Mumbai: The BCCI president Sourav Ganguly has restated about India men’s team affirmation to tour Australia in December this year, while adding the women’s team’s tournament ‘under discussion’. However, he remained non-committal about the fate of the domestic season and women’s cricket due to the COVID-19 outbreak.
“The BCCI and the Indian cricket team will continue to fulfill its FTP commitments,” Ganguly wrote in the letter on Thursday (August 20) to state associations accessed by Sportstar. “The senior Indian men’s team will travel to Australia for its series starting in December this year and will come back to the country for a series against England starting from February next year.”
“This will be followed by IPL 2021 in April. The tours of the senior Indian women’s teams are also under discussion and more details will be shared shortly.” The BCCI has drawn a provisional schedule for the domestic season which was fixed to start from November 19 to March 10. Though, Ganguly hasn’t mentioned this in the letter.
He stated, “In the domestic cricket context, we are currently in the offseason and the BCCI is making all efforts to ensure that domestic cricket resumes as and when the conditions permit. The health and safety of players and all other involved in domestic cricket is of utmost importance to BCCI and we are constantly monitoring all aspects.”
“All Members will be duly informed about the future course of action and suggestions will be taken before we resume domestic cricket. We are hopeful that the Covid-19 situation will improve over the next few months and we will be able to start domestic cricket in a safe and healthy environment.”
Despite, former India captain mentioning the current times as off-season, most domestic teams have started training hard for the domestic season, which generally begins in August. The Duleep Trophy, which is set to be expelled this season, commenced on August 17 last year.
