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  • Cricket World Cup: Coming up in Oct-Nov, India vs Pak at Ahmedabad’s Modi Stadium

    The Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad has emerged as a result of the front-runner to host the high-profile India vs Pakistan match inside the ICC 50-over World Cup scheduled for October-November, the first match between the two arch-rivals on Indian soil since 2016.

    The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has decided to host the high-voltage match on the Ahmedabad stadium in anticipation of numerous followers who’re anticipated to journey to India from abroad for the fixture, it is learnt. With a seating functionality of 1 lakh, the Narendra Modi Stadium is the nation’s largest.

    The BCCI will most likely be asserting the World Cup schedule at a grand launch as quickly because the Indian Premier League, presently underway, is over, it is learnt.

    If each half goes as per schedule, the 50-over World Cup will kick off from October 5, with Nagpur, Bengaluru, Trivandrum, Mumbai, Delhi, Lucknow, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Rajkot, Indore, Bengaluru and  Dharamshala being short-listed as venues, even for comply with fixtures.

    Of these venues, nonetheless, solely seven will host India’s league matches. Ahmedabad might probably be the one venue the place India play two matches, supplied the workforce makes it to the final word.

    It is learnt that Pakistan would possibly end up having fun with most of their matches in Chennai and Bengaluru on account of security causes. Kolkata’s Eden Gardens may also be being thought-about as a venue. Similarly, Bangladesh would possibly moreover play most of their matches in Kolkata and Guwahati as it can reduce the journey distance for followers from the neighbouring nation.

    With October-November being the monsoon season, the BCCI is planning to wrap up the matches inside the nation’s southern parts sooner than the first week of November.

    The Indian Express has learnt that the BCCI moreover consulted with the Indian workforce administration and sought its preferences for the matches, aside from the one with Pakistan.

    The Indian workforce, sources talked about, requested the BCCI to allot fixtures in opposition to Australia, England, New Zealannd and South Africa to venues that assist spinners. It suggested the board that it prefers sluggish pitches as a result of it must maximise the so-called home profit, a growth it has been following over the last few years.

    “The Indian team has performed well on slow tracks in the past few years at home. So the team management had requested that whenever the schedule is being prepared the Indian team should face top teams on slow pitches. They wanted to have a home advantage,” a provide inside the BCCI talked about.

    Sources talked about the state objects have already given their need itemizing to the BCCI, nevertheless a reputation on allotment of the matches to venues might be taken solely by the BCCI. But they added there’s a sturdy chance of Chennai’s MA Chidambaram Stadium web internet hosting India’s match in opposition to Australia, whereas video video games in opposition to New Zealand, England, South Africa will most likely be carried out in numerous services the place pitches will most likely be sluggish.

    The BCCI has earmarked higher than Rs 500 crore to enhance stadiums all through the nation sooner than the 50-over World Cup. BCCI secretary Jay Shah had earlier stated that the board will most likely be upgrading its infrastructure, with clear bogs, fast entry and clear seats the very best priorities after newest criticism over the state of affairs of stadiums.

    “All existing infrastructure in the country will be upgraded before the World Cup. Assessment of the stadium has been done to engage with a wider cohort of fans in the IPL and during the World Cup. So upgrading infrastructure will be done during this period,” Shah talked about.

  • Ball caught in helmet, is {that a} catch? 3 out of 140 clear BCCI umpires’ check

    🔴 What will you do if the shadow of a pavilion, tree or fielder begins falling on the pitch and the batsman complains?

    🔴 You are glad {that a} participant has a real damage on the index finger of his bowling hand and eradicating the tape will end in bleeding. Will you continue to ask him to take away the protecting tape whereas bowling?

    🔴 The striker hits a good supply, which lodges within the helmet of the short-leg fielder. Because of the impression, the helmet comes off the fielder’s head and the ball remains to be caught within the helmet. The helmet falls…and the fielder catches it earlier than it falls on the bottom. On attraction, what’s your resolution?

    These are samples of the 37 mind-twisting questions that candidates needed to crack to clear the Indian cricket board’s level-2 examination for umpires, which was held final month in Ahmedabad. Clearing the examination makes them eligible to officiate girls’s and junior matches categorised as Group D — step one within the making of an Elite BCCI umpire who can stand in worldwide video games.

