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  • Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 from October, Ranji Trophy returns in January 2022

    Ranji Trophy, India’s premier home cricket match, will return in January 2022 after the pandemic made it a no-show final season, the primary break in its 87-year historical past. The home cricket season will kick off this September with the U-19 boys one-day match, the Vinoo Mankad Trophy, to be performed in a bio-bubble surroundings.
    For seniors, the BCCI has deliberate the Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 match from the third week of October adopted by one-day Vijay Hazare Trophy in November. If all the pieces goes easily the board desires to have its Ranji Trophy and U-25 video games in January 2022. The girls’s senior and U- 25 video games will even be performed then.
    The Indian Express understands that BCCI joint secretary Jayesh George has been given cost of getting ready the home calendar for the forthcoming season. A tentative schedule was despatched by the secretary Jay Shah in July however the board needed to alter its previous schedule because of the IPL mega public sale and the pandemic. As per the previous schedule which was circulated earlier, the board was planning to host its Ranji Trophy from November 16 to February 19m 2022 however has now determined to conduct Vijay Hazare Trophy in November. The state associations will likely be knowledgeable in regards to the new schedule subsequent week. The Indian board has gone again to the previous season system the place 5 Elite teams could have six groups apiece whereas the remaining eight groups will type one plate group. A safe bio-bubble will likely be fashioned and the groups must examine in three days prematurely at their respective venues.
    The Indian board has determined to conduct U-19 video games first to organize and choose the group for the ICC below 19 World Cup, scheduled to be held in West Indies in January 2022. Owing to the pandemic, the board couldn’t conduct any junior cricket for the final one 12 months.
    The BCCI will even announce a brand new five-member junior choice committee sooner or later. However, it’s not clear whether or not the board will go forward with U-16 tournaments regardless of asserting it earlier.

  • Unfair to check organisation of 60 IPL video games to 2000 plus home video games: BCCI secy Jay Shah

    There is a world of distinction between organising 60 Indian Premier League matches and 2000-plus home video games, stated BCCI secretary Jay Shah as he rejected “unfair and unwarranted” criticism that the Board priortised the cash-rich occasion over nationwide tournaments just like the Ranji Trophy.
    Last yr, the blue riband Ranji Trophy in addition to junior cricket weren’t held due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the operational difficulties of making a bio-secure setting for hundreds of gamers and help employees.
    While gamers misplaced out on vital earnings, the BCCI copped numerous flak for an excessive amount of deal with the cash-rich league.
    “I feel the criticism is unwarranted and unfair. In 2020 as well, in the middle of the pandemic, we conducted Syed Mushtaq Ali tournament, Vijay Hazare tournament and Senior Women’s One-day tournament taking all precautions,” Shah, who was in Muscat and Dubai, to supervise T20 World Cup and IPL preparations, was quoted as saying by “Gulf News”.
    Shah stated the variety of matches and required logistics between two tournaments are incomparable.
    “It received’t be a good evaluation if IPL is in contrast with different Indian home tournaments. The IPL has a franchise mannequin and a platform for the world’s finest cricketers, coaches, help employees to return and showcase their expertise.
    “The Indian domestic season has over 2000 games, whereas the IPL has 60 matches. With a cricketing set-up as big and as diverse as India’s, it is not easy to conduct a full season when so many states are grappling with COVID caseloads,” Shah defined.
    In case of IPL, it’s all the time been a seven-week affair whereas a whole home season with males, girls’s and age-group cricket takes round six months to be accomplished with 38 groups in fray.
    “You also have to factor in the time taken to have an entire domestic season and the travel that is included. They are putting their lives at risk, which should never be the case. It is not ideal to have age-group tournaments in such an environment and put careers of young cricketers at risk,” Shah reasoned about not having any U-19 or U-16 tournaments final yr.
    “However, with the situation improving, we have announced a full season comprising 2127 domestic games across age groups for both men and women,” he stated.
    The BCCI has just lately revealed the dates of the total home season that begins in September this yr and ends in April subsequent yr.

  • Former Rajasthan leg-spinner Vivek Yadav succumbs to COVID-19

    Vivek Yadav, a former Rajasthan leg-spinner and a member of their Ranji Trophy-winning squad, died of coronavirus-related issues.
    He was 36-years-old and is survived by his spouse and a daughter.
    Yadav breathed his final at a metropolis hospital on Wednesday.
    “Rajasthan Ranji Player and a dear friend…Vivek Yadav is no more. May his soul R.I.P. Thoughts and prayers with the family,” former India opener Aakash Chopra tweeted.
    Yadav, who performed 18 first-class matches and picked up 57 wickets, featured within the 2010-11 Ranji Trophy closing, his best hour in a quick home profession.
    He scalped 4/91 within the Baroda first innings with 4 of the highest 5 within the batting order organising an all-important first-innings lead for Rajasthan.
    He had performed his final aggressive match even earlier than he had turned 30.
    Yadav was present process therapy for most cancers and had gone to the hospital for his chemotherapy, the place he was examined and returned optimistic for COVID-19.
    His well being deteriorated earlier than he misplaced his battle towards the dreaded virus.

