India to skip Asian Games again

The BCCI has continued to stay away from multinational games by refusing to field the women's and the men's cricket teams in the forthcoming Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea from September 19 to October 4.

According to the list of participating teams for the men's and women's cricket events, India is the only Test nation from Asia to not participate. While Pakistan have entered only in the women's event, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh will be playing in both categories. Even after the list of participating teams was made public on the Asian Cricket Council's website, BCCI secretary Sanjay Patel said the board, "was considering whether to be a part of Asian Games".

Indians now claiming to be Arabs ?  :-\

[color=rgb(51, 51, 51)]I am sure the reason BCCI didn't want to send them was BCCI being a non-government entity, would have to fund the team's expenses rather than the Indian government.They are selfish and not caring about the development of the game.[/color]
[color=rgb(51, 51, 51)]getting more exposure would have been great for the women's team..[/color]

Disappointing decision by the BCCI which has traditionally avoided multi cultural events like these which it does not control. The official release is that the team will be busy playing other matches but really such scheduling issues could easily have been avoided if there was any original intent to participate in the Asian Games in the first place. Oh and India is the only Asian country NOT to participate in this event.