BCCI approves India’s participation in Asian Games
India’s males’s and girls’s cricket groups are set to compete within the Asian Games for the primary time, with the BCCI’s apex council approving their participation within the upcoming Games in Hangzhou in September-October. Cricket has featured twice within the Asian Games earlier than – in 2010 and 2014 – however India did not participate both time.
As within the 2010 and 2014 editions, T20 would be the format of the cricket occasion in Hangzhou.
“We are going to participate in the Asian Games,” BCCI secretary Jay Shah confirmed on Friday. “The Apex Council has approved the participation of our men’s and women’s teams.”
With the Men’s ODI World Cup, which is scheduled to start on October 5, two days earlier than the tip of the Asian Games cricket competitors, the BCCI is predicted to ship a second-string males’s staff to the Games, and a full-strength ladies’s staff.
Bangladesh (2010) and Sri Lanka (2014) gained the lads’s gold medals within the earlier editions of the Games, whereas Pakistan gained the ladies’s gold each occasions.
BCCI mulls coverage to forestall early retirements
Among the opposite issues mentioned by the apex committee was the problem of gamers retiring from worldwide and home cricket with the intention to take part in abroad leagues. The most up-to-date case of that is Ambati Rayudu, who retired after the final of IPL 2023, following which he signed up with Texas Super Kings for the upcoming inaugural version of Major League Cricket.
As issues stand, Indian cricketers can solely function in abroad leagues if they’re not concerned in worldwide cricket or in BCCI-run tournaments together with the IPL. While solely a handful of Indian gamers have up to now gone on to play in abroad leagues after their retirements, the mushrooming of leagues all over the world has raised the priority that gamers might retire early to play in these new tournaments.
“We’ll come out with a policy to prevent the trend of pre-determined retirement,” Shah mentioned. “The office-bearers will make a policy and send it back for approval.”