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Sam Sooppersaud

    Now that the holidays are about over, we, the cricket fans who want to see our game move to a higher level, must get back to the task of working towards achieving this end. Firstly, I hope that everyone had an enjoyable and peaceful holiday season. It is my wish  in this new year, that we all concentrate our collective efforts towards building a cricket structure that would propel  our game forward, be it at the club level, the league level, the regional level, or the national level. Let us work selflessly- without the thought of "what's in it for me"- so that ultimately the winner would be Cricket.

    I have recommenced my campaign to bring about a better administered USACA, a USACA that would command the loyalty and respect of the cricket fraternity in this country. Sadly, at this juncture of time, our main cricket administration body is lacking this kind of allegiance. For this allegiance, I would continue to work.

    In keeping with my goal I have already began "talking cricket" with interested persons around the US of A. This morning (Monday, January 2, 2012, I had a long and fruitful conversation with a former New Yorker, now a Floridian, Orville Hall, to say the least of him, an ardest cricket man! He is the pointman in the campaign of presidential candidate, former USACA VP, Nabeel Ahmed. Nabeel is committed to the proper functioning of USACA and is concerned that other candidates may be embarking on actions that would hurt our cricket in the long run.

    Mr. Nabeel Ahmed is committed to solving USACA's problems "inhouse", meaning that he prefer that our cricket fraternity solve our stalemate in and with USACA. He did not use any names, but you the readers, would recall that another presidential candidate, Mr. Ram Varadarajan, has written to the ICC requesting that they intervene and help to solve USACA's  administrative  problems. He has also indicated that he is prepared to file a lawsuit against USACA to bring about a solution. Nabeel is quick to tell you that this course of action would hurt USA cricket, by attaching a stigma to our ruling cricket body and more importantly would hurt CHALLC by driving away potential investors. It is the hope that Professional T20 Cricket would inaugurate in the USA by the middle of this year. USACA and CHALLC are working towards this end. Let us support this effort.

    Orville Hall and myself touched on several keys issues that needed to be addressed by the various presidential candidates. He made it abundantly clear to me that Nabeel strongly feel that a face to face debate among the various candidates is necessary to facilitate the electorates (league presidents) in making a wise choice at election time. With all the dissatisfaction being voiced about the present USACA Board, the question being asked is this, "do we want to get rid of (Mr.) Dainty, or (each candidate) want to become the president".  Ponder this!

    Following is the statement in its entirety prepared and sent to me by the Nabeel campaign.   

 

 January 3, 2012

 To Sam Soopersaud:

For immediate release

 

Let's get moving with USACA's business

I have been quiet for sometime since USACA elections have been delayed and the compliance process started. My campaign is about to restart now that the election dates are announced.
After several false starts, let's see if It'll happen this time.
As you recall after my resignation, and until now, I have not taken or threatened to take any legal action against USACA and have not written to ICC. I consider USACA our domestic problem and we need to resolve it in-house.

I recommend to every candidate who is getting prepared to run for any position, especially for the presidency, not to take any action which can ultimately hurt the USACA brand.

Writing to ICC and threatening to file a law suit against USACA will not resolve the issues. We are adults, and must be mature enough to fix our problems internally; even ICC wants us to follow that trend.

If anything, writing to ICC or filing a law suit against USACA, especially by a member  who is sitting on LLC appointed by USACA or sitting on USACA board, will hurt USACA, and subsequently hurt LLC as well. This could create a panic situation among the LLC investors, and in the process USA cricket will be the loser, and the LLC might lose its investors. This kind of action by a board member can put LLC in serious jeopardy.

In the end, I recommend that we should prepare for the upcoming elections and at the same time be a loyal customer of USA cricket. We should help the system to achieve the goal of commencing the much needed elections soon, instead of threatening to file law suits and tarnishing the image of the LLC and USACA in the process.

Once again I appeal for a presidential debate, arranged by USACA prior to the elections, so the voters (league presidents)  can make their choice after hearing the plans, vision and mission of the candidates.

Nabeel Ahmed