Gill to play for Punjab in a closed-doors affair

India’s Test and ODI skipper Shubman Gill volition crook up for Punjab successful a Vijay Hazare Trophy fixture against Sikkim connected Saturday, but the lucifer volition beryllium played down closed doors.

Last week, much than 20,000 spectators had turned up astatine the Sawai Mansingh Stadium to ticker Rohit Sharma successful enactment for Mumbai. However, Punjab volition play astatine the Jaipuria Vidyalaya Ground, wherever determination are nary facilities for the spectators.

Situated wrong the schoolhouse premises, the crushed has nary due seating arrangements for spectators. Even though there’s a tiny assemblage supra the players’ changing rooms, it is lone restricted to the BCCI delegates, and the students of the schoolhouse and the academy.

A mates of days ago, erstwhile Yashasvi Jaiswal featured for Mumbai against Goa astatine the aforesaid ground, hundreds of spectators climbed up the precocious walls to drawback a glimpse of the Indian Test opener.

“The fixtures were decided overmuch successful advance, and backmost then, determination was nary clarity astir the availability of the planetary players,” D.D. Kumawat, the convenor of the ad-hoc committee for the Rajasthan Cricket Association, told The Hindu.

With India’s T20I skipper Suryakumar Yadav besides acceptable to play for Mumbai against Himachal Pradesh connected Tuesday astatine the aforesaid venue, determination were speculations that the crippled could beryllium shifted to the Sawai Mansingh Stadium, which tin accommodate astir 25,000 spectators. But Kumawat said that with a programme scheduled there, a alteration was not possible.