A workshop on the FTP is scheduled to take place in Dubai on 22 and 23 September, and the BCCI will send its operations team to the meeting to discuss the international FTP matches for 2027-31, according to a Cricbuzz report. The Indian Board recently confirmed that it has instructed its FTP personnel to schedule matches so that players can get proper rest after several players suffered injuries due to gruelling schedules. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) will send its operations team to a workshop on the Future Tours Programme (FTP) as part of its bid to widen the gap between international matches. Meanwhile, operations teams from all other boards are expected to attend the meeting, and representatives from the top eight Associate members will be invited.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) will send its operations team to a workshop on the Future Tours Programme (FTP) as part of its bid to widen the gap between international matches.
If you look at their schedule, in England, we had a 15-player team go for the ODIs, and out of that, three or four players got injured during the match. Moreover, India last hosted a multilateral tournament in 2003-04, when they hosted Australia and New Zealand. India featured in three multilateral ODI series since the 2011 World Cup – in Australia with Sri Lanka as the third side in 2011-12, in the West Indies with Sri Lanka as the other side in 2013, and in Australia in 2014-15 with England as the other side.
For the upcoming T20I series against Afghanistan, the BCCI has named a full-strength squad; however, the participation of players such as Bumrah, Sundar, Reddy and Harshit Rana is ‘subject to fitness’ due to fitness concerns. Because they have to play a lot of matches, “Individual players are having injuries.
“We have instructed our FTP personnel, who will be meeting very soon in various international forums, that our FTP should be scheduled in such a way that it should be scheduled that there is proper rest for the players as well as some kind of acclimatisation through friendly matches before any major series in SENA countries,” Saikia said after the meeting on Thursday. Saikia noted the injuries, highlighting the short turnarounds between tournaments as a key factor. We have to think that they had played two months of IPL before that.
