2020-21 India's domestic cricket season

-
As there were COVID-19 cases in India, getting increased day by day, the resumption of cricket is struck. To bring the sports industry, especially cricketing fraternity, back to normal, each and every Board member and its associative members, are taking necessary steps and implement few changes. But, now a major change has been announced in its domestic cricket season.

 Vijay Hazare ODI Tournament, along with Deodhar Trophy and Duleep Trophy were set to be axed in this compressed schedule of 2020-21. As per the schedule drawn by, Rahul Dravid, the Head of National Cricket Academy ( NCA ) and the interim IPL CEO, Hemang Amin, the schedule will kickoff with Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy at November 19, with concluding on December 7th. Hence, immediately after IPL, these matched will commence. After the end of Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy, on December 13th, Ranji Trophy will begin and it gets its final result on 10th of March.

 Also, the number of matches were reduced with respect to the previous season, due to the intervention of Corona Virus Pandemic. Ranji Trophy consists of 136 matches, 33 less than previous season, whereas Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy consists of 109 matches, 40 less than the previous time. Other than that, with responding to the travel guidelines, the number of cities, hosting games has been reduced with matches in each group being played at four grounds in two cities. 

 For Ranji Trophy, it consists of Groups, A, B, C, D and E. Eight teams will be featuring in the groups A, B and C, while the group D consists of six, seven or eight teams in it. The top two teams in A, B and C will directly qualify for the knockouts. Six Northeastern Teams have been placed in the Group E. With commencing it, the bottom placed team in the Group D, will be moving to Group E, while the top placed team from Group E will be promoted to Group D.

 Other than that, a new additional round has been added, where winner of Group D will face the first placed team of Group E, in the pre quarterfinal, where the winner of the of the match will directly qualify for the quarterfinal match.

 For Syed Mustaq Ali Trophy, there are 38 teams split up into six teams, with each group's matches were held in two grounds of one single city. 

 While, when we talk about women's domestic cricket schedule, as the tour of England has been cancelled with due to COVID 19 Pandemic, a full fledged schedule has been proposed. The ODI League will be played during ( March 17th - April 12, 2021 ), T20 League ( November 1 - 20), U-23 One-Day league (November 30-December 23), U-23 T20 league (January 27 to February 15), U-19 One-Day League (December 29- January 21) and U-19 T20 Trophy (Feb 21 to March 11).

 Also, it is based on the situation around right now. Hence, for all the young aspiring cricketers, be healthy and stay strong. Take, safety measures and make much care of your health. For the betterment of future, stay home stay safe !

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

A Decade and Future

-
A decade 2010 - 2019 has been ended just 5 days ago. This decade marked much more important changes, important developments, and also much drawbacks.  Particularly in India's point of view, many difference had happened.  Governments have changed, people's mindset have changed and even some prominence were died.  At 2010, during the start of the decade, India's Prime Minister was Dr.Manmohan Singh, and the National Congress Party was the ruling government then. In Tamil Nadu,Kalaignar M.Karunanidhi was the Chief Minister.Button cell phones were in sale during those times and selfies weren't famous.  Twitter, Facebook, Orkut, Google, Youtube were the most used social media platforms. No Web Series and OTT platforms were there.  People watched TV Serials and TV was the main dominant source of information and entertainment.  Kids used to play outside and there weren't and PUBG, Freefire etc... India had only one Cricket WorldCup in their hands and IPL was just been
Read more

Happy Birthday Jonathan Trott

-
Image
Happy 39th Birthday to Jonathan Trott. He was born on Cape Town, South Africa. He played his U15 and U19 matches for South Africa, but represented England national cricket team in 2007. He made his T20I debut in 2007, ODI and test debuts in 2009. His career is so short span but in this small period he made some impeccable performances which the England cricket would never forget. He has been named as ICC Cricketer of the Year Award and ECB Cricketer of the Year Award in the year 2011. He was also awarded Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 2011. While seeing his technique, he is something different from other English Batsmen, who both technically and mentally. He was a proper top order batsman, who instead of hitting hard and smashing for huge sixes, he plays calm and fine, with much elegance for four. He doesn't seem to hit the ball so hard. Sometimes, he even pushes the ball for a boundary. A strong batsman in Leg Side, and played orthodox cricket in his entire career. He is al
Read more

Coffee King and Debt

-
Introduction                   Yesterday night, VG Siddhartha, owner of Cafe Coffee Day, had died.  He was found dead in the Hoige Bazaar beach in Mangalore.  He had emerged as one of the top entrepreneurs' in the world and also in 45th position in the table of most richest persons in the world.  Also, he was the first entrepreneur in Karnataka to set up a coffee business.  Other than coffee business,  he has also started some other business like banana export, Daffco furniture, Global Technology Ventures, SICAL Logistics.  He is also the son in law of S.M.Krishna, the former Chief Minister of Karnataka. Death            Even tough he had been a successful entrepreneur, having a turn over around 2000 crores, he had more debt with high interest rate and even after trying to open and cop up on other businesses,  the debt amount is still hasn't been cleared.This uncleared debt, and also in 2017, his house and office was raid by Income Tax officers, which led to a great con
Read more