Powerful BCCI fails to ensure warm-up games for Team India in England
Updated On: 25 June, 2021 12:50 PM IST | Southampton | IANS
Now they are left with only intra-squad games to overcome the chinks. "Well, that doesn`t depend on us," said Indian skipper Virat Kohli in response to a question on whether India will be playing practice games against county teams.
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Indian players get together before the start of the fifth day of the World Test Championship final cricket match between New Zealand and India, at the Rose Bowl in Southampton, England. Pic/AP, PTI
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) may be called the strongest and the richest board in the world but it seems it doesn`t hold enough clout to get some county games for its team that is languishing in England.
India`s loss in the World Test Championship (WTC) final exposed chinks in its batting against the moving ball as New Zealand bowlers made the ball talk and picked wickets regularly, skittling out India for 170 on the sixth -- reserve -- day and putting their team on road to victory when it looked like the Test would end in a draw.
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