SHARJAH // A team of the UAE's most promising young players will share the limelight with the Indian cricketers Ishant Sharma, Yusuf Pathan and Mohammed Kaif in a Twenty20 tournament this month.
The Sharjah-based Young Talents Cricket Academy (YTCA) have been invited to play in a 20-over competition in Sisra in the Indian state of Haryana over the next fortnight.
The UAE team are one of three foreign sides who will travel to the event. One of the others, Lahore Lions, are likely to include the Pakistani Test players Taufeeq Umar and Naved Latif in their ranks.
The JCD International Cricket League has adopted the Indian Premier League as its template, and matches will be staged at the Jan Nayak Chaudhary Devi Lal national cricket academy. Digvijay Singh,the tournament's chairman, said: "Around 2,000 budding players had given trials and we have selected 40 out of them. Nine of these 40 players are playing in this tournament."
The 16-match tournament carries with it a prize of Rs 500,000 (Dh41,120) for the winners.
The YTCA, run by the former UAE seamer Shahzad Altaf, has been a prolific source of talent over the years. Six of the UAE squad which reached last month's ACC Trophy final graduated from the academy, while Altaf's son, Rameez Shahzad, is seen as the brightest prospect in the country.
YTCA Squad: Rameez Shahzad (Captain), Anil Raju Adnani (Vice-captain), Harsh Chaturvedi, Umair Shaz Peshimam, Abhishek Kapoor, Prashant Gupta, Punit Mehra, Nalin Khaitan, Vivek Reji Thomas, Manish Dhakan, Shashwat Trivedi.
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Name: Kumulus Water
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Based: Tunisia
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The smuggler
Eldarir had arrived at JFK in January 2020 with three suitcases, containing goods he valued at $300, when he was directed to a search area.
Officers found 41 gold artefacts among the bags, including amulets from a funerary set which prepared the deceased for the afterlife.
Also found was a cartouche of a Ptolemaic king on a relief that was originally part of a royal building or temple.
The largest single group of items found in Eldarir’s cases were 400 shabtis, or figurines.
Khouli conviction
Khouli smuggled items into the US by making false declarations to customs about the country of origin and value of the items.
According to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, he provided “false provenances which stated that [two] Egyptian antiquities were part of a collection assembled by Khouli's father in Israel in the 1960s” when in fact “Khouli acquired the Egyptian antiquities from other dealers”.
He was sentenced to one year of probation, six months of home confinement and 200 hours of community service in 2012 after admitting buying and smuggling Egyptian antiquities, including coffins, funerary boats and limestone figures.
For sale
A number of other items said to come from the collection of Ezeldeen Taha Eldarir are currently or recently for sale.
Their provenance is described in near identical terms as the British Museum shabti: bought from Salahaddin Sirmali, "authenticated and appraised" by Hossen Rashed, then imported to the US in 1948.
- An Egyptian Mummy mask dating from 700BC-30BC, is on offer for £11,807 ($15,275) online by a seller in Mexico
- A coffin lid dating back to 664BC-332BC was offered for sale by a Colorado-based art dealer, with a starting price of $65,000
- A shabti that was on sale through a Chicago-based coin dealer, dating from 1567BC-1085BC, is up for $1,950
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