The BCCI Has Reportedly Decided To Prune The Domestic Cricket Season:
It was reported earlier that during the Apex Council meeting on Friday (July 17), the Board discussed issues such as the IPL and the domestic calendar, but did not come to a conclusion. However, according to the Times of India report, the Board decided not to organize the Duleep Trophy, the Deodhar Trophy, the Vijay Hazare Trophy, and the CK Nayudu U-23 tournament. The Board wishes to host the Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 tournament on its own this year.
Although the Ranji Trophy is likely to return to its original formats for this season, in which teams will be divided into five regions, geographically-i.e. East, West, North, South, and Central. The initial matches will be played within the zones to determine the winner, following which the five individual zone winners will compete in the knockout tournament to decide the final winner, according to the report.
Senior BCCI official told the leading media house, “There is no point in calling up a calendar without understanding what the COVID situation will be in December-January 2021. Obviously, you can take it for granted that the Duleep Trophy and the Vijay Hazare Trophy would be excluded from the men’s itinerary.
BCCI is concerned that first-class players could lose up to Rs 8 to 10 lakh due to a short domestic season. Ahmedabad is the only way to stay. Contrary to reports that there could be multiple options for India’s training camp, the official said that only Ahmedabad is currently being considered at the newly built GCA facility in Motera (India’s largest cricket stadium).
“Motera Stadium is a state-of-the-art stadium with 60 living rooms within the building, which will be very convenient to build a bio-bubble for players and support staff. Let me tell you that Dubai was not even mentioned as a training site for the Indian team. “Dharamsala is the second choice,” he said.
