The Indian players got to witness the first major repercussions of not obeying the direct instructions from the BCCI to play domestic cricket as the board removed Shreyas Iyer and Ishan Kishan from the annual central contracts list. Iyer, who was dropped from the Test team after the second game against England in Visakhapatnam, didn’t make himself available to play for Mumbai in the Ranji Trophy for his side’s final group stage game and then the quarter-finals as he was allegedly recovering from a back spasm. Similarly, Ishan, who returned to competitive cricket in the ongoing DY Patil T20 Cup, too didn’t play a single match in the Ranji Trophy.
