J&K Cricket Association has sought early season matches in Kashmir.
During the BCCI conclave for captains and the coaches of thedomestic teams held in Mumbai on Friday, JKCA which was represented by thecoach and captain of the teams put their suggestions.
JKCA requested BCCI to allot early season domestic matchesin Kashmir prior to the start of the winter months.
Normally BCCI used to keep matches in Kashmir duringmid-winter season and teams both, hosts J&K and visitors were finding ithard to cope with the weather.
“For us the priority is to get early season matches inKashmir so that we can take full benefit our home conditions. While makingcalendar for the domestic season, BCCI has not been taking into considerationweather of Kashmir and matches were mostly held during harsh mid winterseason,” said JKCA official.
“This time we asked BCCI to take into consideration thisparticular issue so that J&K cricket would get benefited. The domesticseason starts in September October and if we get our matches to host at thattime it would be great for us. Otherwise BCCI used to award us matches to hostin January or February which was making things difficult for us,” he said.
He said that JKCA also raised issue of timing of matches.
In the meet captains and coaches from all over countryparticipated and they stressed on the introduction of Decision Review system inRanji Trophy and doing away with the concept of coin toss.
DRS has been so far restricted to international cricket butthe call to introduce it in domestic structure has grown following poorumpiring decisions in the last Ranji Trophy season, which saw a significantrise in the number of matches with the addition of new teams.
During the conclave, the captains and coaches called for theintroduction of DRS with the available technology for televised (television anddigital broadcast) Ranji Trophy games.
It was also discussed if knockout games of Ranji Trophyshould be on home-and-away basis or at neutral venues.
To improve the standard of the games, suggestions were maderegarding the “introduction of evaluation reports by Match Referees aboutumpires” and “evaluation of Match referees by the umpires.”
The issues related to the “quality of balls” used throughoutthe season and “slow over rates” were also discussed and suggestions weresought during the conclave. For suggestions to become a reality, the approvalof the BCCI technical committee and then the ratification by the General Bodyis required.
As of now there is neither the technical committee nor theGeneral body since an ad-hoc body is running the affairs of the cricket body.(With Inputs from PTI)