The Great India Domestic Season

The Great India Domestic Season

The story of domestic cricket in India isn’t much different from that of small-town India: vying for recognition and hoping to make a mark nationally 
Dear Readers,
Nothing gives me more pleasure than penning down my thoughts on the great Indian domestic season. The story isn’t much different from that of small-town India: vying for recognition and hoping to make a mark nationally. With aspirations, come trials, fascinating and enduring. This blog is indeed an effort to bring those many untold yet intriguing stories about first-class cricket to the forefront, and hence give you readers an opportunity to get to know Indian cricket closely.
A good parameter to determine how serious state cricket associations are about a lacklustre, bland, and apparently irrelevant domestic match is simply the intent and the initiative that has gone into organising it. Sample this for instance: in the North Zone, all matches are still played during the day, on a venue with two grounds, accommodating two matches simultaneously. The facilities, whatever little, are of course divided between four teams, with two of them being forced to sit in makeshift dressing rooms made in the form of tents. And if that doesn’t speak enough about the abysmal affairs, all four teams and the staff share only two toilets. Of course, the managers of the show would have wanted to cut down ‘undue’ work and hassle and so have continued to plan such games year after year. What is put on stake though is – a first-class player’s honour, the quality of the show, and the state cricket association’s reputation. Clearly then, neither the game nor the player is the real stakeholder in domestic tournaments.
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