Former India skipper and all-rounder Kapil Dev would deliver the
annual Dilip Sardesai Memorial Lecture at the Cricket Club of India on
Thursday, in place of the original speaker, former Pakistan captain
Imran Khan.
"Imran is stuck with the political situation in Pakistan. Kapil Dev
is now going to deliver the lecture on the future of Indian Cricket,"
said sources connected with the function.
Imran, the 1992 World Cup-winning skipper, who is heading a political
party in his country, was to speak on how India-Pakistan cricket can be
used to bridge the gap between the two neighbouring sub-continent
countries.
The sources insisted that the change of speakers at the annual
lecture in memory of former Test cricket Sardesai, who died on July 2,
2007, had nothing to do with the earlier controversy, in which, another
function at the CCI relating to a former Pakistan cricketer, the book
release of Shoaib Akhtar's autobiography 'Controversially Yours', was
cancelled.
Akhtar had made controversial remarks about two icons of the Indian
squad, Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid, to kick up a storm in the
country and the function was cancelled due to "unforeseen
circumstances".
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