Vikas Mishra, Lucknow. Uttar Pradesh Cricket Association (UPCA) is forcefully giving opportunities to Arvind Kapoor, who has played a total of 15 first-class matches for Railways and Uttar Pradesh, and he is continuously causing harm to the cricket of the state.
Uttar Pradesh, the country's largest state in terms of population, has been waiting for the Ranji Trophy title for 21 years. In Vijay Hazare Trophy, UP was eliminated after losing in the quarter-finals while in Ranji Trophy, the team failed to make it to the knockout round for the fourth consecutive season.
In the first match of the second phase, weak coach Arvind Kapoor along with captain Aryan Juyal took such poor decisions that the Uttar Pradesh Ranji team had to suffer its biggest defeat at home. Uttar Pradesh team lost that match to Jharkhand by an innings and 301 runs. Vidarbha defeated the team by four wickets in the last league match.
You can gauge the level of coach Arvind Kapoor is from the fact that despite playing at his home ground, he fielded only two fast bowlers against Jharkhand while the visiting team included four fast bowlers. Either his understanding is weak or he did not feed other fast bowlers in the team to feed his favorite players.
Not only Kapoor's strategic decisions but his behavior with his teammates are also discussed in the entire state. After the final of UP T-20 League, everyone saw him saying very dirty things to the coach of the opposition team in the middle of the field. This time he had a dispute with Ranji captain Karn Sharma.
Team members say that there was abuse, after which the captain was thrown out in the middle of the Ranji Trophy. Karn Sharma had scored 151 runs with the help of a century and also taken five wickets in four matches of the first phase.
Uttar Pradesh last entered the knockout round in the 2021-22 Ranji season, but its performance in 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25 and 2025-26 was not even mediocre.
Former Ranji cricketer Ashok Bambi said that in the last match, captain Aryan Juyal and coach Arvind Ekana had failed to read the mood of the wicket. The UPCA official said that the coach who himself has scored a total of 443 runs in his first-class career and taken two wickets, it is clear to everyone what he will do to the cricket of the country's largest state.
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