Batting legend Sunil Gavaskar raised question marks over the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) for not carefully examining national team's World Cup 2019 schedule in the United Kingdom. 

There has been a lot of talk over why India is kickstarting its campaign six days later - against South Africa at Southampton on June 5 - from the tournament curtain-raiser on May 30. 

But Gavaskar's issue is the one-day gap between the game with England (June 30) later in the competition to the next one versus Bangladesh (July 2), both in Birmingham. 

"India is the only team who have just this one-day break while other teams have invariably a minimum of two between their next game. India will be playing after a whole week’s gap after their last warm-up game," he wrote in his column for Times of India. 

"All these factors may not count in the end, because the team is good and versatile, but if India do stumble then these aspects will have to be answered for."

Gavaskar feels India shouldn't have been entering a competition of this magnitude cold against a good quality team like South Africa, irrespective of Proteas' two consecutive defeats versus England and Bangladesh at the start of the event. 

"The internal issues at BCCI probably didn’t allow the officials to have a close look at the schedule before it was firmed up, else they would have noticed that India, one of the top draws of the event, were going to play their first game well after almost every other team would have played their second one," he further stated. 

"Going in cold against good teams is never easy, but neighbours Bangladesh have made it a bit better by defeating South Africa."

"There is another scheduling issue later in the month when India get just a day’s break after what promises to be hard, draining game against England before playing Bangladesh, and that could be a tricky one indeed," he concluded.