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The Board of Management for Cricket in India (BCCI) Secretary Jay Shah stated that India turned down the request from Bangladesh Cricket Board to host the Girls’s T20 World Cup 2024 in October. The political unrest has resulted in query marks over whether or not the nation will be capable to host the World Cup this 12 months. Earlier, the Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) stated that they are going to be monitoring the scenario in Bangladesh earlier than deciding whether or not the match shall be shifted. In a current interview, Jay Shah stated that India shall be internet hosting the 2025 Girls’s ODI World Cup and BCCI doesn’t wish to give “any sign” that the nation needs to host consecutive World Cups.
“Subsequent 12 months, we’ll host the 50-overs girls’s World Cup. We don’t wish to give any sign that we wish to host consecutive World Cups,” Jay Shah instructed Occasions Of India.
Jay Shah additionally stated that the BCCI just isn’t in favour of internet hosting pink-ball Checks. The final pink-ball Take a look at in India came about again in 2022 in opposition to Sri Lanka in Bengaluru. Over the last two sequence in opposition to Australia and England, India didn’t play a pink-ball sequence at residence.
“You purchase a ticket for a five-day match, however the sport ends in 2-3 days… There isn’t any refund. I’m barely emotional about this,” Jay Shah defined.
In the meantime. former South Africa tempo nice Morne Morkel has been roped in because the Indian cricket group’s new bowling coach.
It’s understood that the 39-year-old, who replaces Paras Mhambrey, will take over because the bowling coach from the Bangladesh sequence that begins with the opening Take a look at in Chennai from September 19. He has been appointed until the top of the 2027 ODI World Cup in South Africa.
“Sure, Morne Morkel has been appointed bowling coach of the senior India males’s group,” Shah instructed PTI.
The opposite members of Gambhir’s help employees are assistant coach Abhishek Nayar, and fielding coach Ryan Ten Doeschate.
Morkel was additionally Gambhir’s most well-liked alternative, having labored with him at Lucknow Tremendous Giants in the course of the Indian’s two IPL seasons as mentor of the franchise.
(With PTI inputs)
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