BCCI to fund overseas and domestic tours for visually impaired cricketers
In addition, the BCCI has also committed to providing accommodation for home and visiting sides during bilateral series hosted in India.
In addition, the BCCI has also committed to providing accommodation for home and visiting sides during bilateral series hosted in India.
The selection committee, headed by Ajit Agarkar, has proposed changes to the central contract structure. The committee has recommended scrapping the A+ category (Rs 7 crore) and leaving only three categories: A, B, and C. Further clarity on the monetary changes and whether the BCCI will approve this new model is expected at the next apex council meeting.
Whether a meeting between the board president and the Indian captain was held was not common knowledge but, if you look back, what happened did not really elevate cricket, stopping far short of widening even its commercial appeal.
This was conveyed to a section of the media by Ganguly himself on Saturday evening. He also confirmed that he will be filing his nomination on October 18.
The European owners of the Ahmedabad franchise also lend a touch to the IPL that is suitably exotic for now but the door having been opened to worldwide cricket entrepreneurship in India, well might others be ringing the calling bell from now on.
This is not the first sporting tournament to be impacted as several other high profile tournaments including the Tokyo Olympics stand postponed.
Ganguly also confirmed that their first priority would be to host the tournament in India before looking out for venues in other countries.
The 13th edition of the Indian Premier League was scheduled to commence on 29 March but was postponed indefinitely owing to the pandemic.
Chennai and Bangalore seem to be the likely venues to organise the tournament.
Ganguly however said that he was elated to watch the Indian team under MS Dhoni, which consisted of a number of players he played with, lift the 2011 World Cup.
