The officers of main cricket centres, which haven’t been allotted an ODI World Cup matches, have expressed their disappointment at lacking out on a possibility to host video games of the ICC occasion in October-November. The International Cricket Council (ICC) and host BCCI introduced the World Cup schedule on Tuesday, finalising 10 venues for the occasion starting October 5.

The established cricket centres which have missed out embody Mohali, Indore, Rajkot, Ranchi and Nagpur. The chosen venues embody Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Dharamsala, Delhi, Chennai, Lucknow, Pune, Bengaluru, Mumbai and Kolkata. The metro cities often get to host the World Cup video games and aside from that, the matches are allotted zone sensible and in some circumstances private preferences come into play.

Though it’s an ICC occasion, the world physique tends to go together with venues proposed by the native organising committee, which is the BCCI on this case.

Indore, which repeatedly will get to host worldwide video games and staged an ODI and Test earlier this yr, is among the many main centres to have missed out on a World Cup fixture.

Abhilash Khandekar, president of Madhya Pradesh Cricket Association, expressed his disappointment.

“Indore hosted a World Cup game between Australia and New Zealand back in 1987. We feel bad that Indore has been left out. I don’t know the compulsions of the BCCI. Indore has a rich cricketing history and therefore we expected it to be a venue of the World Cup,” Khandekar informed PTI.

Though the ICC does not put a restrict on the variety of venues, the lesser the venues the lesser the logistical challenges in organising an occasion which lasts for a month and a half.

In the 2019 ODI World Cup, 11 venues have been used although groups didn’t have to take flights because it was being held in England. In the 2015 version held within the a lot greater Australia, as many as 14 venues have been used to stage 49 video games.

The T20 showpiece, alternatively, is wrapped up inside a month because it was the case with the 2022 version in Australia.

Officials of state models have been briefed by the BCCI over venues throughout the IPL remaining final month and extra just lately on Monday, a day earlier than the schedule was introduced. “We were told that 4-5 big metros will be picked plus there will be zones (north, south, west, east, central) will get a game each and Ahmedabad being the largest stadium will host the final,” stated a state unit official.

Barring Hyderabad, all of the chosen World Cup venues will get 5 video games. Ahmedabad, which has hosted the earlier two IPL finals, will get to host the World Cup remaining, in addition to essentially the most awaited conflict of the event — India versus Pakistan — on October 15.

“It seems only metros and cities where the office bearers are from have got games. We pushed for it really hard but could not get a game. Disappointing not to get even a practice game,” stated a supply within the Punjab Cricket Association which has been internet hosting World Cup video games since 1996.