70-yr-old Talim Shield shifts to Twenty20 mode

With a Vijay Hazare domestic one-day foe resolved [Mumbai won a title], a city cricketers can distinction from a T20 Talim Shield before a T20 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy scheduled for Feb subsequent year

70-yr-old Talim Shield shifts to Twenty20 mode

The Padmakar Talim Shield, deliberate a world’s oldest singular overs cricket tournament, will be a Twenty20 eventuality this year as opposite a 45 overs-a-side format. It is learnt that MIG Cricket Club (Bandra, East), a organisers of a tournament, were sensitive by a Mumbai Cricket Association that a depart from a aged format would be usually for a year.

With a Vijay Hazare domestic one-day foe resolved [Mumbai won a title], a city cricketers can distinction from a T20 Talim Shield before a T20 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy scheduled for Feb subsequent year.

Of course, there is also a T20 Mumbai joining [on a lines of IPL] that could be hold before a 2019 book of a Indian Premier League. The Talim Shield is abounding in story and deliberate a poignant satisfactory continue contest along with a Purshottam and Comrade Shields.

The Talim Shield was started in 1948 by 3 friends – Manohar N More, Ramesh B Dhonde and Balchandra Patil – in memory of their propagandize crony Padmakar Talim, who died on Oct 6, 1947 due to appendicitis.

The initial book was hold in 1948. Initially, single-innings matches involving 8 teams, were hold on Sundays and finished on a following Sunday, though logistic problems led to a MCA similar to a singular overs (50 overs) format from 1951. Since 1987, it has been played on a 45 overs-a-side basis.

It is learnt that a change in format for this deteriorate has been supposed by a clubs, though some of them have lifted a prerequisite to control matches during gymkhanas that have a 30-yard round so really essential to belong to T20 manners and regulations.

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