The domestic cricket in India are all set to return with the Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 championship, from January 20-31. And the BCCI has announced venues for the tournament. While the teams have been divided into six Groups (five Elite Groups and one Plate Group), the newly-made Sardar Patel stadium in Ahmedabad will host the knock-out matches as well.
However, according to the letter shared by the BCCI secretary Jay Shah to all the secretaries of the state associations, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Indore, Chennai and Vadodara have been chosen as the venues for league matches as well.
“The BCCI will start the domestic season 2020-21 with the Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 tournament from January 10th 2021, onwards,” Shah stated in the letter, a copy of which is in possession of PTI.”The teams are required to assemble in their respective host cities on or before January 2, 2021, and will be needed to undergo COVID-19 testing procedures and quarantine in accordance with the state regulatory authorities,” Shah added.
The Plate Group games will be played in Chennai, which consists of eight teams. On the other hand, other 30 teams have been divided into five Elite Groups and the knock-outs are slated to take place from January 26, with the quarter-finals will be played on January 26 and 27 as well, while the two semi-finals will take place on January 29 and the final will be played on January 31 in Ahmedabad.
On the other hand, all the players will have to go through three COVID-19 tests on January 2, 4 and 6, and its results will be declared on the subsequent day as well. Apart from that, two COVID-19 tests will take place before the knock-outs too – one on January 20 and the other on January 22 as well.
Notably, Karnataka, the defending champions, have been placed in Elite Group A and they will play their games in Bangalore. Apart from them, Mumbai, who have been placed in Elite Group E will play in Mumbai where Bengal will play in Kolkata, being in Elite Group B as well.
Groups:
Elite Group A: Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Railways, Tripura (Venue Bengaluru)
Elite Group B: Odisha, Bengal, Jharkhand, Tamil Nadu, Assam, Hyderabad (Venue Kolkata)
Elite Group C: Gujarat, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh, Baroda, Uttarakhand (Venue Vadodara)
Elite Group D: Services, Saurashtra, Vidarbha, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Goa (Venue Indore)
Elite Group E: Haryana, Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, Mumbai, Kerala, Puducherry (Venue Mumbai)
Plate Group: Chandigarh, Meghalaya, Bihar, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh (Venue – Chennai)
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