ACSSI enters twenty-first year of helping scorers and statisticians

Mumbai, Jun 12 (UNI) The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Scorers of India (ACSSI) today celebrated their 20 years of existence.

The association had been formed on June 12, 1987 at Prabhu Desai Hall of the Wankhede Stadium, with the aim of being able to get information from all statisticians particularly local cricket about statistics of First Class and Test cricket and make them available to all.

The association was formed with an ad-hoc committee comprising Sudhir Vaidya as convener and Marcus Couto, Shirish Konkar, Mohandas Menon, Pradeep Jadhav and Yeshwant Chad as members.

The main founders of this association have been Shirish Konkar and Marcus Couto and while the former has remained with the association for the last twenty years and contributed to the association in various posts. Marcus Couto left the association after he brought in 100 members.

Other than these two, the others who have contributed and made this association stronger as the years have rolled by are Anandji Dossa who is still fit and keeps enquiring about the activities of the association from his house.

Dr. Vasant Naik, who has since passed away, Mohandas Menon who has been responsible for the publication of Anka and all other publications. Solid structural backing came from Dara Pochkhanawalla, although he was not in the forefront, his guidance has been the back bone of the association and has remained in the managing committee from inception and seen through these 20 glorious years.

Others who have helped the growth of the association have been scorers Pradeep Jadhav and Yeshwant Chad and test umpire A M Mamsa who helped the association in its early days.

The associations has indeed come a long way since its foundation having conducted courses on their own and later with the cricket associations at Mumbai (10), Nagpur, Rajkot(2), Ahmedabad (2), Indore, Vizag, Surat and Pune.

The BCCI has also given recognition to the services of the association and asked them to conduct courses for them at Nagpur, Ahmedabad, Kolkata, Kanpur, Bangalore and Indore, including Computer workshops.

The BCCI panel of 132 scorers are trained and tested by the association. A Statistician Workshop was also held at Nagpur last year with the association having bigger and better plans to make them stronger to face the new challenges lying ahead of them.

UNI