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India's home season will fetch underway from January 1, BCCI president Sourav Ganguly said on Saturday. He also said the BCCI has "justify plans" for junior cricket and females's tournaments.The BCCI's Apex Council met on Saturday to focus on the home calendar, which had been thrown in disarray by the surging Covid-19 cases in India."We've had extensive discussions on home cricket and we now absorb tentatively determined to begin the competitions from January 1, 2021," Ganguly quick PTI from Dubai.When asked if it'd be a curtailed season or no longer, the worn Indian captain said the board could perchance well no longer be ready to accommodate all home tournaments, given the topic with the pandemic."We are going to be in a position to no doubt absorb the rotund-fledged Ranji Trophy. [But]...

BCCI president Sourav Ganguly on a affirm over with to the Sharjah cricket stadium sooner than IPL 2020 Sharjah CricketBCCI president Sourav Ganguly has acknowledged that the Indian board will dwell all the pieces it will to be obvious that the sequence against England between January and March subsequent 365 days is held in India and the home competitions kick off at some stage despite the "fluid" Covid-19 arena.The "precedence is to form this (sequence against England) occur in India. We are able to strive to form this occur on Indian grounds. The serve in UAE is they've three stadiums (Abu Dhabi, Sharjah and Dubai)," he acknowledged in a media interaction addressing speculation that the UAE could well host the sequence given the Covid-19 arena in India, which has persevered to aggravat...

12: 04 PM ISTESPNcricinfo workersBCCI president Sourav Ganguly expects the IPL's TV viewership to hit all-time highs in 2020, and has indicated that spectators will be allowed to reach abet to the stadiums later within the tournament within the UAE."Crowds will look it on tv... They [broadcasters] are in point of fact anticipating the very supreme rating of IPL this season, because they imagine if [fans] don't turn up within the bottom, they are going to be in point of fact looking out at on their tv sets," PTI quoted Ganguly as announcing. His feedback came while delivering a web-based lecture for the Symbiosis Golden Jubilee Lecture Series.The IPL is build of living to delivery on September 19 and scurry till November 10, with three venues within the combine: Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Sharjah...

11: 04 AM ISTESPNcricinfo workersSourav Ganguly and Ricky Ponting possess underlined varied qualities that made MS Dhoni the participant he change into. Ganguly, Dhoni's first India captain, felt promoting him to No. 3 early in his profession used to be vindication of his batting capability. Ponting, in the meantime, lauded Dhoni's capability to dwell soundless and no longer let emotions rule his on-self-discipline option-making as a frontrunner.Playing easiest his fifth ODI and batting at No. 3 for the first time, Dhoni made 148 in opposition to Pakistan in Visakhapatnam in April 2005, announcing his arrival in international cricket. Later that yr in Jaipur, Dhoni smashed an unbeaten 145-ball 183 in a whisk of 299 in opposition to Sri Lanka, all another time from No. 3. It used to be on t...