Cooch Behar Trophy postponed due to widespread Covid cases in Maharashtra

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has delayed the Under-19 Cooch Behar Trophy competition, in progress in Pune. The choice follows far reaching Covid cases, essentially in Maharashtra, just as discovery of instances of disease among the taking part groups. The competition had arrived at the quarter-finals stage which was to start off on Tuesday (January 11). Various sources in the BCCI just as Maharashtra Cricket Association (MCA) have affirmed that the competition must be put off due to quickly expanding number of Covid cases. One BCCI official, notwithstanding, has kept up with that the choice was taken as a proportion of safeguard following expansion in the Covid cases in Maharashtra, which enrolled more than 40,000 new cases as of now. This site has additionally independently discovered that there have been irregular cases among the partaking groups. The Mumbai group, which qualified for the quarter-finals, has had a player, contaminated, and must be separated soon after their pre-quarter-finals game. Comparative cases were likewise found in Saurashtra, which was taken out of the opposition in the pre-quarter-last stage. The BCCI and MCA authorities have professed to have done all that could be within reach to keep the competition above water and had devoted floors in the inns for each group yet it later arose that cases got penetrated into the sides as circumstance declined. One authority has said that cases were distinguished among most groups driving the BCCI to cancel it. In Mumbai group alone, last heard, five players and an individual from the care staff, were tainted. Aside from Mumbai, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Rajasthan, Vidarbha, Bengal, Haryana and hosts Maharashtra qualified for the last-eight phase and were to be in real life from Tuesday. The BCCI as of late deferred the Ranji Trophy and Col CK Nayudu Trophy which were booked to start this month. The board additionally put off the Senior Women's T20 League was booked to begin one month from now and said the choice was "directly following rising number of Covid cases in the country."

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