"BCCI"

When England won the T20 series opener in Ahmedabad, he criticised the Indian team saying that the IPL team Mumbai Indians are stronger than the national team. “The @mipaltan are a better T20 team than @BCCI

Varun Chakravarthy was selected because he recovered from his shoulder injury that ruled him out of the Australia series.

Says, I don't have a magic bat to clean the administration quickly.

With the prevailing Covid-19 pandemic situation, BCCI chose only six venues for conducting the cash-rich league and omitted Hyderabad from the list

The matches will be played in Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata. The final will be played at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad.

He supported an appeal made by Telangana minister and ruling TRS Working President K T Rama Rao to BCCI and IPL to include Hyderabad as one of the venues.

He tweeted: Open appeal to @BCCI and @IPL office bearers to include Hyderabad as one of the venues for upcoming IPL season. Our effective COVID containment measures are reflected in our low number of cases among all metro cities in India

However, former England cricketer Kevin Pietersen, who came in support of the pitch, said he had enough of the criticism. Yes, the surface at Ahmedabad ensured that the ball was always likely to dominate in the third Test.

India had defeated England by 317 runs in the second Test and now both teams are getting ready to battle it out in the day-night Test at the newly-built Motera Stadium.

Another source said that all the other players will undergo COVID-19 tests on Tuesday with the results coming by evening. Bihar has sent 22 players for testing.