BCCI U-16 event postponed after virus surge

The U-16 Vijay Merchant Trophy has been postponed as a result of latest surge in Covid-19 instances in India.
In its electronic mail to all its affiliated models on Thursday, the Indian cricket board’s secretary Jay Shah, knowledgeable that home cricket had began off properly, with the completion of 748 matches until date, nevertheless, the sudden spike in instances has pressured the board to postpone its junior event.
“The cases across lndia are spiralling and despite being a large number of adults doubly vaccinated, they have still been infected. We have been closely monitoring the situation in lndia and across the world, and it is estimated that the caseload will shoot up in the immediate future if the situation is not controlled now,” Shah wrote an electronic mail, accessed by The Indian Express.
Further including, “After consulting experts and seeking views of the medical teams and operations team, it has been decided that keeping health and safety in mind, the U16 Vijay Merchant Trophy is postponed for this season.”
As per Shah, the first purpose is that the contributors are nonetheless not vaccinated and as such, are susceptible. The BCCI doesn’t need to take any dangers with its junior cricketers.
“We must exercise caution and not be adventurous and put the health of our talented cricketers at grave risk,” he identified.

60 Bone Tests to find out age fraud performed
The BCCI recreation improvement supervisor Dhiraj Malhotra had earlier despatched a letter to all state models on Wednesday informing them that Indian board had determined to permit 60 U-16 gamers whose bone check end result confirmed 16.5. Malhotra reasoned that Vijay Merchant is performed each September, nevertheless, as a consequence of pandemic there was delay in conducting the TW3 bone check.

Malhotra in its letter to all models wrote, ” These bone checks occur 2 months previous to the event, often ranging from July of yearly. This 12 months the event is being performed after COVID induced hole of 1 12 months and likewise is delayed by 4 months from its regular timing. Therefore the bone checks had been additionally delayed by 3 – 4 months and so they began within the final week of November and went upto twentieth December.”

As per Malhotra’s letter many gamers had been discovered above the brink restrict of 16.5 years within the bone check. Considering the delay in conducting the bone check and event, a number of associations had requested BCCI to assessment all of the borderline (16.5) instances, in order that gamers don’t lose out due to no fault of theirs for this 4 month delay.
“BCCI, therefore requested all its external consultants to review all the 16.5 marked cases. Ratings were revised for about 60 players by these external consultants, across all the associations,” permitting 60 gamers to participate in under-16 tournaments.