  • Former stars sympathise with home gamers however agree holding Ranji Trophy wasn’t possible

    The COVID-19 pandemic has completed what even the Second World War couldn’t: bring to an end the Ranji Trophy’s 87-year-old continuous journey.
    And eminent gamers of the previous, lots of whom had used the nation’s premier home match as a platform to announce their arrival, sympathised with the present lot of cricketers, but in addition agreed with the BCCI’s unprecedented determination to not conduct the match for the primary time since its inception in 1934-35.
    “I am sympathetic to what players might be feeling but I think whatever decision BCCI has taken is in the best interest of everyone,” former India keeper Chandrakant Pandit, one of many nation’s best home coaches, advised PTI on Sunday.
    The board has knowledgeable its associates that the truncated season would comprise the Vijay Hazare Trophy, senior ladies’s one-day match and the Vinoo Mankad Trophy for under-19 boys.
    “I am happy that there is at least two tournaments happening. Could a truncated Ranji Trophy been an option? I don’t know but BCCI, in a short span, also had to organise the Vinoo Mankad Trophy keeping the U-19 World Cup in mind.”

    The BCCI has 38 first-class groups after the inclusion of northeastern states and Uttarakhand coach Wasim Jaffer, who’s the match’s most prolific performer ever, cited the sensible difficulties.
    “Ideally, I would have liked Ranji Trophy to happen, there is no doubt about it. But obviously with 38 teams, so many players, the venues and all that, probably it was a bit difficult logistically, so I can understand,” the previous India opener, who has received a number of Ranji titles with Mumbai and Vidarbha, stated.
    But for somebody, who’s a bona fide Ranji legend, the premier nationwide match’s absence does rankle.
    “I mean still very sad after so many years, for the first time the Ranji is not happening, so it is obviously is going to be sad, especially the players who play only red-ball format, they are not going to play red-ball tournament for a good 18 months,” Jaffer identified the flip aspect of it.
    For a state group common and not using a naked minimal IPL contract (Rs 20 lakh), a full season of Ranji, Vijay Hazare, Mushtaq Ali, Duleep Trophy would imply earnings of round Rs 15 to twenty lakh per season and this time will probably be lower than half.
    But the BCCI has promised a compensation for home gamers and which may herald some monetary respite.

    “Playing Vijay Hazare Trophy, you get 35-40,000 per sport (Rs 35,000 for Hazare, 17,500 for Mushtaq Ali) and that isn’t sufficient.
    “That money also comes in after six-eight months, so the guys who are only dependent on match fees with a family to feed will be in for hard times,” Jaffer added.
    However, one other home stalwart Ashok Malhotra, who can be the president of Indian Cricketers’ Association (ICA), feels that 4 months of Ranji Trophy in a bio-bubble was by no means going to be a sustainable concept.
    “The BCCI has already mentioned in its AGM {that a} compensation package deal shall be devised. I not too long ago did commentary for BCCI in Mushtaq Ali Trophy and I used to be in a bio bubble for an excellent two and half weeks.
    “It is a very tough life even at my age so just think that was it practical to put 800 domestic cricketers in three and half month bio-bubble,” Malhotra reasoned.
    Bengal’s bowling coach Ranadeb Bose, a distinguished home star in his personal proper, additionally had current expertise of staying in a bubble.
    “Every second day you’re having a swab take a look at, your pulse and oxygen rely is being checked and your actions are restricted.
    “Ranji Trophy is a close to four-month train when you have a full match. You bubble is sacrosanct. There are cricketers with aged mother and father or toddlers at house and also you don’t get to fulfill them.
    “You are confined to same hotel room for months. Not great for mental health and I feel BCCI has done the right thing organising Vijay Hazare Trophy,” Bose stated.
    For Jaffer, who’s teaching Uttarakhand, the first intention was to succeed in Elite Group this 12 months however that received’t occur now as a result of break as there isn’t a promotion or relegation in white ball tournaments.
    “Ranji Trophy would have helped us to check where we (Uttarakhand) stand in red ball cricket but that is not going to happen. But from the positive point of view, I am happy that cricket is happening, players have something to play for,” stated Jaffer.
    But what about those that get chosen for India A by way of Ranji Trophy? Both Bose and Malhotra felt that isn’t an issue contemplating India’s prime 20-22 cricketers are computerized picks.
    “Let’s be honest, you may have had at the max one player, who would be considered for A team after one good Ranji season. Others are all regular performers,” Bose stated.
    Malhotra gave the instance of Abhimanyu Easwaran, who, regardless of not having a single fifty final season, is in India stand-bye due to his previous performances.
    “Easwaran had two to three good seasons before one bad season. So selectors were right in keeping him in reserves,” Malhotra concluded.

