Shillong, Nov 20: The BCCI has entrusted Meghalaya Cricket Association President Nababrata Bhattacharjee with a big responsibility, that of Manager of the Indian Senior Women’s Cricket Team as they travel to Australia for a three-match ODI series against the host country next month.
The task is also a great honour and a measure of the confidence the BCCI has in Bhattacharjee, one of the North East’s foremost cricket administrators.
The Indian contingent will depart from Mumbai on 30 November enroute to Brisbane, which will host the first two ODIs on 5 and 8 December at the Allan Border Field. The third one day match will move to the famous WACA Ground in Perth on 11 December. The series is part of the 2022-2025 ICC Women’s Championship. The Indian team will be captained by Harmanpreet Kaur, with Smriti Mandhana the vice-captain.
“It is an honour and recognition of my state and all cricketers and cricket-loving people of Meghalaya,” Bhattacharjee said today. “I shall continue to strive to promote the game further among the youth of the indigenous community covering all districts. My gratitude to Shri Jay Shah, Honorary Secretary of the BCCI, for the job assigned to me.”
Bhattacharjee, who has been working for the development of cricket in Meghalaya for over 15 years, has also served in the NADP (New Area Development Programme) Committee of the BCCI in 2016 and was part of the seven-member BCCI Committee, together with Shah, Rajeev Shukla, Sourav Ganguly and others in 2017, to review the recommendation of the Justice RM Lodha Committee, which led to Meghalaya and five other North East states receiving full membership of the BCCI, a campaign that Bhattacharjee was at the forefront of. He was also part of the BCCI delegation in the two-match series in 2016 organised between India and West Indies in Florida for promotion of cricket in the USA.
