The Board of Control for Cricket in India will be organising the Vijay Hazare Trophy (domestic 50-over tournament) from February 20 to March 14 across six cities, with the teams entering the bio-secure bubble from February 13 in order to undergo three Covid-19 tests.
BCCI secretary Jay Shah on Saturday released the schedule with Surat, Indore, Bengaluru, Kolkata, Jaipur being five of the six venues. Eight Plate Group teams will be playing their matches at various grounds across Tamil Nadu.
As per the BCCI protocol, the players will undergo three RT-PCR tests in their respective bio-bubble and three more on arrival before the start of the knock-out stages (prequarter-finals) from March 7.
According to the BCCI notification, Elite Group A will comprise Gujarat, Chandigarh, Hyderabad, Tripura, Baroda, Goa. The venue will be Surat.
Group B consists of Tamil Nadu, Punjab, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Vidarbha, Andhra Pradesh with venue being Indore.
The Group C matches will be…
