According to the Lodha Committee report, the many ills befalling Indian cricket had its roots in the state associations, especially at the junior level. Keen to eliminate favouritism at that level, the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) last year had come up with a system wherein each player was identified with a number allotted to them rather than their name on the jersey.
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(Representational image) This season's U-12 trials that took place last week "went more smoothly" according to Chandrakant Pandit, who was the pioneer of the idea. © Getty
While it took time to understand the new system then, this season's U-12 trials that took place last week "went more smoothly" according to former Test cricketer and MCA's director of coaching
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