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Mumbai: The Indian under-21 cricket team has been invited to take part in the 11th South Asian Games at Dhaka, in which the Twenty20 format has been introduced, early next year.
The invitation to the Cricket Board to send the under-21 squad for the multi-discipline event, scheduled from January 29 to February 9, 2010, has been forwarded by the Indian Olympic Association, according to informed sources.
The South Asia Olympic Council has introduced cricket as one of the 22 disciplines in the SAG, IOA secretary-general Randhir Singh has informed the Board.
The Indian team would be a major attraction in the SAG, Singh said, while requesting the BCCI to confirm participation in the event at the earliest.
The cricketers should be aged below 21 as on January 28, Randhir has informed the Board.
The only time an Indian cricket squad has taken part in a multi-discipline event was at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur.
A major controversy had erupted then when the full squad was split into two, as the Games clashed with India's one-day series against Pakistan in Toronto, with one team sent to the CWG and the other to Canada.
Australia, with a full-strength team, won the title.
