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| Reforms Need to be Ushered in the Ranji Trophies |
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| Pitched By Cricket360 Smart Guy | |||||||
| Friday, 27 February 2009 | |||||||
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Vitality of an organization or an entity, or a person is guided by its ability to keep on changing rediscovering itself, be on forgetting curves instead of being on the learning curves. What it means is that it should forget what has happened in the past and begun a fresh. The time has probably come for Ranji trophy to do the same. View has started gathering around that there is a need to revisit the conditions that operate the Ranji one-day tournament, so that the interest of the customers continues to remain in the game.
There is an urgent need to usher in reforms in the Ranji trophy cricket matches so that the game becomes interesting. One of the areas that require attention is the nature of pitches that are being used for Ranji one-day tournament. BCCI should have learnt lessons from whatever happened at Rajkot during the Ranji one-dayers and should have become wary of small centres especially when the knockout rounds will be played. A case in point is Agartala that has been selected as one of the venues to host knockout rounds of Ranji Trophy. It is difficult to find even decent hotels to accommodate 10 teams. Few years ago it was reported that the hotel where the team was staying was unhygienic, but BCCI does not seem to have undertaken a fact-finding study about it and to suggest some ameliorative measures. After all, it is flush with funds, and if it wants cricket to expand, then it is also BCCI's responsibility to see to it that the centres where it organizes matches ought to have some kind of standards. The zoning system, which guides Ranji trophy matches, has a deficiency. Each zone has at least two weak teams and once they are beaten with bonus points it affects the table to a large extent. In such a scenario the next round matches get affected as a weak team may be pitted against a strong team, and the players from the strong team may not get the opportunity to show case their talent and be in contention for being selected in the national side. May be, with IPL becoming more prominent and need for including exciting players in the tournament becomes a pressing concern, reforms would be initiated in Ranji Trophy matches as well.
3.25 Copyright (C) 2007 Alain Georgette / Copyright (C) 2006 Frantisek Hliva. All rights reserved."Newer news items:
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