The Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) would have written a letter to the Cricket Control Council in India (BCCI), requesting that renowned commentators Harsha Bhogle and Simon Doull be prohibited from covering all matches at the Eden’s gardens For the rest of season IPL 2025. Development follows a public criticism of the duo towards the pitch curator of the Eden gardens, Sujan Mukherjee.
The controversy was triggered after the remarks made by Bhogle and Doull on the pitch conditions in Eden Gardens and the role of the curator Mukherjee in their preparation. While the home team, Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR), had asked for tracks adapted to a spin to help their quantities like Sunil Narine and Varun Chakravarthy, Mukherjee refrained from considering the demand and joined the BCCI directives concerning the preparation of the height. After that, Doull said that if the curator remained obstinate, KKR should consider moving completely from Kolkata.
However, CAB did not take the comment positively, believing that Mukherjee had been wrongly targeted. Sources of the association have revealed that Mukherjee only followed the BCCI rules book, which clearly indicates that the preparation of pitch and the soil is the responsibility of the host association and the place conservative appointed by the BCCI, not franchises or commentators. Mukherjee had responded to the criticism targeted to him.
“I don’t have to worry about what Harsha Bhogle or Simon Doull said. What matters to me is what spectators and my association say on the counter,” he said in a conversation with Revsportz.
“I am responsible for the BCCI for having produced a good sports window. In accordance with the BCCI directives, it is clearly mentioned that the preparation of Pitch and Sol for all the matches of the regular season IPL is the responsibility of the chief conservative of the host association under the direction of the BCCI-Assisée Curator, and they will be the case for the matches of India. to say in the preparing of the counter.
In particular, the BCCI did not officially respond to the letter from CAB, but neither Bhogle nor Doull will be seen in the panel of comments for the match on Monday between KKR and Gujarat Titans. With Eden Gardens also to welcome the qualifier 2 on May 23 and IPL Final on May 25, we still do not know if the two commentators will return to the microphone for future matches on the emblematic site.
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