'Inke basis pe selection hota bhi kaha hai' - Fans slam Indian Cricket Board as Duleep Trophy 2023 reported to get no television broadcast

The Indian domestic cricket season is set to start with the Duleep Trophy 2023. A lot of new youngsters will be featured in this highly-anticipated domestic tournament. There will be some players to watch out for in the tournament. the list includes the like of senior Indian Test specialist batter Cheteshwar Pujara. Other than him, the star north zone player Rinku Singh will also be a key factor to watch out owing to his heroics recently in Indian Premier League 2023.

Meanwhile, the Indian Cricket Board has fallen on the receiving end of criticism from the Indian cricket fans. It is because the Board has decided not to broadcast this edition of the Duleep Trophy on television.

The fans took to the micro-blogging site Twitter and called out the Indian Cricket Board for not promoting domestic cricket. Some fans also blamed the Board for focusing only on the money rather than the promotion of grassroots cricket.

Here’s how fans reacted:

Inke basis pe selection hota bhi kaha hai !!

— CricKabila (@MTapree) June 27, 2023

World cup ke warm up matches dikhawo ge but deleep trophy nhi dikha sakte 😏

— Hitesh Manoj Chaudhari (@HiteshManojCha1) June 28, 2023

Richest board doesn't care about domestic

— athul joju (@athuljoju) June 27, 2023

Shame. Richest Board in the world

— Rajesh Bengrodi (@RBengrodi) June 27, 2023

Bhai hume nahi selectors ko pakad ke dikhao domestic game taki unki ankhe khule.

— Shubham_Srivastava 🇮🇳 (@4u_shubh365) June 27, 2023

Great trick by BCCI to not let us outrage on selections.

— Silly Point (@FarziCricketer) June 27, 2023

BCCI can telecast it on youtube if they want they are that rich but money is what they are after.

— kuldeep singh (@ksnaruka99) June 27, 2023

We hv work and a lot to do.......

— Venkatesh Bharadwaj🇮🇳 (@VBharadwaj02) June 27, 2023

They can produce and telecast on YouTube like counties

— ⓤ𝐝ⒶⓎ 🇮🇳 (@goduday) June 27, 2023

Yt pe dikha do koi

— Rishab Garg🇮🇳 (@sharmaarnik) June 27, 2023

Speaking of the current action o the Duleep Trophy, the first and second quarterfinals are being played. Central Zone and East Zone are locking horns in the first quarterfinal at the KSCA ground in Alur. On the other hand, North Zone and North East Zone are taking on each other in the second quarterfinal at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru.

The semi-finals of the tournament will start from the 5^th of July followed by the title clash on the 12^th of July next month.

Apart from this, the national Team of India, they are set to tour West Indies for the two-match Test series, three-match ODI series, and five-match ODI series. The selectors have already announced the squad for the Test and ODI series against the Caribbean side. The Rohit Sharma-led side will lock horns with West Indies in the first of the two-match Test series on the 12^th of July next month.