Deodhar trophy accomodated in Indian domestic schedule of 2009-10

[TaNk]

The waning interest in one-dayers and the growing popularity of the Twenty20 version was evident at BCCI's Tour Programmes and Fixtures Committee meeting here on Wednesday, as it cancelled the Deodhar Trophy, the country's premier zonal one-day tournament, to reintroduce the T20 domestic competition in the itinerary. Ironically, the reason the Deodhar Trophy had to make way for the Mushtaq Ali T20 tournament was the early start to the Indian Premier League's Season III. A top official conceded that that the March 18 start of the IPL a month ahead of schedule as compared to Season I left the committee with the near-impossible task of fitting in too many tournaments in too few days. "The change of the IPL schedule was non-negotiable. So we had to drop a tournament. Since there were already a few one-day tournaments, we dropped the zonal event," he said. The 50-50 tournaments that will figure in the 2009-10 calendar are the Ranji one-dayers, the Challenger Trophy and the Corporate Cup. There was also a strong view among the committee members to re-introduce the T20 Mushtaq Ali Trophy a tournament that got dropped from the calendar last year because of the IPL. "With the growing interest in the shortest version and importance given to the version internationally, we thought bringing it back was a good idea," said a committee member. Another change in the domestic season involves the Duleep Trophy, the zonal four-day tournament, which has also been crunched. Unlike the long-drawn league format it's played in, the Duleep Trophy will now be played on a knock-out basis. Besides these decisions, the committee also finalised the venues for the seven-match one-day series between India and Australia, which will be played between October 25 and November 11, right after the ICC Champions Trophy in South Africa. Guwahati, Delhi, Mumbai, Mohali, Hyderabad, Nagpur and Jaipur will host matches during the series against Australia. The match-schedule will be finalised after the logistics are worked out, the BCCI announced in a statement. However, the fixtures for Sri Lanka's tour of India and the tri-series in September between Sri Lanka, India and New Zealand will be finalised in August at the BCCI working committee meeting. Sri Lanka is scheduled to tour India for three Tests and five ODIs soon after Australia's tour to India.

[saneindian]

Waning interest in ODIs? As per the FTP we will be playing some 70-80 scheduled ODis till 2012, add those innumerous unscheduled tri-series that BCCI keeps organising and we will be looking at around 110-120 odis in the next 3 and a half years. Thats 35 odis every year. I dont see the interest in odis waning unless BCCI itself starts scrapping such odis in favour of lottery tournaments like IPL and champions league.

[vvvslaxman]

That would be sad. Deodar trophy is probably the oldest List A trophy in Indian cricket.

[Tapioca]

Good move. Ranji Trophy should be discontinued next. Nobody turns up to watch it anyway.

[vvvslaxman]

http://www.cricinfo.com/deodhartrophy2008-09/engine/current/match/368323.html 2008/09 Deodar final . Jadeja !!

[The Outsider]

Good move. Ranji Trophy should be discontinued next. Nobody turns up to watch it anyway.

I agree. The slot should be cleared out for a second IPL season.

[Lord]

I agree. The slot should be cleared out for a second IPL season.

no way IPL can only tell about players who r good at T20,test cricketers can only be picked for Ranji performances

[punjabi_khota]

I agree. The slot should be cleared out for a second IPL season.

:haha::haha::haha:

[Pak_Fan]

bcci is doing a great job here, scrap all the odi cometition and play a format which you only play 4-5 matches a year at international level. but seriously it will effect the talent india have in their domestic level

[Kohum]

This is just cashing in on the 20-20 wave I guess. Heck - even Maharashtra cricket assoc, had their own version of 20-20 created and played out

[fineleg]

I agree. The slot should be cleared out for a second IPL season.

