After the requests from various state associations, Saba Karim has decided to give the states 48 hours to finish the player registration before the tournament as per the mail received by the associations who had asked Karim to reconsider the decision. Earlier, Ratnakar Shetty, former General Manager and currently BCCI-appointed nominee looking after new entrants Uttarakhand, had written to Karim, letter accessed by Hindustan Times, and spoken of the genuine issues facing the state associations. Speaking about Hyderabad Cricket Association’s problem, Shetty wrote: “In Hyderabad, we had to organise the one day tournament to pick the 20 probables for the under-23 team to participate in the BCCI Tournament. The CEO of HCA has sent you a mail requesting BCCI ODMS to open the link for registration of players who were not in the four day format. Firstly he spoke of how the associations were unaware that old regulations of the board regarding registration of players had been abolished.

Source: Hindustan Times February 08, 2019 17:15 UTC