The Board of Control for Cricket in India has shifted the knockouts of the men’s Under-23 State A Trophy Elite tournament from Delhi to Mumbai, in light of the severe air pollution that the state is grappling with at the moment, according to a report in The Indian Express.

The BCCI has requested the Mumbai Cricket Association to get ready to host the games scheduled from November 25 to December 1.

The likes of Baroda, Uttarakhand, Bengal and Chandigarh will play the last group-stage games of the tournament starting Friday across Ranchi, Jaipur, Ahmedabad and Vadodara.

“We got a call from the BCCI today, informing us that the MCA has been allotted the under-23 one-day knockouts due to high air pollution in the capital. Cricket can’t be played in those conditions," a source in the Mumba

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