:winky:

[Chandan]

Deodhar trophy accomodated in Indian domestic schedule of 2009-10 When did that happen? Well, a bit of googling shows that it was accomodated at the threat of Shiv Sena!LINK BCCI to reconsider Deodhar Trophy's fate after Sena threats IANS, Jul 4, 2009, 07.42pm IST MUMBAI: Stung by threats from the Shiv Sena, the Indian cricket board is contemplating to accommodate the Deodhar Trophy tournament in a cramped 2009-10 schedule. Board of Control of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) secretary N. Srinivasan said Saturday the fate of the Deodhar Trophy will be decided in the next working committee meeting. The tournament didn't find a place in the 2009-10 schedule released by the BCCI's Tour Programme and Fixtures Committee Wednesday following which the Shiv Sena staged a demonstration in front of the Cricket Centre at the Wankhede Stadium against the dropping of the tournament. Srinivasan said that the tournament was never dropped. Asked why the tournament was not mentioned in the schedule announced Wednesday, Srinivasan said: "The BCCI press release is self explanatory and you can draw your own conclusion." Srinivasan's comments came after the Shiv Sena threatened that it won't allow any Indian Premier League (IPL) matches in the city if the tournament was cancelled. "BCCI has planned IPL matches in Maharashtra at the cost of Deodhar Trophy tournament. The board has insulted Marathi pride by cancelling the tournament named after Prof D.B. Deodhar," a Sena leader said. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- And what a joke of a schedule they've drawn up. Just look for yourself: Fixtures: Quarter Final: Central Zone v South Zone at Vadodara Mar 6 1st Semi-Final: East Zone v North Zone at Vadodara Mar 7 2nd Semi-Final: TBA v West Zone at Vadodara Mar 8 Final: TBA v TBA at Vadodara Mar 9 Why on earth did they need to have this token tournament? It'd have been better if it remained scrapped! I'm not quite hopeful for the squads as well. They could well have chosen anyone. Let us have a look: SOUTH ZONE: R Ashwin (capt), Abhinav Mukund, S Anirudha, Manish Pandey, Ambati Rayudu, CM Gautam, KB Arun Karthik, S Badrinath, Ganesh Satish, Pragyan Ojha, P Prashanth, S Sreesanth, A Mithun, R Vinay Kumar, Saurabh Bandekar. Coach: K Sanath Kumar. NORTH ZONE: Virat Kohli © Rahul Dewan Rajat Bhatia Sanjay Budhwar Shikhar Dhawan Paras Dogra Harbhajan Singh Ravi Inder Singh Jaskaran Singh Joginder Sharma Uday Kaul (wk) Mandeep Singh Amit Mishra Ashish Nehra Parvez Rassol CENTRAL ZONE: Suresh Raina © Piyush Chawla (vc) Ankit Sharma Robin Bist Harpreet Singh Mohammad Kaif Monish Mishra Naman Ojha (wk) Pankaj Singh Jalaj Saxena RP Singh TP Singh Tanmay Srivastava Sudeep Tyagi Shrikant Wagh E klavya Dwivedi Ashok Menaria Shadab Khan Karan Sharma TP Sudhindra Umesh Yadav WEST ZONE: Ajit Agarkar © Parthiv Patel Iqbal Abdulla Ravindra Jadeja Kedar Jadhav Sagar Jogiyani Dhawal Kulkarni Jayesh Odedra Munaf Patel Niraj Patel Chirag Pathak Yusuf Pathan Cheteshwar Pujara Ajinkya Rahane Rohit Sharma EAST ZONE Debashish Mohanty (captain), Ranadeb Bose (vice-captain) Sreevats Goswami, Dhiraj Jadhav, Paresh Patel, Manoj Tiwary, Ishank Jaggi, S ourav Tiwary, Parvez Aziz, Wriddhiman Saha, Haladhar Das, Ashok Dinda, Rakesh Mohanty, Dhiraj Goswami, Tushar Saha and Varun Aaron. So what are your views?

