THE TEAM WILL START THE SEASON AGAINST RAILWAYS AT ITS HOME GROUND.
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UT Cricket Association (UTCA) has announced the Chandigarh team for the Ranji trophy match against Railways which is commencing from January 5. The team will be led by Manan Vohra as the side will start its campaign at its own home ground Sector 16 Cricket Ground.
The league matches which last for almost one and a half months will have Chandigarh, Goa, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Punjab, Tripura and Karnataka in the same pool. UT’s second match is against the host team in Goa on January 12 followed by Gujarat at Sector 16 Cricket Stadium from January 19.
UT lads and host Tamil Nadu will face each other in the fourth match to be played in Coimbatore from January 26. Cricket Stadium, Sector 16 will be witnessing another clash between Punjab and host will take place at Sector 16 Cricket Stadium from Feb 2. Host will lock horns against Tripura at the same venue from February 9. The team will play its last league match from February 16 against hosts Karnataka at Hubli.
The team is as follows: Manan Vohra (captain), Arsalan Khan, Arjit Singh, Harnoor Singh, Mayank Sidhu, Gaurav Puri, Abhijeet Garg, Kunal Mahajan, Murugan Ashwin, Vishu Kashyap, Arpit Pannu, Sandeep Sharma, Nipun Pandita, Rohit Dhanda, Hartejaswi Kapoor.
One match suspension for three players: Keeping discipline paramount, UTCA has suspended three players for one match. UTCA investigated the indiscipline activity by Ankit Kaushik, Gurinder Singh and Jagjit Singh Sandhu during the last Ranji season. Taking cognizance of the same, a three-member committee under UTCA’s President Sanjay Tandon imposed a ban of two matches, but the board, expressing a soft corner towards the players, reduced the ban of two matches to one match. All three players will not be part of the first Ranji match to be held on January 5 at Cricket Stadium, Sector 16.
UTCA’s Secretary Devender Sharma said that indiscipline in the team will not be tolerated. Also, UTCA is also concerned about the players’ career.