Aakash Chopra Warns BCCI As Team India Plans To Play Warm-Up Games In SENA Countries

Team India will be playing warm-up games in SENA countries. Photo: AP

Aakash Chopra has welcomed the idea of Team India playing warm-up games in SENA countries before a series, but has also warned about the quality of cricket which the home team offers. Speaking on his YouTube channel, Chopra said that the home teams now offer second-team players, while asking for quality to be maintained in these games. "If you are going to SENA countries, there will be mandatory warm-up games. There was an era when the England tour used to last the entire summer. It was a four-month tour where you played matches against county teams," Chopra said.

"Theoretically, it isn’t wrong, but I don’t know how to maintain the quality of those games. I don’t have the answer for that at the moment because, of the time I am talking about, the teams used to be good and they used to almost beat us. Now they play their second-team players, saying the match has no significance. So that one thing is still missing. The quality will have to be maintained a little," he added.

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