  • No Ranji Trophy this season, BCCI set to host 50-over Vijay Hazare, Women’s and U-19 tournaments

    Image Source : BCCI The BCCI secretary Jay Shah wrote a letter to the state associations, stating that the choice was taken with a watch on the coronavirus pandemic and the suggestions from the state cricket our bodies.
    As the 2020/21 version of the Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 match reaches its finish on Sunday, the BCCI appears to have taken the choice over the remainder of the cricket calendar for the home season. The board is ready to host the Vijay Hazare 50-over match, the senior ladies’s one-dayers and the U-19 Vinoo Mankad Trophy.

    According to ANI, the BCCI secretary Jay Shah wrote a letter to the state associations, stating that the choice was taken with a watch on the coronavirus pandemic and the suggestions from the state cricket our bodies.

    “The pandemic has tested each and every one of us and there is no life that has remain untouched by it, and while it has been difficult, your support has meant that we have been able to resume both domestic and international cricket in the men’s category,” Shah wrote, as quoted by ANI.

    “As you might be conscious, now we have misplaced a number of time and consequently, it has been tough to plan th cricket calendar on account of the precautions which might be needed for the secure conduct of the video games.

    “However, it was extremely important for us to ensure that women’s cricket takes place and I am extremely happy to inform you that we are going to conduct the Senior Women’s One Day tournament simultaenously with the Vijay Hazare Trophy and follow it up with the Vinoo Mankad Trophy Under-19. This has been decided after having received your feedback on the domestic season 2020-21.”

    The dates are but to be confirmed.

    This implies that the Ranji Trophy for the 2020-21 season stands cancelled.

    The letter additional said that the Vijay Hazare Trophy will happen earlier than the 2021 version of the Indian Premier League, and Jay Shah additionally hinted at internet hosting a couple of video games earlier than the public sale, which is scheduled to happen on Feburary 18.

    The worldwide cricket motion is ready to return to India on February 5 when the nation hosts England for a four-match Test sequence, adopted by 5 T20Is and three ODIs.

  • No Ranji Trophy this season, BCCI opts for 50-over Vijay Hazare

    The Ranji Trophy gained’t be held in the course of the truncated 2020-21 season, as a substitute the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has determined to conduct the 50-over Vijay Hazare Trophy and the senior girls’s One-day event.
    In a letter to state associations on Friday, BCCI secretary Jay Shah whereas highlighting the time misplaced due to the pandemic, wrote, “it is extremely important for us to ensure that women’s cricket takes place and I am extremely happy to inform you that we are going to conduct the Senior Women’s One day tournament simultaneously with the Vijay Hazare Trophy and follow it up with Vinoo Mankad Trophy Under 19. This has been decided after having received your feedback on the domestic season 2020-21.”
    However, the BCCI has determined to compensate home gamers for the match charges they’d have earned in the course of the Ranji Trophy, roughly Rs 45000 a day.
    It is learnt that Vijay Hazare will likely be performed alongside the strains of the on-going Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy — in six designated bio bubbles. The venues will likely be finalised subsequent week and the groups will enter the bio-bubble within the first week of February.The event is predicted to run for a month. The BCCI is operating in need of time as a result of the Indian Premier League might begin by the tip of March, which suggests home gamers, who’re a part of the groups, must be out there to play within the T20 league.
    The BCCI had consulted the state cricket associations about which home tournaments to conduct within the pandemic-affected season. A majority of them had been in favour of the 50-over format over the four-day Ranji Trophy.
    In the letter to the state associations, Shah wrote, “The pandemic has tested each and every one of us and there is no life that has remain untouched by it, and while it has been difficult, your support has meant that we have been able to resume both domestic and international cricket in the men’s category. As you are aware, we have lost a lot of time and consequently, it has been difficult to plan the cricket calender…”

  • BCCI Apex Meet on Jan 17: Ranji Trophy from Feb in ‘Mushtaq-like bubble’, FTP 2023-31 up for dialogue

    Image Source : PTI BCCI 
    The Indian cricket board is all set to organise a curtailed Ranji Trophy match from subsequent month, and in all chance, in the identical six bio-bubbles created for the continuing Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy.
    A choice close to this will likely be taken throughout the BCCI Apex Council Meeting on January 17, scheduled to be held just about.
    There are seven gadgets on the agenda and proper on the high of the listing is home cricket, which additionally contains junior and ladies’s classes.
    “As of now, there is 90 per cent chance that Ranji Trophy will start in February and we will have the same six bio-bubbles created for the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy. The groupings will also be same — five groups of six teams each and one group of eight teams,” a senior BCCI supply, aware of the event, advised PTI on situations of anonymity.
    The logic behind having the identical bio-bubbles is that it is already set and will likely be extra handy for operational functions.
    “It could well happen that the league stage of the Ranji Trophy will be held before the IPL and then the knockouts, quarters, semifinals and final held after the T20 league so that best teams don’t lose out on best players. It’s up for discussion. The women’s national tournament will be on and all age-group tournament will be held,” the supply stated.

