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Captains to skip inaugural
The BCCI has decided that the six captains of IPL franchises barring Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings, won\'t need to attend the opening ceremony scheduled on April 7.
New Delhi: The BCCI has decided that the six captains of IPL franchises barring Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings, won't need to attend the opening ceremony scheduled on April 7.
It is learnt that all eight captains will do a special video shoot on April 6 and leave for their respective cities that very evening itself. Till last year, the convention was to have an opening ceremony a day before the first match, which captains would attend and sign the 'Spirit of Cricket' pledge.
This year it was decided at the IPL Governing meeting that opening ceremony would be held in Mumbai before the first match between MI and CSK.
However the goof up happened because senior IPL officials didn't do their homework on the logistical aspect of four other franchises, which have matches next day.
On April 8, there is a double header with Delhi Daredevils taking on Kings XI Punjab in Mohali at 4pm while RCB will meet KKR in Kolkata at 8pm.
"IPL team should have done their homework. They are calling Gautam Gambhir and Ravichandran Ashwin a day before an afternoon match. That's absolute lack of homework," a senior BCCI official told PTI.
Even Virat Kohli (RCB) and Dinesh Karthik (KKR) would have had to travel a day before the match although they have an evening game (8pm) to play. When contacted, acting president CK Khanna said:"We are aware that there are some logistical issues."
DRS to debut
Meanwhile, Shukla stated that DRS would be used from this season onwards. This is almost mandated by the ICC as its policy to cleanse the system.
By: Kushan Sarkar
