27 Dec 2023, 07:18 AM IST Before Ranji match, Alappuzha SD. Final preparations are going on in the college grounds
Alappuzha:This is the first time that Alappuzha is the venue for a Ranji Trophy cricket match. DC The match against UP will be at the college ground from January 5. The match is for four days. Kerala team camps are held here regularly, but this is the first time a Ranji Trophy match has been allowed here.
Ranji Trophy matches are held at Thumpa St. Xavier’s Ground, Kariyavattam Greenfield, KCA’s own ground at Kazhakoottam Mangalapuram and Krishnagiri in Wayanad. This time the game was BCCI. Alappuzha was allowed.
Sanju and the team
The Kerala team for the Ranji Trophy was announced yesterday. Sanju Samson is the captain. Jalaj Saxena, NP 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 part of India’s 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 at Ramada.
UP The team chooses their own hotel. They will reach Alappuzha on the second date. Both teams will hold 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 land
Since 2008, SD The college ground is maintained by the Kerala Cricket Association (KCA). The agreement was renewed again this year. According to the agreement, KCA will oversee the land for another 18 years. KCA has an international standard pitch and outfield. Ready. There are nine wickets.
District Cricket Association President Manoj Unnikrishnan said the average distance to the boundaries is 70 metres. It may vary slightly depending on the pitch you decide to play on. Ground selection criteria for ODI Twenty20 matches are not the same as for longer matches.
The general trend is that the pitch wears itself down day by day and favors spin. If the batsman or bowler is completely in favour, the score will be poor. This will affect the granting of competition later. Alappuzha has hosted Cooch Bihar Trophy matches for under-19 team several times.
Pink tournaments, club tournaments and many other competitions were held here. The Ranji match is coming to Alappuzha after the superiority of the ground has been confirmed. The ground has all the 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 referees of the match.
BCCI The curator will come
BCCI to oversee the pitch. Curator Jacinta Kalyan will arrive on the 30th. She works for the Karnataka Cricket Association and also heads the maintenance of the Chinnaswamy Stadium. Jesintha is the only female curator in the country. They will decide on four of the nine areas. Two of them will be prepared equally. Select the playing field at the end. One more precaution.
Curator Vimal T. from Alappuzha, who maintains the grounds, says that the amount of grass on the field, 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 ground is planted with Bermuda grass.
Now there is CK Naidu Trophy
CK in the under 23 category. Kerala and Andhra Pradesh clash in the Naidu Trophy in Alappuzha. The four-day tournament will begin on the 14th.
Practice game from today
The practice match before the Ranji Trophy will start 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.
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