    Other Items on agenda
    ICC FTP Cycle 2023-2031: The new ICC FTP Cycle for the interval 2023-2031 may see the BCCI asking for an even bigger IPL window for the 10-team match that’s set to begin from subsequent 12 months.
    The IPL would require a minimal of two months window and the opposite boards must conform to have their gamers launched for the higher a part of the match.It is predicted that India will likely be taking part in much more bilateral collection with extra emphasis on T20 and Test cricket with lesser variety of ODIs. There has been a relentless debate on if bilateral ODIs are quick dropping their context.
    Tax exemption: The ICC tax associated problem may even come up for dialogue and it’s already determined that India will ask the worldwide physique to deduct from its annual income of USD 490 million in case they do not get exemption from the central authorities on present tax legal guidelines. The council will likely be intimated as to what’s the federal government’s stance.
    Discussion of NCA Project: The work and associated progress of the under-construction new National Cricket Academy in Bengaluru will come up for dialogue together with hiring of personnel on the NCA in addition to BCCI headquarters in Mumbai.
    Decision on Bihar Cricket: Bihar Cricket Association is presently an administrative mess following the current controversy over warring factions naming two separate groups for Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy. There could possibly be a particular committee that will likely be fashioned to supervise truthful and clear choice in all state groups.
    Items (As per listed in agenda)1. Confirmation of the minutes of the 4th and fifth Apex Council Meetings.2 Discussion on Domestic Season 2020-213 Discussion on Tax resolution for ICC T20 Men’s Cricket World Cup.4 Discussion on the NCA challenge.5 Hiring of personnel for NCA and for BCCI headquarters at Mumbai.6 Discussion on issues associated to ICC’s 2023 – 2031 cycle.7 Update on Bihar Cricket Association8 To contemplate every other enterprise which the Chairman could contemplate essential to be included within the Agenda. PTI KHS AH AH

  • Pritam Gandhe named Vidarbha coach after earlier coach checks COVID-19 optimistic

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    Image Source : PTI File picture of Vidarbha gamers.
    The Vidarbha Cricket Association has named Pritam Gandhe because the coach of its senior workforce for the upcoming home season after earlier coach Trevor Gonsalves examined optimistic for COVID-19.
    With the 2020-21 home season starting with the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy from January 10, Vidarbha had appointed Gonsalves because it’s coach.

    “Vidarbha Cricket Association appoints former captain & former coach Pritam Gandhe as coach for the Vidarbha senior team. The appointment was necessitated after the earlier coach Trevor Gonsalves tested positive for Covid-19,” the cricket physique mentioned in a launch.

    “Gonsalves report came after one of the test being conducted by VCA for the VCA players & support staff, who will participate in the forthcoming Syed Mushta Ali T-20 Trophy. No other players have tested positive.”
    The VCA has additionally requested its selectors to pick out 4 extra gamers after the BCCI determined to permit a complete of twenty-two gamers in every workforce, the assertion mentioned.
    Vidarbha, who’ve gained back-to-back Ranji Trophy and Irani Cup titles previously, are positioned in Elite Group D and can play their league video games in Indore.
    The squad will likely be led by Ganesh Satish and the workforce will depart on January 2.

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  • IPL 2021 Auction Forces States To Prefer Mushtaq Ali Trophy Over Ranji Trophy

    India’s domestic season is yet to get underway as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to be a major hurdle towards the resumption of cricket activities. In order to start the domestic season, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) recently asked the state associations’ on the structure of the shortened season as it plans to create six bio-secure hubs across the country between December and March.

    According to earlier PTI  report, the board has proposed 67 days for the Ranji Trophy (January 11-March 18), 22 days for the Syed Mushtaq Ali Tournament (December 20 to January 10) while the Vijay Hazare Trophy, if held, can be conducted between January 11 to February 7 for a period of 28 days. However, it looks like the BCCI’s suggestion has not been accepted by some state associations, who in turn have asked for change of dates for the Syed Mushtaq Ali Tournament.With multiple media reports suggesting that the IPL 2021 auction happening at the start of next year, PTI in its latest report has reported that top domestic sides like Karnataka, Saurashtra and Punjab have officially requested the BCCI to conduct the Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 tournament from January instead of proposed December 20 date as they would be short of preparations for a big-ticket event like this. Reportedly, Karnataka is the only state that wants all the tournaments (Ranji Trophy, Mushtaq Ali Trophy and Vijay Hazare Trophy) this season.