Vijay Hazare Trophy is considered to be the premier 50-over domestic tournament in the country. But this year, the BCCI officials took note of some lack of planning. This lack of planning saw some good teams such as Mumbai and Punjab getting knocked out of the tournament without a fighting chance.

While talking to IANS, a BCCI official said, “Not just sad (on the two teams), also poor planning. When you choose venues on a whim and when your planning is done without feedback and inputs from experienced members, you are courting disaster.”

The official then pointed out to the quarter-final match when Mumbai got knocked out by saying, “Have you seen the scoreboard? Mumbai were chasing Chhattisgarh's score of 190 and were placed comfortably at 95/0 after 11 overs. Are you telling me that they still didn't deserve a fair go? It is a long tournament, but reserve days in the knockouts shouldn't be such a big issue.”

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Even the newly appointed BCCI chief Sourav Ganguly said that the reserve day issue needs a relook but he gave Saba Karim the benefit of the doubt saying that the rules were clear at the start of the tournament.

“Yes, the pertinent point is whether a reserve day is to be kept for knockouts as quarter-final and semi-final are important. It (having a reserve day) is a practical thing, but you remember whatever happened it was on the basis of the rule which was given at the start of the tournament," he said.

(With IANS inputs)