BCCI shared their views over India’s upcoming tour to Sri Lanka

 


India’s limited-overs series against Sri Lanka is necessary to take place so that Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) can make up for the loss of revenue that caused by last year’s cancelled tour, the Indian cricket board treasurer Arun Dhumal has recently revealed.

Last year, India’s tour of Sri Lanka in June was cancelled owing to the rapid rise of Covid-19 pandemic, which left the entire Future Tours Programme (FTP) of the top cricketing countries out of order as well. On the other hand, this year, India’s tour to Sri Lanka is coinciding with the national team’s Test tour of England, where they will play the inaugural World Test Championship final against New Zealand and then a five-match Test series against England as well.

“We had to Miss Sri Lanka tour last year also. So, we need to work out on that. Since our team that is going to England is primarily for Tests, we could have made up (sic) a team for these white-ball matches. So, that is why we thought we should do our bit to make sure Sri Lankan board and we can play white-ball cricket in time,” Arun Dhumal was quoted as saying.

“See, as you know the cricket world is under tremendous pressure for the last one-and-a-half year given this Covid pandemic. A lot of FTP has been cancelled (sic), which has put a lot of strain on these associations all over the world. Until and unless you do these tours, we can’t make up, and it would be very difficult for all these boards to come out of their financial struggle that they are going through,” he further added.

Notably, the selection committee is expected to pick the squad for the limited-overs series in Sri Lanka soon after the England Test squad assembles in Mumbai as well.

 

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