ByWhile no inconvenience is reported where coverage of the ongoing Ranji matches is concerned, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) seems to have a different approach to giving visibility to women’s cricket tournaments. A case in point was the way Mirror’s photographer was treated during the West Zone Women’s Cricket U-19 Zonal League in Ahmedabad.Match referee Rajani Venugopal took offence to the presence of our photographer who was at Motera ‘B’ to click pictures for the women’s match between Mumbai and Maharashtra. “We have got strict instructions that the press will not be allowed to cover BCCI matches. If you want, you can take permission from the BCCI and then come and shoot,” Venugopal told Mirror.The match referee took offence when our photographer displayed the BCCI-mandated accreditation card, which validates the media to shoot pictures or report on matches. “You cannot take pictures even if you have the card,” Venugopal said snappily. “I do not want to see any accreditation card,” she added even as the photographer tried to reason that no official ever objects to the media’s presence for the men’s matches.The host association, Gujarat Cricket Association (GCA), denied that the BCCI prohibited the media for the match. “No, we have no orders regarding any ban on media. If you have the BCCI-accredited card, you can cover the match,” GCA secretary Rajesh Patel said.Despite the intervention of GCA officials, Venugopal refused to budge. When GCA joint secretary Bharat Dudhiya rushed in to have word with the official, Venugopal relented with a condition — “click the pictures outside the high walls of ground”. Finally, our photographer left the scene wondering what exactly the BCCI means when it talks of promoting women’s cricket.