The Technical Committee of the Cricket Board, headed by Sunil Gavaskar,
is to meet on June four at Bangalore, the BCCI said today.
"The Technical Committee is to meet at Bangalore on June four. It will discuss
the suggestions put forth by captains and managers of last year's Ranji Trophy
teams at the one-day conclave (held in Mumbai last month)," said BCCI's Chief
Administrative Manager Ratnakar Shetty.
The BCCI has already decided to revamp the Ranji
Trophy format for the 2008-09 season by reducing the number of teams of
the Elite Division from the present 15 to ten, but this has created a
divide among the associations on how to go about it, according to another top
BCCI source.
"All the teams should be given a level playing field to
make it to the top ten in the 2008-09 season. The ideal way will be to scrap
the Elite and Plate divisions for the next season (2007-08)," he says.
"Splitting the 27 teams into three groups with equal distribution
of strong and weak sides and then promoting the top three teams in each group
plus the Ranji Trophy winners into the 2008-09 Elite division would prevent
lot of heart burns," the source feels.
The big question is whether the BCCI's Technical Committee
would agree to the suggestion of scrapping the two-division system temporarily
for one season to get to the bigger picture.
The decision to prune the Elite Division for the season after
next was decided by the board's all-powerful Working Committee at its World
Cup review meeting here last month.
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