BCCI confirms 10-team IPL from 2022; Read More

NewsBharati    25-Dec-2020 10:59:37 AM
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Ahmedabad, Dec 25: In the meeting held at the AGM, the Board of Control for Cricket in India’s (BCCI) 89th Annual General Body Meeting the number of teams in the Indian Premier League (IPL) was also discussed. The cricket body approved a 10-team tournament in the IPL starting from the 2022 edition.
 
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The members talked over the inclusion of the two new teams into the IPL. According to reports, Ahmedabad, which is said to have the world’s largest cricket stadium at Motera with a seating capacity of 110,000, is all but certain to have a new IPL team.
 
In another major development, the Board, in principle, decided to back the ICC’s bid for the inclusion of cricket, in the T20 format, in the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics after getting clarifications from the International Olympic Committee.
 
All first-class players, both men, and women will be suitably compensated for the curtailed domestic season due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The BCCI plans to get the domestic season underway, after several months’ delay, in January with the Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 championship.
 
In other decisions, veteran Congress leader Rajiv Shukla has officially anointed the Board’s vice president in place of his protege Mahim Verma from Uttarakhand. It was also learned that the general body decided in favor of Sourav Ganguly continuing as a director in the ICC Board. Secretary Jay Shah will be the alternate director as well as India’s representative at the Chief Executive Committee meets of the global body.
 
Some of the other key decisions taken during the AGM are as follows:
  • The Electoral Officer, Mr. AK Joti announced the election of Rajeev Shukla as Vice President of BCCI. Further, Brijesh Patel and KM Majumdar were unanimously re-elected as members representative to the IPL Governing Council by the General Body.

  • Pragyan Ojha who was nominated by the Indian Cricketers Association (ICA) as a player representative, was inducted to the IPL Governing Council at the AGM.

  • The BCCI also increased the limit of reimbursement of insurance medical claims of retired First Class Cricketers to INR 10 Lakhs.

  • The retirement age of the BCCI affiliated umpires and scorers has also been increased to 60 years.