Indian cricket will face the impact of COVID-19 pandemic : Rahul Dravid

Ex-Indian Captain and current junior’s coach, Rahul Dravid has expressed that the impact of COVID-19 will be greatly felt by the Indian cricket team if the game is not able to resume in another couple of months.

It is a well-known fact that India has a robust domestic cricket system with tournaments like Ranji Trophy, Duleep Trophy, Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy played all around the year.

But as for now, no clarity yet from the BCCI regarding the start of domestic cricket season yet, the former India captain believes the real impact of the pandemic will be seen in Indian cricket around October, especially when it comes to domestic cricket.

Dravid talks about the impact Cricket will face

“We’ve been lucky so far [that the pandemic started in March towards the end of BCCI’s domestic season], but come October, things might start getting stressful,” Dravid told the Deccan Herald.

He added, “A few international tournaments have been canceled and repositioned, and people can always find time and place for that, but once October comes around, that’s when I think it’ll start hitting us more. The next domestic season, for a lot of our young domestic player’s juniors, Under-16s, Under-19s, and women cricketers start in October.”

Indian players are all set to resume playing competitive cricket with the Indian Premier League makes a comeback in the United Arab Emirates in September.

And then in November, for the tour starting India will then travel to Australia for three T20Is, four Tests and three ODIs.

“If we aren’t able to get back to a level of normalcy from then it could take longer; we’ll see the real impact on our domestic cricket and grassroots cricket. This year is probably more important for someone in his final year of Under-19s than say for someone who is 23-24,” Dravid concluded.

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