    Only three of the 140 aspirants made the lower.

    The cut-off was 90 marks out of 200 (100 for the written check, 35 for viva and video, and 30 for the bodily). It was for the primary time because the pandemic that the board included bodily assessments, maintaining with the rising bodily calls for of umpiring. The video check included match footage and questions on umpiring in particular conditions.

    Most carried out effectively in practicals however the written check was a hurdle too tall for them.

    A BCCI official instructed The Indian Express that the bar was set excessive to make sure that solely the perfect certified and progressed by means of the system. “Umpiring is a tough job. Only those who have the passion for it can really excel. The candidates sent by state associations weren’t upto the mark. They need to have this knowledge if they want to do the board’s games,” he stated.

    Now take into account the solutions to these three questions:

    🔴 The shadow of the pavilion or tree needs to be disregarded. Fielders needs to be requested to stay stationary, in any other case the umpire ought to name a lifeless ball.

    🔴 Bowler must take away the bandage if he needs to bowl.

    🔴 The right resolution is “Not Out”.

    According to the board official, the main target of the examination was not merely on legal guidelines and bylaws however about interpretation and implementation in a live-game scenario, on testing sensible reasoning moderately than theoretical data.

    The examination is a part of the board’s measures to lift the usual of Indian umpires after repeated complaints of their poor high quality within the home circuit. The IPL final yr was replete with howlers from Indian umpires, who confronted heavy criticism from former gamers.

    “What is happening with the umpiring @IPL, it’s quite pathetic and small bad decisions lead to big outcomes! Wake up and put some people who actually can be a ref!” wrote former India captain and opener Kris Srikkanth on Twitter.

    None of these choices was as obtrusive as an lbw resolution involving Virat Kohli off Dewald Brevis’ bowling in a high-octane recreation between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Mumbai Indians. The ball appeared to hit Kohli’s bat and pad concurrently however the on-field umpire gave him out. Kohli sought DRS however the third umpire stood along with his colleague’s resolution, a lot to the participant’s ire.

    A day after the match, the RCB Twitter deal with posted the related MCC legislation: “If the ball makes contact with the striker’s person and bat simultaneously, this shall be considered as the ball having first touched the bat.”

    BCCI outdated hand and former recreation growth supervisor Ratnakar Shetty says there must be a system in place.

    “BCCI must restart educational programmes for budding umpires in each state association. In 2006, the BCCI had identified a group of retired first class umpires and trained them to be educators. We used to depute two educators to each state unit, other than Mumbai, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu where regular umpire coaching happens,” Shetty stated.

    “The state units had to select 30 candidates and an eight-day course was conducted followed by theory and practical exams. Those who passed these exams were selected for level-2. Unfortunately, in the last two-three years, nothing much has happened due to Covid. I am sure the BCCI will take steps to train future umpires,” he stated.

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    Last month, the board got here up with a grading system for umpires — from A-plus to D, just like the contract system for gamers. Although India is the foremost cricketing power on the planet, it has not churned out high quality umpires proportionate to inhabitants, reputation or board energy.

    Nitin Menon, who’s on the present panel and is officiating the continued England vs South Africa Test, was simply the third Indian within the group after Srinivasa Venkataraghavan and Sundaram Ravi. The board is now severe about producing extra Indian umpires of worldwide class — because the mind-twisting level-2 examination confirmed.

  • BCCI’s Rs 18-crore Olympics invoice contains marketing campaign music by Mohit Chauhan, mementoes for Indian athletes

    Rs 7 crore for the commercial company that labored on the promotion of Tokyo Olympics in India; Rs 98 lakh for Olympics marketing campaign T-shirts; Rs 70 lakh for singer Mohit Chauhan who composed and sang the inspirational anthem, “Lakshya tere saamne hai, jeet ke aana (The target is in front of you, return as a winner)”, for the Indian contingent. These type part of the BCCI’s contribution to different sports activities in the course of the Covid-19 pandemic.

