World Cup schedule more likely to be modified: Jay Shah | Cricket Information – Occasions of India

NEW DELHI: Amid hypothesis that India-Pakistan match could possibly be rescheduled, BCCI secretary Jay Shah mentioned that one might see a number of adjustments within the upcoming ODI World Cup in India in Oct-Nov. Shah insisted that there have been requests from a number of Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) member nations to vary the schedule citing very small gaps between a number of video games.

“A number of members have requested that they’ve quick gaps between two matches whereas they’ve a protracted hole of six days earlier than different video games. We are attempting to simply change the date and time of matches whereas retaining the venues. Issues can be sorted in a number of days. This stuff occur in World Cups,” Shah mentioned right here on Thursday. Shah didn’t need to title the member nations and asserted that it is going to be completed in coordination with the ICC.
There have been reviews that there could possibly be safety points in Ahmedabad on Oct 15, the day fastened for India-Pakistan match. Shah denied the safety threats and reiterated that if the scheduled is modified it is going to be solely due to the requests from member nations.

Hygiene, free consuming water high precedence in stadiums
The BCCI has briefed the host state associations that hygiene for crowd needs to be high precedence through the World Cup. We have now introduced in an company and our focus is bogs and housekeeping. “We have now not specified any quantity to be granted to state associations for stadium upgradation. We have now simply instructed them to concentrate on stadium hygiene. We have now additionally tied up with Coca Cola to supply complimentary consuming water at stadiums,” Shah mentioned. “We can even request ticket holders to take metro and native trains to stadium to keep away from site visitors chaos on match days,” he added.
Bumrah match, no participant will play instantly in WC
Shah confirmed that Jasprit Bumrah has fully recovered from his again damage and is more likely to journey to Eire for a T20I sequence subsequent month. The BCCI secretary additionally claimed that there can be consistency in picks. Presently Bumrah, KL Rahul, Shreyas Iyer, Rishabh Pant and Prasidh Krishna are nursing accidents on the NCA. “There isn’t a time-frame for these gamers to declare themselves match. However we could have consistency in choice after the Eire tour. No participant can be instantly included within the World Cup squad with out enjoying matches earlier than that,” Shah mentioned.
India ‘A’ programme again
Shah introduced the restoration of the ‘A’ programme after the World Cup. He mentioned that India ‘A’ will play matches in South Africa earlier than the Check crew goes there later within the 12 months and England ‘A’ will go to India forward of England’s tour of India early subsequent 12 months. “We have now to area a number of India groups which throughout the globe in order that different boards can survive financially. However we’ve got labored a time for these two ‘A’ sequence,” Shah mentioned.
BCCI to talk to Harmanpreet
BCCI president Roger Binny and NCA head VVS Laxman will discuss to India ladies’s captain Harmanpreet Kaur after she was suspended for 2 matches by ICC for her poor behaviour in opposition to the umpires within the latest tour of Bangladesh. “We could have our president and Laxman chatting with her about her outburst. We’re not going to problem her suspension. Anyway, the time interval to attraction the suspension has handed,” Shah mentioned.