BCCI bypasses Sourav Ganguly & Co before finalizing the domestic calendar, says Source

Did the Cricket Control Board of India (BCCI) keep its Technical Committee (TC), headed by Sourav Ganguly, out of the loop when finalizing the domestic calendar for the 2018-19 season?

TC, the answer is "yes".

It is exactly one week earlier (July 17) that BCCI announced the biggest national season, starting with the August 17 Duleep Trophy matches. The revised schedule of the Ranji Trophy and the Plate group.

The Elite group will have three subgroups called A, B and C. Subgroups A and B will each have nine teams while subgroup C will have ten teams. The Plate group will include a D subgroup that will have nine new participants, including six from the north-east – Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Sikkim – while Bihar, Puducherry and Uttarakhand will join to form this group. new group. 19659002] According to established BCCI standards, it is up to the technical committee to finalize the national calendar of the country. But a TC insider told the DNA that neither Ganguly nor any other member had been consulted before increasing the number of teams to 37 or making public the following day. more than 2,000 matches.

and Elite B Group, two teams from the Elite C Group and one Group D team will advance to the quarterfinals. It also states that the best qualified team for the quarter-finals of the Plate Group will be promoted to Elite A & B next season.

Insiders say that "this whole model is not based on TC's suggestions to the Committee of Executive Directors (COA)".

DNA learned that it was not the model that TC had suggested for the first time at COA, as members were of the opinion that Ranji were played in Elite and in Plate. divisions, the choosers were not used to select the players of this last category.

The committee led by Ganguly was therefore of the opinion that the integration of the Northeast, Bihar and Uttarakhand teams should be done gradually with their teams. age group tournaments and continue as in the case of Chhattisgarh before being included in the fold of Ranji during the 2016-17 season

The TC recommendations should be sent to the. ACO and then ratified by General BCCI Corps. [19659002] The BCCI, on the other hand, has only one reason to differ from TC and that is a Supreme Court judgment dated July 18, 2016, which l obliged to give equal representation to all states, as well as to affiliated members. the reason why COA had instead asked Saba Karim, general manager of operations and head of domestic cricket, and CEO Rahul Johri to design the domestic calendar bypbading Ganguly & Co.