[graphic23]

Wow. I dont mind that they're trying to get in more domestic trophies, that is always good. But thanks to the IPL, the year-round schedule is rather cramped. And on top of that, this is terribly planned. Whats the point of having a trophy that you dont respect? Awful stuff.

[Holysmoke]

Sena are a pain in the ass. Ch**tiyas

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Deodhar fixture list threatens IPL warm-up plans The lack of breathing space between the Deodhar Trophy, the inter-zonal one-day tournament, and the IPL has left some teams worried that their Indian players may not be available for the pre-season training camp and will be denied sufficient mental and physical rest. More... Heavy fixture list threatens IPL warm-up plans Nagraj Gollapudi March 1, 2010 While IPL officials and the franchise owners are working overtime on security issues surrounding the tournament, the players and support staff are dealing with another hurdle: The lack of breathing space between the Deodhar Trophy, the inter-zonal one-day tournament, and the IPL has left some teams worried that their Indian players may not be available for the pre-season training camp and will be denied sufficient mental and physical rest. The Deodhar Trophy runs from March 6-9 and the IPL starts three days later. "It is unfortunate. We are particularly hard-hit because we are playing the first game (on March 12) unlike other teams who have at least two more days before starting their campaign," Joy Bhattacharjya, director of operations of Kolkata Knight Riders told Cricinfo. His concerns are understandable: ten of the 16 Indians in his 23-man squad will be featuring in the five-zone Deodhar Trophy, to be played in Vadodara. Before that, on March 2, the Bengal state side play the final of the Vijay Hazare Trophy against Tamil Nadu. The next day, the KKR squad is due to start its training camp in Cuttack and it will reach Mumbai on March 8, with the entire squad assembling two days later. Kolkata have been busy after a season in which they finished last; first, they replaced one World Cup-winning coach, John Buchanan, with another in Dav Whatmore. Locals like batsman Manoj Tiwary were bought during the trading window as Whatmore put the new structure in place. But Whatmore may not have enough time to work with his players. "Most of the other teams have set combinations with stable line-ups. People like us who haven't been successful have to work hard," Bhattacharjya said. "Also when and where will our coach get to have a look at first-timers like Manoj Tiwari and Harshad Khadiwale? Our line-up has four or five first XI changes. Even Cheteshwar Pujara, a consistent performer on the domestic circuit, hasn't played a lot for Kolkata, so he will need to be present at the training camps to understand the team planning. But that won't be happening." The BCCI cannot be blamed for the scheduling clash. In fact, the Deodhar Trophy, the annual zonal one-day tournament, originally played on a league basis, was converted into a knockout tournament this year exclusively to make sure the IPL schedule (March 12-April 25) would not be disrupted. The IPL itself had to be advanced by a month in order to avoid any clash with the ICC World Twenty20, to be played in May this year in the Caribbean. All this had a domino effect on the Indian domestic schedule and the BCCI had no option but to come up with a crammed calendar, despite concerns from coaches and players, whose major concern was exhaustion and absence of any time for recovery. Some other teams, though, see the positives in the tournament schedule. Darren Lehmann, team director of Deccan Chargers, said he would be happy for his players to participate in the domestic event. "We are more than happy if our players take part in any domestic event. That will not impact our plans in any way," Lehmann said. But Deccan had worked hard to work out winning strategies that allowed them to bounce back from being the eighth-ranked team after the first IPL to the title last year. Delhi's stance is similar. Amrit Mathur, Delhi's chief operating officer, felt that playing the Deodhar Trophy can be seen as match practice though he acknowledged that some could use a rest. "It actually goes player by player," Mathur said. "For example, Rajat Bhatia is in the Deodhar squad and that is good as he is playing in a competitive match whereas Dinesh Karthik, who has just finished playing the ODI series against South Africa, after playing in the better half of the domestic season, might've have done with some rest." Some like Chennai are more blunt and say teams have to accept the fact that the international calendar is crammed already and the domestic calendar gets extended as a result. "You maintain your form by playing matches. More than preparatory camps if they are playing the right form of cricket. If they were playing four or five-day games it might have affected the team's plans," a Chennai source said.

