The Board of Control for Cricket in India has made a few changes in the venues for the forthcoming Duleep Trophy tournament, to be held in Central Zone centers, from February 15 to March 12, BCCI sources informed in Mumbai on Tuesday.
Two matches that were originally scheduled to be played at Kanpur's Green Park have been shifted to Lucknow and Meerut by the Uttar Pradesh Cricket Association as the former is slated to play host to a One-Day International in the upcoming series between India and Pakistan.
This year's tournament assumes added importance as the first two rounds are to be played before the commencement of the Test series against Pakistan and all the top players are expected to take part to get tuned to the rigours of Test cricket.
The revised Duleep Trophy programme:
February 15-18: North Zone v West Zone at Lucknow; East v Central at Bikaner
February 22-25: West v South at Meerut; East v Bangladesh at Nagpur
March 1-4: North v South at Indore; Bangladesh v Central at Jaipur
March 8-12: Final at Nagpur.
