da mrbet： The knockout rounds of India’s domestic Under-22 championship, the CK Nayudu Trophy, have been postponed to December due to a lack of qualified umpires and the unavailability of quality grounds
ESPNcricinfo staff25-Nov-2011The knockout rounds of India’s domestic Under-22 championship, the CK Nayudu Trophy, have been postponed to December due to a lack of qualified umpires and the unavailability of quality grounds. Right now first-class, Under-19 and women’s cricket, as well as the India-West Indies series, is being played across the country, contributing to the shortage.The BCCI’s chief administrative officer, Ratnakar Shetty, confirmed the matter. “The Under-16, Under-19 age groups are overlapping with the Ranji matches,” he told the . “At certain places we didn’t have proper umpires from our authorised panel and in certain places good grounds weren’t available.”After two years we are having Under-19 zonal games because of the World Cup [scheduled for August 2012, in Australia]. So keeping all these things in mind, we have decided to postpone the Under-22 knockout rounds from November 26 to December 15.”At present, apart from the Under-19 zonal games, the women’s one-day championship is on. The next round of Ranji Trophy games will be played between November 29 and December 2. The Under-19 Cooch Behar Trophy and Under-16 Vijay Merchant Trophy will also commence from December 1. The third Test against West Indies is scheduled to finish in Mumbai on November 26, and is followed by five one-dayers between November 29 and December 11. Regulations stipulate that all domestic matches require a minimum of three officials, Ranji Trophy matches need four, while televised matches need five.”Frankly we didn’t anticipate this sort of a problem,” Shetty said. “From next year, we will schedule the matches in a better way so that all games are held in an organised manner.”