"And it probably goes into junior level also, try and scrap the ODI tournaments in U-23 or U-19, so that I feel the players will get sufficient breaks and they can look forward to these tournaments,¿ explained the highest run-getter in Ranji Trophy. Jaffer also stressed on the need for making the road to Ranji Trophy quarter-finals tougher. "And one more thing is having Ranji trophy with teams split into groups with nine teams each in A, B and C and three teams qualifying into knockouts from. Three teams from A group, three from B group of elite teams and you can have two teams qualify from the C group, so that makes it eight teams and have the quarter-final among those teams. "The D Group Plate, they should only get the incentive of topping the table to get the promotion into C group. I feel the top team from the D Group shouldn-t be allowed to play the quarter-finals, as that makes the competition a little weak,¿ said Jaffer, who announced his retirement in March. In the last season of Ranji Trophy, five teams from combined A and B Groups made it to the quarters, while two teams from Group C and one from Plate Group made the last eight. Gujarat, which had qualified from Group A and B combined, had faced Pondicherry , who had qualified from Plate Group in the Ranji quarters and Gujarat decimated Pondicherry.

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