Rohan Jaitley (DDCA president), Yudhvir Singh (UPCA secretary) and Avishek Dalmiya (CAB secretary) are also part of the seven-member group
The other members include Rohan Jaitley, (DDCA president), Yudhvir Singh (UPCA secretary), Devajit Saikia (ACA secretary) Avishek Dalmiya (CAB secretary) and Santosh Menon (KSCA secretary). The working group’s immediate task is to formalise a compensation package for BCCI’s domestic players for the pandemic-induced truncated 2020-21 domestic season.
India’s rising Covid-19 cases and a small available window made even smaller by the staging of IPL 2020 in the UAE between September and November meant the BCCI couldn’t conduct their premier men’s domestic tournament, the Ranji Trophy, last year. In the women’s circuit, the domestic T20 competition was called off, while none of the age-group tournaments were possible.
“We will create bio-bubbles,” he told reporters last week. “We created bubbles for Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy and Vijay Hazare Trophy last time. We will have to do the same. Without the bubble, cricket cannot happen even for this season.”
Shashank Kishore is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo