The BCCI will host the Vijay Hazare Trophy from February 20 to March 14 in six cities, with teams entering the bio-safe bubble from February 13 to undergo three COVID tests.
The BCCI will host the Vijay Hazare Trophy from February 20 to March 14 in six cities, with teams entering the bio-safe bubble from February 13 to undergo three COVID tests. BCCI Secretary J. Shah on Saturday released a schedule of five of the six locations in Surat, Indore, Bengaluru, Kolkata, Jaipur. The eight plate group teams will be playing their matches at different grounds in Tamil Nadu. As per BCCI protocol, players will undergo three RT-PCR tests in their respective bio-bubbles and three more on arrival before the start of the knock-out stages (pre-quarter-finals) from 7 March.
According to the BCCI notification, Elite Group A will include Gujarat, Chandigarh, Hyderabad, Tripura, Baroda, Goa. The venue will be Surat. Group B consists of Tamil Nadu, Punjab, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Vidarbha, Andhra Pradesh. Group C matches will be held in Bengaluru, with hosts Karnataka, UP, Kerala, Odisha, Railways, and Bihar having six teams.
Among the Group D states, Delhi, Mumbai, Maharashtra, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Puducherry, and Matches are scheduled in Jaipur. Group E matches will be held in Kolkata with hosts Bengal in Seva, Jammu, and Kashmir, Saurashtra, Haryana, Chandigarh.
Plate group matches will be held at various grounds in Tamil Nadu and the teams are Uttarakhand, Assam, Nagaland, Meghalaya, Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, and Sikkim.
