New Delhi : The COVID-19 pandemic has done what even the Second World War could not: bring to a halt the Ranji Trophy’s 87-year-old non-stop journey.
And eminent players of the past, many of whom had used the country’s premier domestic tournament as a platform to announce their arrival, sympathised with the current lot of cricketers, but also agreed with the BCCI’s unprecedented decision to not conduct the tournament for the first time since its inception in 1934-35.
“I am sympathetic to what players might be feeling but I think whatever decision BCCI has taken is in the best interest of everyone,” former India keeper Chandrakant Pandit, one of the country’s finest domestic coaches, told PTI on Sunday.