27 December 2023, 07:18 AM IST Ahead of the Ranji match, Alappuzha SD. Final preparations are going on in the college grounds
Alappuzha:This is the first time that Alappuzha will be the venue for the Ranji Trophy cricket match. SD The match will be against U.P. at the college ground from January 5. The game is for four days. The camps of the Kerala team are regularly held here, but this is the first time that the Ranji Trophy match is being allowed here.
Ranji Trophy matches are held at Thumpa St. Xavier’s Ground, Kariyavattam Greenfield, KCA’s own ground in Kazhakoottam Mangalapuram and Krishnagiri in Wayanad. This time the match was BCCI. Alappuzha was allowed.
Sanju and team
The Kerala team for the Ranji Trophy was announced yesterday. Sanju Samson is the captain. Jalaj Saxena, N.P. Basil, Basil Thambi, Akshay Chandran, Shreyas Gopal, Ananthakrishnan, Krishnaprasad, Rohan Kunnummal, MD. The team members are Nidhish, Rohan Prem, Sachin Baby, Vysakh Chandran, Vishnu Vinod, Suresh Vishweshwar and Vishnuraj. The Uttar Pradesh team has not been announced. Last year there were well-known stars like Priyam Garg, Dhruv Jural, Rinku Singh and Shivam Mavi.
Firecracker Rinku Singh has become a part of the Indian Twenty20 team. Indian player Bhuvneshwar Kumar, 20-year-old Sameer Rizvi, who was bought by Chennai Super Kings for 8.40 crore rupees, will be in the team. Accommodation has been arranged for the Kerala team in Ramada.
U.P. The team chooses their own hotel. They will reach Alappuzha on the second date. Both the teams will conduct net practice on the 3rd and 4th dates. Kerala’s best performance so far was reaching the semi-finals in the 2018-19 season. In 2017, it reached the quarter.
International standard ground
Since 2008, S.D. The college ground is maintained by the Kerala Cricket Association (KCA). The contract was renewed again this year. According to the agreement, KCA will supervise the ground for another 18 years. KCA has an international standard pitch and outfield. Prepared. There are nine wickets.
District Cricket Association President Manoj Unnikrishnan said that the average distance to the boundaries is 70 meters. It may vary slightly depending on the pitch you decide to play on. Ground selection criteria for ODI Twenty20 matches is not the same as for multi-day matches.
The general trend is that the pitch wears itself down day by day and favors spin. If the batter or bowler is completely in favor, the rating will be bad. This will affect the granting of competition later. Alappuzha has hosted Cooch Bihar Trophy matches for Under 19s several times.
Pink tournaments, club tournaments and many other competitions were held here. The Ranji match is coming to Alappuzha after the excellence of the ground is confirmed. The ground has all modern facilities, including a super soper (a machine that collects water from the ground when it rains). M. Mohammad Rafi, Nikhil A. Patwardhan are the match umpires.
BCCI The curator will come
BCCI to oversee the pitch. Curator Jacinta Kalyan will arrive on the 30th. She works in the Karnataka Cricket Association and is also leading the maintenance of the Chinnaswamy Stadium. Jesintha is the only woman curator in the country. They will decide four of the nine pitches. Two of them will be prepared equally. Select the playing pitch at the end. One more precaution.
Curator Vimal T. of Alappuzha, who maintains the ground, says that the amount of grass on the pitch, rolling, watering etc. is decided by considering various conditions including the weather. Chandran said. The general policy of the BCCI is that the pitches should allow the batsmen and bowlers to perform at their best. The grounds are planted with Bermuda grass.
Now C.K. Naidu Trophy
CK of the under-23 category. Kerala and Andhra Pradesh clash in Naidu Trophy in Alappuzha. The four-day tournament will begin on the 14th.
Practice match from today
The practice match ahead of the Ranji Trophy will begin on Wednesday. Kerala’s opponents are Pondicherry. It is not clear whether Sanju Samson, who was in South Africa with the Indian team, will make it. Both teams reached Alappuzha on Tuesday evening.
2023-12-27 01:48:00
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