Officials from the Cricket Board of Maldives met with the Honourable Irutisham Adam, Minister of Youth & Sports as well as Abdul Muhusin Hameed, Deputy Minister of Youth & Sports on Wednesday 2nd November to discuss a variety of cricket and sport related topics.
Cricket Board of Maldives President Mohamed Aflah, Executive Committee Members Ahmed Kaleem, Ali Manik, Mohamed Faisal, Afzal Jaleel, and General Secretary Ibrahim Shaaz Habeeb raised an agenda that covered challeges facing C.B.M. in development of cricket.
With great support from the government development of the most successful sport in Maldives history can be achieved by allocating land in Hulhumalé for a purpose built stadium, a ‘Cricket House’ to achieve an income to become financially self sustainable, and working hand in hand with the Ministry of Youth & Sports to provide the permission to install practice and match facilities around the country – in particular within Vilimalé.
The meeting also addressed the challenges facing cricket practices and matches at Ekuveni Cricket Ground in Malé and a number of solutions were evaluated.
The C.B.M. used this opportunity to inform the Hon. Ministers about tournament and competition plans around the country and provided a report about the recent successful C.B.M. XI that defeated a Sri Lanka team in both the matches played. The success of these matches can be built upon and provide foundations to a successful National Team in the near future.
This recent tour was evidence that ‘Sports Tourism’ has the potential to be a development and finaicial success with touring parties eager to visit and play competetive cricket within our facilities.
On this note the Hon. Ministers requested the C.B.M. to provide a detailed plan of how this would work in Hulhumalé.
Finally, the matter of budgets and assistance was discussed and a new Strategic Plan founded on the C.B.M. President Mohamed Aflah and his EXCO teams’ vision of cricket shall be completed and presented to the M.Y.S.
It is a great opportunity for the C.B.M. to share it’s visions and be afforded the time and support from the Ministry of Youth & Sport to reach the common goal of sport success for our nation.
