| In less than a year, he has changed the face of MCA & BCCI. His love for the game and his visionary approach has resulted in several landmark achievements. His first goal was to bring about transparency in the Board and to professionalise working. |
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Under his leadership BCCI has made some outstanding achivements in the marketing of Indian Cricket. The revenue of the Board has increased several times thanks to a transparent bidding process. |
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Hon. Sharad Pawar extended the pension scheme to the widows of past test cricketers for their life time. |
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Pension scheme was also introduced for Ranji Trophy cricketers and umpires. |
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It was his idea that cricket and BCCI must support other games. A corpus fund of Rs.50 crores has been set up to support talanted juniors who are the medal prospects in Olympic sports. |
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Under his leadership, BCCI took the historic decision to donate for charitable causes. |
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India and Pakistan played two games at Abudhabi and donated 7.5 million US Dollars to the quake affected in Pakistan and 2.5 million US Dollars to the earth quake affected people of India (Kashmir). |
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The match fees payble to domestic cricketers was increased by almost 4 times the usual amount. |
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Associations would get financial assistance of upto 25 crores. |
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He was the main person behind establishing the BCCI office (Headquarters) in Mumbai. |
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He is highly respected by cricketers of all generations. |
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Under his guidance, the ICC Championship Trophy was hosted successfully in India. |
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India has won the bids for the prestigious ICC-World-2011 event. |
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He took the steps to bring womens cricket under BCCI. |
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He was the President of ACC from 1st January 2006 to 16th June 2006. |
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| Hon. Sharad Pawar has a unique personality respected by cricket players of all ages and generations. Today India holds a position and name in the International Cricket World only because of some monumental decisions taken by Hon. Sharad Pawar. Our best wishes for this excellent health so that he gets the honour of becoming Chairman of ICC in coming years. Thus glorifying India's name further in the global scenario. |
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