“The BCCI is a bit worried that many Indian players will retire early to play in the various lucrative T20 leagues abroad, especially as many teams in these leagues are owned by IPL franchises. Hence, there’s a thought being given to perhaps introduce a cooling- off period. However, there are many factors that have to be considered before the present policy of allowing retired players to play in overseas T20 leagues can be altered. Let’s see what call the BCCI takes ultimately,” a supply within the Board informed TOI.
Ambati Rayudu will play for Texas Super Kings (TSK) franchise in Major League Cricket in the USA, whilst Robin Uthappa and Yusuf Pathan performed for Dubai Capitals in ILT20 in UAE.
BCCI to ship groups for Asian Games for the primary time
For the primary time ever of their wearing historical past, India will take part within the cricket festival of the Asian Games. “The BCCI will ship a males’s and ladies’s workforce for the Asian Games in Hangzhou, China, in September-October. Hopefully, we will win a gold medal in each the kinds,” a senior official of the BCCI told TOI on Friday, after a meeting of the Apex Council here.
The BCCI has taken the decision to participate in cricket at the Asiad after being directed to do so by the government of India. As per item No 4 of the agenda (TOI has a copy) circulated amongst the Apex Council members, “the federal government of India has approached the BCCI with a course to ship each the boys’s and ladies’s cricket groups to constitute India within the upcoming Asian Games , which will probably be held in China.
“The cricket competition of the 19th Asian Games Hangzhou 2022 will be held from September 19 to October 8 at Zhejiang University of Technology Pingfeld Cricket Field. The men’s competition will be played from September 28 to October 8, while the women’s event will be held from September 19-28,” mentions the be aware.
With the contest coinciding with India website hosting the boys’s ICC ODI World Cup from October 5-November 19, the BCCI will box a second-string Indian workforce within the males’s festival. Former India batting nice and National Cricket Academy chairman VVS Laxman might be the pinnacle trainer of the India males’s workforce for Asiad.
Cricket has been performed best 3 times within the Asian Games history-when it used to be performed in Incheon in 2014, India had been absent.
Concern expressed on Impact Player regulations in Mushtaq Ali
TOI has discovered that a couple of participants all the way through the Apex Council assembly expressed worry about the use of the Impact Player rule within the upcoming Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 Trophy, as it isn’t getting used on the global degree. After some deliberation, it used to be made up our minds that the IPL-version of the Impact Player Rule can be used within the SMAT, which might start from October 16, on an “experimental basis.”
The Impact Player used to be offered in SMAT final season however it needed to be introduced earlier than the tip of the 14th over and needed to be named earlier than the toss.
However, like IPL, the groups will probably be allowed to call 4 substitutes but even so the taking part in 11 earlier than the toss. Out of the 4 substitutes, just one can be utilized as an Impact Player.