[achilles]

Good news for domestic players :two_thumbs_up:

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Deodhar Trophy : Confident South takes on Central More... Confident South takes on Central A. Joseph Antony Vadodara: The Moti Baugh cricket ground should be an environmentalist's delight. The arena's resplendent greenery only complements the dense foliage from trees all around it, so akin to a forest. Set on a 707-acre spread that houses the palace of the Gaekwads, erstwhile rulers of the princely State of Baroda, it also enfolds a golf course, a museum and a mausoleum, complete with ornate tombs and doors. This venue should also serve as a reminder that similar royal patronage in the game's nascent stages has seen it emerge as a multi-million dollar enterprise in recent times. In much of the surroundings, the 10-strip square must be just about the only sprinkling of brown. It will however be the very platform on which many careers could be launched when the Deodhar Trophy quarterfinal limited-over match between South and Central zones gets underway on Saturday. South sounded pretty upbeat on the eve of the contest. “Most of our boys are from Tamil Nadu, fresh from victory in the Vijay Hazare Trophy and from Karnataka, which made it to the semifinals,” said manager R. Sudhakar Rao. “They are therefore in very good touch,” added the former Karnataka and international batsman. “This event provides a good opportunity for players to perform close to the Indian Premier League (IPL) and the World Cup,” said Central Zone captain Suresh Raina. “A live telecast will give them better exposure too,” he felt. Leading a zonal team for the first time, he said his squad was a blend of bowling and batting strength and raring to go in conditions quite conducive to cricket. If the competition is poorer for the absence of Dinesh Karthik, Robin Uthappa or Murali Vijay, the fireworks of Ambati Rayudu and Abhinav Mukund should make up for it. Bright sunshine and warm weather hold out promise of clear blue skies and a 9 a.m. start when the action unfolds on Saturday. The teams: Central Zone: Suresh Raina (Capt.), Piyush Chawla (vice-captain), Jalaj Saxena, Naman Ojha, Mohnish Mishra, Harpreet Singh, M. Kaif, T.P. Singh, Ankit Sharma, Tanmay Shrivastava, R.P. Singh, Sudeep Tyagi, Robin Bisht, S. Wagh, Pankaj Singh. Coach: Gyanendra Pandey. Manager: Mukesh Sahani. South Zone: R. Ashwin (Capt.), S. Badrinath, S. Sreesanth, Abhinav Mukund, S Anirudha, Manish Pandey, Ambati Rayudu, C.M. Gautam, K.B. Arun Karthik, Ganesh Satish, Pragyan Ojha, P. Prashanth, A. Mithun, R. Vinay Kumar, Saurabh Bandekar. Coach: K. Sanath Kumar. Manager: R. Sudhakar Rao .

[Chandan]

Today we have the first match of this cramped up unwanted trophy, between South Zone and Central Zone. South zone is batting first and is in trouble at 107/5 in the 30th over. Mukund and Ashwin are at the crease.

[Chandan]

161/6 now in the 40th over. Mukund hit a resposible half ton and Ashwin is batting obn 51 but surpringly the other batting stars of South failed completely. Sathish went for a duck, Badri for 14 and Pandey for just 8. Vijay is not even in the squad. Now Vinay Kumar is at the crease with Ashwin with other 3 bowlers to follow. Can CZ win this match? PS: South are dismissed in their 47th over for just 217 runs. RP Singh captured 3 wickets of Mukund and tailenders. No one is interested in this match?

[msb1991]

I do hope that the failure of Sreesanth and RP Singh, at domestic level, to put up a good performance shows that they are both not at ODI standard, atm. Monish Mishra with some runs, he seems to get some runs whenever I check and he was prolific in the ICL, could be quite a find in the IPL.