The Board of Control for Cricket in India’s move to have Ranji Trophy matches at neutral venues "failed miserably in its first attempt, according to leading domestic players," who said that the idea "did not work due to apathy of the host associations and poor planning," according to the PTI. The BCCI introduced the concept to "make the tournament more competitive by negating the home advantage that teams earlier used to exploit and exposing the players to different conditions." Domestic cricket veteran Rajat Bhatia said, "The idea was good but the implementation was third class. Most host associations did not show interest in organizing matches for other teams." Bhatia added, "The system was introduced to stop teams from taking undue home advantage with games often finishing inside two days. But the quality did not improve even though games were held at neutral venues." Another issue for the players "was scheduling of games as they had to travel to remote areas of the country with limited time in hand." India player Axar Patel said, "Scheduling was a big problem. Sometimes there was just a three-day gap between games and we had to travel to places which were not easily accessible, which meant we had to spend a lot of time on the road in buses." Lack of interest for the games was another reason why Patel "did not like the neutral venue initiative" (PTI, 1/17).