JKCA accuses Parvez Rasool of stealing pitch roller, cricketer hits back calling it 'unfortunate'

There has been a war of words between the Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association(JKCA) and cricketer Parvez Rasool over the issue of a missing pitch roller, as per a report by The Indian Express.

The matter has gone so worse that the JKCA has threatened to file a police complaint against the cricketer if he does not hand over the roller to the administrator.

In his reply to the cricket governing body in the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir, Rasool has asked if the treatment met out to him is the right way to treat an international cricketer who has given his “life and soul”.

However, one of the three members of the sub-committee appointed by the BCCI to run JKCA, Brigadier (Retd) Anil Gupta, has said that the matter has been “hyped up” because Rasool was included in the email seeking the whereabouts of the roller sent to all administrators. He said that Rasool’s name was on the list of beneficiaries for the email as the JKCA register showed his name as an official from the Bijbehara region from where the all-rounder belongs.

“We have not only written to Parvez Rasool but to all district associations and whosoever has taken JKCA machinery from Srinagar. Machinery was distributed at district associations without any vouchers. In many districts where we don’t have a mailing address, the letter was sent to the concerned person whose name was registered with us. He (Rasool) took offence to why the mail was written to him,” Gupta told The Indian Express.