Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], September 3 (ANI): The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Thursday held a evaluation assembly to evaluate India’s latest struggles on abroad assignments and tackle rising issues over participant workload and accidents, with BCCI Secretary Devajit Saikia saying the board has chalked out a method for future excursions to SENA (South Africa, England, New Zealand and Australia) nations and can look to restructure the Future Tours Programme (FTP) to supply gamers with ample relaxation and acclimatisation.
Along with Saikia, India Test and ODI skipper Shubman Gill, T20I captain Shreyas Iyer, head coach Gautam Gambhir, Centre of Excellence (CoE) head VVS Laxman and prime BCCI officers have been additionally current on the assembly held on the BCCI headquarters in Mumbai.
India’s latest struggles in abroad assignments offered the backdrop to the evaluation assembly, with the Men in Blue struggling a 2-0 T20I sequence defeat in opposition to Ireland, adopted by a 4-0 loss to England within the shortest format. They additionally went down 2-1 within the ODI sequence in England.
Speaking to reporters, Saikia admitted that India’s performances in Ireland and England required introspection and mentioned the board has mentioned a method for future excursions to SENA nations.
‘Yes, we didn’t do properly. You all know that we misplaced matches in Ireland and in addition in England within the T20 and ODI; we additionally misplaced by 2-1, so we needed to know what the explanations are. We must do sure soul-searching about that, and in future, what we will likely be doing earlier than going to any of the SENA nations; we now have chalked out some technique on that,’ he mentioned.
Player health and the mounting workload on cricketers have been additionally mentioned at size. Saikia pointed to the demanding schedule, together with the two-month IPL stint earlier than India’s England task, as an element that may contribute to accidents.
Notably, ace pacer Jasprit Bumrah and all-rounders Nitish Kumar Reddy, Washington Sundar and Harshit Rana have been included in India’s squad for the upcoming three-match T20I residence sequence in opposition to Afghanistan, topic to health clearance.
Bumrah’s final worldwide match got here in opposition to England on July 16, at Sophia Gardens in Cardiff. He was subsequently dominated out of the ultimate ODI at Lord’s, with the BCCI attributing his absence to an influence harm sustained whereas fielding in Cardiff. Bumrah additionally missed India’s Test sequence in opposition to Sri Lanka, which the guests gained 1-0.
Another participant underneath the highlight is all-rounder Hardik Pandya, who continues his comeback from harm. Pandya has been sidelined for the reason that IPL 2026 season after initially being troubled by again stiffness earlier than sustaining a thigh harm.
The all-rounder subsequently missed India’s limited-overs sequence in opposition to Afghanistan, the ODI and T20I tour of England, and the white-ball sequence in Zimbabwe. He has not featured in aggressive cricket since captaining Mumbai Indians in IPL 2026, when the five-time champions did not qualify for the playoffs.
Saikia mentioned the gamers are selecting up accidents on account of a packed schedule. He highlighted the toll a busy schedule takes on their well being and mentioned efforts are being made to search out methods to handle participant workload throughout the current home windows and Future Tours Programme (FTPs).
‘Individually gamers are having accidents as a result of they’re they must play lot of matches in case you have a look at their schedule in case you have a look at in England we now have 15 gamers crew went for the ODI and out of that 15 three 4 gamers bought injured in the course of the match however we now have to consider they’ve performed two months of IPL previous to that so all this takes toll takes toll on the well being of the gamers additionally and to keep away from these type of conditions what greatest we will do underneath the current home windows and current FTP’s we’re looking for out some methods out,’ he mentioned.
Saikia careworn that the evaluation was not geared toward any particular person participant and that the BCCI was as a substitute taking a look at broader health insurance policies and protocols.
‘There was no dialogue on any particular person participant at the moment this was at the moment’s dialogue was completely common in nature and what coverage and what protocols we now have to take care of concerning sustaining the health stage of each participant not any particular person and what’s greatest curiosity of the crew we now have thought-about that solely and we now have taken the feedbacks from the captains and the top coach who’re the fitting individuals to offer us the data in order that we chalk up a correct technique to keep away from all these type of undesirable conditions throughout any worldwide or bilateral matches,’ he mentioned.
Saikia mentioned that whereas inner operations and training groups throughout males’s, ladies’s, and Centre of Excellence (CoE) divisions are well-coordinated, excessive match quantity stays a key difficulty. To forestall participant fatigue, Saikia mentioned, the BCCI plans to restructure the upcoming FTP to prioritise ample relaxation, correct acclimatisation, and warm-up matches forward of main sequence in SENA nations.
‘Everybody is on the identical web page BCCI is working in a really properly like a well-oiled engine there may be correct coordination amongst all of the wings of BCCI whether or not it’s ladies’s crew committees or their technical workers or their coaches vis-a-vis the COE vis-a-vis the Indian males’s crew’s teaching workers and the top coach there isn’t any issue within the coordination all the things is transferring in the fitting path the one challenges which we face is that there are too many matches within the yr and that’s the reason within the subsequent FTP we’ll do sure issues we’ll take sure measures we now have instructed our FTP individuals who will likely be assembly very quickly in numerous worldwide boards that our FTP needs to be in such a approach it needs to be scheduled that there’s correct relaxation for the gamers in addition to some type of acclimatization or some type of pleasant matches earlier than any main sequence in SENA nations,’ he mentioned.
Saikia additionally revealed that the BCCI Selection Committee chairman, Ajit Agarkar, was not current on the assembly as he was out of station.
‘Today he was out of station he couldn’t be part of the assembly as a result of it was this assembly was referred to as at a really brief discover and our head of the choice committee Ajit he was not on the town so he couldn’t be a part of it and he was in such space that he couldn’t be a part of on-line additionally regardless of our greatest efforts at the moment,’ Saikia mentioned.
India’s instant assignments embrace the 2026 Asian Games males’s marketing campaign, a three-match T20I sequence in opposition to Afghanistan at residence, and a three-T20I and five-match ODI sequence in opposition to West Indies at residence. After that, the crew will play 5 T20Is, 5 ODIs, and two Tests in opposition to New Zealand in an away task, three ODIs and three T20Is at residence in opposition to Sri Lanka, three ODIs and three T20Is at residence in opposition to Zimbabwe, and a five-Test sequence in opposition to Australia, additionally at residence.
Saikia additionally mentioned the BCCI would take acceptable measures to make sure the very best services for India’s gamers and assist workers on the Asian Games if the necessity arises, although Saikia mentioned the matter was not a part of Thursday’s assembly.
‘There is not any such difficulty which we now have mentioned or which is in our agenda at the moment or previous to at the moment additionally so we’re not going to have any difficulties in Japan if any type of scenario arises we’ll take a acceptable name on the proper time and in order that we be certain that our gamers and the assist workers will get the very best of services in Asian Games whether or not it’s from their organizers if required BCCI can have its personal system in place to supply the very best services to our gamers.’
Notably, Saikia’s remarks concerning the services on the Asian Games in Japan come after a BCCI supply beforehand advised ANI that Team India is likely to be sending a ‘B’ crew for the cricket event on the Games as a result of the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) and the BCCI are sad with the services and preparations in Japan.
The Asian Games will start in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, on September 19. The dates of the ladies’s and males’s cricket competitions are September 17-22 and September 24-October 3, respectively. (ANI)