India applies for third test innings

Team India loves to be bowled out

After two days in Nagpur test, BCIC has decided to apply in ICC for a third test innings for Indian batting side to avoid another humiliation. Team claims that being a developing country with 1.2 billion people, India deserves more chances to compete with fully developed nations in the field of cricket.

BCIC chief Pandeep Satil says, “Our demand is very easy to understand. Look at our population. We never get enough chance accordingly. That’s why we have decided to appeal to the ICC to give us three innings to bat in a test match.” He informed that in a high level meeting they also discussed a proposal to play with 16 players, but the board rejected it as it seems “against the principles of equality”.

Satil says considering the board’s power in the international cricket and looking at the recent Indian test results, “we are confident” that India’s demand will be met immediately. He is very hopeful that India will be able to bat in their “third” innings in Nagpur itself, because “two of the presently permitted Indian innings will be over within four days.”

India has lost all four test matches in England last year and repeated the same performance during Australia trip. Team India is still performing with the same “extraordinary” results loosing two out of three tests against England at the home soil. India looking at the similar fate in current test match being played at Nagpur cricket ground.

The proposed formula says that all the teams playing against India will be getting normal two innings of batting in a cricket test match, but Indians will be able to bat three times in the same matches. The formula has been developed by Indian Statistical Institute in consultation with CAG and Planning Commission.

A source close to ICC and BCIC denies that team India is not capable to compete with the world class teams, “Yes, we are capable, but we never got that extra space, which we need.”

The source says that it will be a moral booster for all the Indian players, once they got the third innings in test matches. Now the board is planning for future. He says, “Once we are successful in getting the third innings for test matches, we will be applying for 60 overs in One day matches for India against 50 for the other side.”

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