The ICC T20 World Cup is just about three months away from inception, and would begin a few days after the conclusion of IPL 2024. This said, there will always be concerns regarding key players’ fitness. But since there is huge money involved, it is unlikely that the BCCI will look at their workload management.
As per a report in PTI, a senior BCCI official spoke about the issue, and said that team’s will have keep the board in loop, regarding the fitness of centrally contracted players.
“They are being paid highly and they can’t pick and choose games for franchises. But yes, for all those centrally contracted and targetted players (next lot), the franchise’s support staff will have to regularly provide fitness update to the NCA Sports Science head Nitin Patel.”
Meanwhile, it is also understood that the BCCI might send those players early to New York, venue of the T20 World Cup, whose teams don’t qualify for the playoffs.
