BCCI Secretary Jay Shah Announces New Incentive Scheme for Test Cricket, Check Out Full Details: After India’s win over England in the five-match test series by 4-1, BCCI Secretary Jay Shah made a significant announcement regarding the new Incentive Scheme for the test cricket to shift the focus toward domestic cricket over franchise cricket. This was a great move by BCCI to five financial incentives to domestic players for red-ball cricket.
The New Test Incentive Scheme will commence for the 2022-2023 season and under this scheme, the domestic players will get an additional reward structure over the top of the match fee and as of now, it is set to be around 15 lakhs for test matches. BCCI introduced this incentive scheme as young players were focusing on franchise cricket over red-ball cricket and it is expected that this might be quite successful.
BCCI strict action against Ishan Kisan and Shreyas Iyer:
However, Players get a big amount for playing franchise cricket but this additional incentive scheme will definitely will be a game changer for domestic cricket like the Ranji Trophy. This move came up after BCCI took strict action against Ishan Kisan and Shreyas Iyer, who refused to play Ranji Trophy despite being fit and available for the tournament therefore BCCI removed them from central contract list.
India Defeated England in the fifth test match in Dharamshala:
Indian Team played a dominating cricket in the fifth test match as they defeated England by an inning and 64 runs on Day 3 at Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium in Dharamshala. With this victory, Team India also won the five-match test series by 4-1 and moved to the top position in the latest ICC WTC Points Table 2024.
England batted first and they scored 218 runs in their first inning, Zak Crawley and Jonny Bairstow scored 79 and 29 runs, respectively. From the Indian bowling department, Kuldeep Yadav took five wickets whereas Ravichandran Ashwin took four wickets. Indian Spinners bowled exceptionally well against the English batter in the first inning despite the wicket didn’t have good turning patches.
Indian Team scored a massive 477 runs in their first inning as Yashasvi Jaiswal and Skipper Rohit Sharma gave a wonderful start to the team. Both the openers made a good partnership for 104 runs for the first wicket, However, Yashasvi got out by scoring 57 runs in 58 balls.
Skipper Rohit Sharma played a superb inning of 103 runs in 162 balls with 13 fours and 3 sixes whereas Shubman Gill scored 110 runs in 150 balls with 12 fours and 5 sixes in India’s first inning in the fifth test match in Dharamshala. Later on, Devdutt Padikkal and Sarfaraz Khan scored 65 and 55 runs, respectively therefore India scored 477 runs on the scoreboard.
After the first inning, England was trailing by around 259 runs but they got all out by scoring just 195 runs in their second inning therefore lost a crucial match against India. Joe Root scored 84 runs in 128 balls whereas Jonny Bairstow scored 39 runs in 31 balls. From the Indian bowling department, Ravichandran Ashwin took five wickets whereas Jasprit Bumrah and Kuldeep Yadav took two wickets each.
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