The Vijay Hazare ODI will begin on February 20 and the finals will be held on March 14. The tournament will be held in five cities and all matches will be played in a bio-bubble environment, the BCCI said. The BCCI recently agreed to Vijay Hazare’s program by deciding not to compete in the Ranji Trophy this year. After almost a year’s hiatus, domestic cricket was withdrawn from Syed Mushtaq Ali.
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Players must come to the Bio Bubble on February 13 for the tournament, after which they have to undergo the Kovid-19 investigation three times. BCCI Secretary Jai Shah announced the program on Saturday, citing five of the six locations. Eight teams from five cities – Surat, Indore, Bangalore, Kolkata, Jaipur and Plate Group – will play their matches on different grounds in Tamil Nadu. According to the BCCI protocol, players must undergo three RT-PCR tests before joining their bio-bubble. They will need to do so before the knockout stage (quarter-finals pre-season) begins on March 7.
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As per the BCCI notification, Elite Group A comprises Gujarat, Chandigarh Chandigarh, Hyderabad, Tripura, Baroda and Goa. Their matches will be played in Surat. Group B comprises Tamil Nadu, Punjab, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Vidarbha, Andhra Pradesh. The matches will be held in Indore. Group C matches will be held in Bangalore, with six teams from host Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, Kerala, Odisha, Railways and Bihar participating. The Group D comprises teams from Delhi, Mumbai, Maharashtra, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan and Puducherry and its matches are scheduled in Jaipur. Group E matches will be played in Kolkata with host Bengal, with teams from Army, Jammu and Kashmir, Saurashtra, Haryana and Chandigarh. Plate group matches will be held at various grounds in Tamil Nadu. It has teams in Uttarakhand, Assam, Nagaland, Meghalaya, Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram and Sikkim.
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