BCCI to review recent white-ball setbacks
The BCCI is planning a comprehensive performance review of the Indian national cricket team following recent white-ball series defeats in Ireland and England. The review aims to align selection policy and team management strategy ahead of upcoming World Cup tournaments.
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The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) will undertake a comprehensive review of the national team’s recent white-ball setbacks, with a meeting involving the game’s key decision-makers scheduled towards the end of July after the conclusion of India’s ongoing tour to England.
BCCI secretary Devajit Saikia confirmed that the meeting will bring together the board hierarchy and the team’s principal stakeholders to chart the roadmap towards the next year’s ODI World Cup in South Africa and the defence of the T20 World Cup title in Australia and New Zealand in 2028.
Describing India’s successive T20I series defeats in Ireland and England as “a bad phase” rather than a cause for panic, Saikia stressed that the exercise would be a “performance review” rather than a knee-jerk reaction.
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