Odisha-Jharkhand Ranji game rescheduled

The BCCI has said the Ranji Trophy match between Odisha and Jharkhand scheduled to begin from December 7 in Natham, near Dindigul, will be rescheduled after the Tamil Nadu Cricket Association communicated its inability to host the game, owing to the week-long mourning period in the state following the death of chief minister J Jayalalithaa on Monday.

The board’s senior tournament committee also revoked the decision to reschedule the two games – the Group A fixture between Bengal, and Gujarat and the Group C game featuring Hyderabad and Tripura – which were abandoned in Delhi due to smog and pollution. All the four teams will now be awarded one point each. BCCI secretary Ajay Shirke, however, didn’t clarify if the fixtures for the knockout games, which were postponed after the rescheduling, would be advanced.

The decision to shift the Odisha-Jharkhand game out of Natham came after TNCA secretary Kasi Viswanathan apprised the BCCI of the situation in Tamil Nadu after Jayalalithaa’s death late on Monday night. Shirke said the game would be held at a different venue after a few days.

“There will be a gap of a couple of days because the alternate venue has to prepare wickets,” he told reporters in Mumbai after meeting a senior tournament committee meeting. “We are not even sure whether we will be able to move the boys out in the given time because the locals [in Dindigul] have advised us to keep them indoors today.”

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