Mumbai: The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is said to have accepted the suggestion made by former Indian captain and current president of the Karnataka Cricket Association (KCA), Anil Kumble, to include three warm-up games in their series against Australia later this year.
Kumble's proposal to include two more first class games to the one already scheduled ahead of the opening Boxing Day (Dec 26) Test at Melbourne came at the Board's working committee meeting here on Monday.
"Kumble said that if only one first-class game is fixed only 11 players will be able to play in it and he wanted all 16 touring members to have a competitive game before the start of the Test series by having more games. His suggestion has been accepted," sources told PTI.
The Indian squad, led by Mahendra Singh Dhoni, played a lone first class game against Somerset during the ongoing tour of England before sliding to massive defeats in the first three Tests to also lose its No. 1 Test ranking which it had held on to for more than a year-and-a-half.
The sources also conceded it will be a tricky task for the Board to try and add more first-class games in the tune-up to the tour as there was hardly any time gap between the conclusion of the home ODI series against the West Indies and the departure of the team to Australia.
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