BCCI President Sourav Ganguly has confident state devices that the Board “will do the whole lot to restart the home season as soon as the COVID-19 state of affairs is below keep an eye on” after some marquee tournaments, together with the Ranji Trophy, have been postponed because of a resurgence of instances around the nation.
The BCCI on Tuesday needed to placed on grasp the Ranji Trophy, which was once set to start out later this month, and a couple of different tournaments because of a surge in COVID 19 instances within the nation.
“As you’re conscious, we needed to placed on grasp the these days on-going home season because of the worsening COVID-19 state of affairs,” Ganguly mentioned in a letter to state associations.
The Ranji Trophy and Col C Okay Nayudu Trophy have been scheduled to start out this month whilst the Senior Girls’s T20 League was once scheduled to start in February.
“The COVID instances are all of a sudden expanding and there have been more than one certain instances in lots of groups. It posed an drawing close danger to the well being and protection of avid gamers, officers and all others associated with the working of the tournaments,” Ganguly wrote within the mail to Presidents and Secretaries of the entire devices.
PTI is in ownership of the mail written through Ganguly.
Ganguly wired that the Board would do the whole lot to restart the home season.
“The BCCI wish to reassure that it’s going to do the whole lot to restart the home season as soon as the COVID state of affairs is below keep an eye on.
“We’re dedicated to retaining the rest tournaments for this season. The Board will in a while come again to you with a revised plan,” mentioned Ganguly.
“I thanks to your give a boost to and working out. Please take care of your self and keep protected and wholesome,” the previous left-handed batter signed off.
Seven participants of the Bengal squad and India all-rounder Shivam Dube together with Mumbai workforce’s video analyst had examined certain for COVID-19 within the run as much as the Ranji Trophy, which was once scheduled to begin around the nation on January 13.
The premier home match didn’t occur within the 2020-2021 season because of the pandemic.
The COVID-19 state of affairs is grim throughout the entire main towns with Delhi and Mumbai recording hundreds of recent instances, a number of them being suffering from new Omicron variant.