Tuesday, January 09, 2007

On what grounds???

Post the debacle in South Africa, the BCCI is in a tear to show that it is doing ( or is willing to do) everything the "remedy" the malaise of "dead" Indian wickets and so

BCCI to conduct workshop for curators

The Cricket Board will conduct a workshop for curators of all the state associations and units affiliated to it in March this year.
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"The last workshop was conducted three years ago and that is the reason it has been decided to have one more workshop for the curators," Shetty added.

Board assures 'best possible pitches' for domestic cricket

Niranjan Shah, secretary of the Board of Control for Cricket in India, revealed that plans were in place to play key matches on neutral venues that would be picked from the best of the strips available in the country. "We will be identifying the best few wickets in the country and be using these for important matches like Duleep Trophy, Irani Cup, Deodhar Trophy and semi-finals and finals of the Ranji Trophy, going away from the rotation system," said Shah. "These matches will be played on neutral grounds, which have the best wickets. This will be from next season onwards because the constitution has to be amended to make this possible."

Watch this space for further (non) developments!!!

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