    In June 2021, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) had determined to increase assist to the Indian Olympic Association (IOA). “The summer Olympics is scheduled to be held in Tokyo from July 23 to August 8, 2021. The BCCI has decided to support Indian athletes in every form and manner it can. In that spirit, based on the request received from the IOA/ MYAS (Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports), the Apex Council of BCCI has decided to extend support to the Indian Olympic Association and has pledged a monetary gesture of Rs 10 crore,” it had stated in a press release.

    At its first post-pandemic bodily assembly on Thursday, the BCCI Apex Council tabled the break-up of its non-cricketing expenditure including as much as Rs 22 crore.

    The Board listed whole Olympics’ bills of over Rs 18 crore, together with Rs 68 lakh to an occasion administration firm, Rs 4 crore for money awards for medalists, and Rs 5 crore for buy of ‘PM Cares’ mementos for athletes.

    Besides these, the BCCI additionally listed Rs 3.8 crore for funding oxygen concentrators on the peak of the pandemic.

    The Apex Council assembly, chaired by BCCI president Sourav Ganguly and attended by secretary Jay Shah, treasurer Arun Dhumal, joint secretary Jayesh George amongst others, formally permitted these bills.

    “It is our responsibility to help other sports. All the members agreed to this expenditure,” stated a BCCI official on situation of anonymity.

    The Indian board’s new structure, drafted by the Supreme-Court nominated Lodha Committee, additionally directs the cricket board to assist different sports activities.

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    At its assembly, the Apex Council additionally permitted a rise within the prize cash for home cricket tournaments. At current, the winners of the Ranji Trophy, the nation’s premier home cricket match, get Rs 2 crore. The new prize cash is about to be introduced quickly.

    “The Apex Council has decided to give powers to office-bearers to decide on the revised prize money,” stated a BCCI official. The choice follows the windfall of Rs 48,390 crore from the sale of IPL media rights.

    There have been additionally discussions on introducing the Decision Review System (DRS) in home video games.

  • World Cups goal, BCCI tells gamers to observe health plan throughout IPL too

    TO AVOID premature damage breakdown and guarantee optimum health with two World Cups scheduled in as a few years, contracted Indian cricketers must observe a health plan designed by the National Cricket Academy (NCA) through the course of the IPL, which is about to start March 26. Earlier, as soon as gamers joined their IPL groups, they adopted the routine of their respective franchises.

    The NCA-monitored health plan has been put in place after the BCCI and selectors had been stored in the dead of night earlier concerning the health standing of high cricketers through the IPL.

    This season, physios and trainers of the NCA and head coach Rahul Dravid will likely be in contact with the nation’s high cricketers to make sure they persist with the plan, with the give attention to power and conditioning. The BCCI has knowledgeable the IPL groups concerning the direct function the NCA will play in health administration of gamers.

    As the BCCI strikes to a centralised system, the NCA, headed by VVS Laxman, will play a extra lively function in scientific health monitoring of the cricketers who’re a part of the core group anticipated to play within the T20 World Cup later this 12 months and the 50-over World Cup in 2023.

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    BCCI Secretary Jay Shah mentioned the target was to have readability on the health standing of gamers and to make sure that the utmost numbers of gamers are match and out there for choice for worldwide video games. In the run-up to the IPL, a two-week power and conditioning camp is being carried out on the NCA to watch health of gamers who aren’t a part of the Test squad enjoying Sri Lanka.

    “For us, fitness is paramount and we want our players to be fully fit before any bilateral series or international game. We have a fitness camp at the NCA and, going ahead, similar camps will be held. The goal is to have everyone on the same page when it comes to following the fitness plan set by the BCCI,” Shah instructed The Indian Express.

    Two years in the past, Mumbai Indians captain Rohit Sharma was rested for the T20 Internationals and ODIs in Australia due to a hamstring damage however performed the IPL remaining a day after the Indian group was chosen. The selectors additionally felt that there was lack of readability on Hardik Pandya’s health standing after his again surgical procedure, which restricted his bowling skill throughout this 12 months’s T20 World Cup within the UAE.

    However, gamers have been knowledgeable that the present health plan for the IPL just isn’t set in stone and that they’ve the choice of getting again to the NCA whether it is too taxing.

