-21. The semifinals will be held
from December 27-31 and the final will be played between January 7 and 11.
By
moving to neutral venues, the issue of pitches "doctored" to suit the
demands of the host team is neutralised completely. Since pitch preparation
will be out of the teams' domain, they will be forced to strive harder to pick
well-rounded cricketers. One argument against this it will wean away the
already thin crowds and matches may be played in front of empty stadiums. People are unlikely to turn up in numbers to
watch a match in which their home team isn't involved. Those of us who bought tickets and watched TN
Ranji matches know it well, that anyway, the crowds haven't been turning up for
Ranji games. So when people aren't turning up in any case, the argument that
home support is missing at neutral venues becomes moot. The Cricket Association of Bengal has shown
the way by getting people in for the Super League Cup final between two club
sides last month. The match was publicised quite heavily in the local media and
people were not just made aware of the fact that entry was free but also
encouraged to become a part of history. Matches
have to be played only in week-ends and perhaps entry fee lowered or made free
with some sponsors pitching in ~ BCCI has enough money in its coffers – and in
fact is threatening the Court to stop Ranji matches when Court imposes strict
actions.
Chaudhary
Bansi Lal Cricket Stadium at Lahli that can
accommodate only 8,000 spectators, became famous when Sachin Tendulkar played
his last Ranji match in Oct 2013. Yesterday at Lahli, defending champions
Mumbai pulled ahead against Tamil Nadu on a 14-wicket day. All 14 wickets went to the seamers, with
debutants Tushar Deshpande and K Vignesh returning figures of 4 for 25 and 2
for 5 respectively. Having been sent in, TN crashed to 87 all out, with only B
Aparajith and B Indrajith passing 15. In
the absence of Shardul Thakur, who had been called-up to the India Test squad
to replace the injured Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Dhawal Kulkarni made the early
running, taking out TN's top three. Deshpande, assisted by Balwinder Sandhu,
who took two wickets, then scythed through the middle and lower order. In
reply, Mumbai lost their openers Akhil Herwadkar and Jay Bista early, and
Vignesh hurt them further, but unbeaten twenties from Kaustubh Pawar and
captain Aditya Tare trimmed the deficit to two runs at stumps. Their unbroken
32-run stand was the highest on the opening day.
The
stadium is named after former CM of Haryana - Bansi Lal. Lal was elected to the
State Assembly seven times, the first time in 1967. He served three separate
terms as Chief Minister of Haryana; and served as the Defence Minister from
December 1975 to March 1977, and had a brief stint as a Minister Without
Portfolio in the Union government in 1975. He set up Haryana Vikas Party after
parting ways with the Indian National Congress in 1996.
With
regards – S. Sampathkumar
7th
Oct 2016.
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