Bangladesh Is Now Hosting Cricket Trials on WhatsApp

As the Coronavirus-led pandemic has forced people to avoid massive social gatherings, the People's republic of bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) came upward with an ingenious idea for conducting cricket trials to recruit fresh blood to the team. According to recent reports, the BCB is now taking trials of aspiring cricketers over the popular messaging app, WhatsApp to reduce social contact between players and coaches.

Virtual Cricket Trials for the Win

As per the reports, the BCB recently ordered for the cosmos of 3 official WhatsApp groups for taking trials of the futurity cricketers. Each of these iii groups is for players of a certain age group. So, the three groups will entertain the players who are under-14, 16, and eighteen.

Now, in that location are WhatsApp groups for each of the 64 districts and eight divisions of the country. Also, there are further divided into viii more sets of groups for the zones of the Dhaka urban center surface area.

And so, with all these groups live on WhatsApp, interested players will exist able to send their trial videos to the groups, according to the reports. Regional coaches will then assess and analyze these videos to churn out 35-40 players from the vast number of cricket aspirants.

"They (players) have been asked to send their video to the respective commune and bounded coaches' WhatsApp number. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, that's how BCB is going to launch their talent hunt this year," a Bangladeshi source informed about the matter told IANS.

After the selection of the initial participants from their respective videos, the selected players will then have to go out for a proper in-person trial on the grounds. And from this phase, the players will get the take chances to join and railroad train with their commune or sectionalization teams, which usually consist of xv players.

So, among the ongoing time of crisis, I think this is simply a vivid decision taken by the Bangladeshi Cricket Lath (BCB) to continue their hunt for aspiring cricketers who are looking to make their country proud.