    “Coach Dravid said that you play 10 months for India and only two months for IPL. He told us to trust the support staff and NCA when it comes to fitness. A few players did express their concern about how IPL team physios and trainers would react. But we have been told to leave such issues to the BCCI. Players can also inform the NCA or the Indian team management if the training plan of the NCA is too difficult to follow during the IPL,” mentioned a cricketer.

  • Ganguly oversteps crease and guidelines to take a seat in choice conferences

    WHEN WRIDDHIMAN Saha expressed shock at being dropped from the Test workforce regardless of assurances from Sourav Ganguly, the Bengal wicket-keeper unwittingly drew consideration to a brand new follow that’s making a mockery of the cricket board’s governance norms: the previous India captain and current BCCI president’s unauthorised say in choice issues.

    The BCCI structure bars its president from having any function in choosing the nationwide workforce with the intention to retain the independence and autonomy of the choice committee. “The President is shorn of his say in selections,” the Supreme Court-approved structure says. The solely BCCI office-bearer authorised to be current is the secretary, who acts as a convenor and not using a say in choice.

    However, The Indian Express spoke to a few previous and current selectors below Ganguly’s tenure, who confirmed that he was a daily characteristic at choice conferences. A senior BCCI functionary went to the extent of claiming that Ganguly has attended each choice assembly since he took over as BCCI president in October 2019.

    Raising the difficulty of propriety, two selectors mentioned Ganguly would log in for on-line choice conferences and “because of his stature and position, no one could object”. One of them revealed that they usually felt “bullied” by his presence. “It made many committee members uncomfortable and guarded in expressing their opinion,” mentioned the selector, talking on the situation of anonymity.

    With Ganguly as BCCI chief, the choice committee has taken some key selections, together with the ouster of Virat Kohli as ODI skipper and captaincy for Rohit Sharma throughout codecs.

    Multiple sources within the Indian board confirmed Ganguly’s presence at choice conferences. They mentioned that contemplating the previous captain’s stature — he performed 113 Tests and 311 One-day Internationals — the less-experienced selectors had been “reluctant to express their opinion”. This has undermined the ability of Indian cricket’s all-important decision-making committee, they mentioned.

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    The present chairman of selectors, Chetan Sharma, has featured in 23 Tests and 65 One-day Internationals and his predecessor M S Okay Prasad in six Tests and 17 ODIs.

    The mixed expertise of the present group of selectors, which additionally consists of Debashish Mohanty, Sunil Joshi and Harvinder Singh, is 43 Tests and 195 ODIs. The earlier panel had performed 9 Tests and 28 ODIs between them.

    Last month, Saha spoke in regards to the message he had acquired from Ganguly after scoring a half-century towards New Zealand regardless of a neck harm.

    “After scoring 61 against New Zealand at Kanpur, Dadi (Ganguly) congratulated me over WhatsApp and mentioned, ‘As long as I’m here (helming the BCCI), you would be in the team’. Such a message from the BCCI president really boosted my confidence. What I’m struggling to understand is how things have changed so fast,” Saha had informed The Sunday Express, referring to his omission from the workforce for the Sri Lanka sequence.

    Ganguly’s proximity to the choice committee first got here to mild on October 24, 2019, a day after he was elected BCCI president, when the board tweeted an image with a caption: “All smiles at the Senior Selection Committee meeting earlier this afternoon as the teams for the forthcoming T20I & Test series against Bangladesh were announced.”

    The picture confirmed Ganguly seated between the then chief selector, Prasad, and BCCI secretary Jay Shah, and together with the then skipper Kohli, Rohit Sharma and different selectors.

    Recently, when the image began doing the rounds once more on social media, Ganguly denied the body was from a range assembly. In an interview with PTI, he mentioned: “I want to make it clear that the picture wasn’t from a selection committee meeting.”

    About allegations of him influencing workforce choice, he informed the information company: “I don’t think I need to answer anybody, anything (on this) and dignify any of these baseless accusations. I am the president of the BCCI and I do the job of what the president of the BCCI should be doing. (I have played) 424 international matches for India. Not a bad idea at times to remind people about it, isn’t it?”

    When The Indian Express despatched an in depth questionnaire to Ganguly on the difficulty, he didn’t reply.