India is ready to host Afghanistan in a three-ODI collection in June with an eye fixed on the World Cup. The collection will even outcome within the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) roping in an interim broadcaster.
Jay Shah, the BCCI secretary, confirmed each the developments on Friday. “The Media Rights tender will be released as per schedule this year (June-July) and will depend on the Afghanistan tour, but more likely the process will start from the Australia series (in September,” Shah stated right here throughout a select-media interplay.
“The Board will speak to all stakeholders concerned and will come up with an interim decision (for broadcaster).”
The Afghanistan collection – not included within the Future Tours Programme – will supply captain Rohit Sharma and head coach Rahul Dravid three extra alternatives to check out new combos forward of the World Cup, prone to start from October 5. The collection is prone to begin on June 16, 5 days after the scheduled conclusion of India’s World Test Championship remaining versus Australia.
With the published settlement between the BCCI and Star India having expired on the finish of March, will probably be attention-grabbing to see whether or not the BCCI floats a young just for the Afghanistan collection. As Shah hinted, the following four-year media rights tender will start with India’s three ODIs versus Australia in September.
Home and Away format for WPL 2024
Meanwhile, confirming that the Women’s Premier League (WPL) will change to a home-and-away format from its second version in 2024, Shah additionally admitted that the BCCI is contemplating switching the WPL to the Diwali window.
“We are mulling the possibility of scheduling the WPL, in the home and away format, in the Diwali window; not two seasons in a year but just a different time window,” Shah stated. “Women’s cricket now has a devoted viewers base and this quantity will solely continue to grow as we anticipate an encouraging turnout on the subsequent WPL.
Source: sportstar.thehindu.com