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NEW DELHI: At a time when the BCCI is attempting to strengthen its first-class cricket structure, the scheduling of the Emerging Asia Cup in Oman has put the selectors in a spot.
The Asian Cricket Council (ACC) has moved away from the U-23 format and made it a seniors’ tournament, which means those who are picked will miss a couple of rounds of the all-important Ranji Trophy.
Keeping the T20 World Cup in 2026 in mind, the selectors are likely to pick white-ball specialists for the Emerging Asia Cup team.
Many state associations have been informed about potential selections. It has also been conveyed that these players could miss the second and third rounds of the Ranji Trophy.
Sources told TOI that the BCCI will need to revisit such scheduling in the future.
“The board is looking into it. The senior selection committee will be picking the team for the Emerging team this time and they will be focusing on picking players who are T20 specialists, because of the T20 World Cup in 2026,” sources said. “Retaining the U-23 format would have allowed many senior players to play Ranji,” the source added.
Players like Ayush Badoni, Harshit Rana, Tilak Varma and Sai Kishore could be in the Emerging India team, say sources.
In fact, the upcoming two months will be hectic in Indian cricket.
An India ‘A’ team is due to tour Australia in Oct while a T20I team will travel to South Africa for four T20Is in Nov, besides the senior India team playing Test matches against New Zealand.
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