Cricket / IPL will tentatively start in 3rd week of September 10 doubles-headers in three-week window

Zoom News : May 25, 2021, 08:07 PM
Cricket | The remaining 31 matches of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2021 may be held in the UAE in the third week of September. According to the report, the remaining 31 matches of the tournament will be concluded in 3 weeks, including 10 double header matches. Accordingly, the BCCI says that a 3-week window is enough to organize these 31 matches.

According to 'PTI', the BCCI official said that the start date of the league has been given to the stakeholder from 18 to 20 September. September 18 is Saturday, while September 19 is Sunday. Therefore, the board would like the league to start from this date. Similarly, the final can be held on 9 or 10 October. IPL 2021 was postponed indefinitely earlier this month due to more cases in the bio bubble. Before the postponement, 29 matches of the tournament were played.

Let me tell you that for the IPL 2021 event, BCCI requested the ECB to reduce the gap between India and England between the second and third Test, so that the Test series could end a little earlier. But the ECB denied this, saying that the BCCI has not made any such request to them, so this series will now be conducted according to the schedule. The series is to begin from August 4, which will run until September 14. After the series is over, India and England players will simultaneously fly to the UAE from Manchester.

Apart from this, the BCCI has called a special general meeting on May 29 before the ICC meeting to be held on June 1. In this meeting, a decision can be taken regarding the T20 World Cup. The 16-nation T20 World Cup is scheduled to be played in India late in October and its final will be held on 14 November. The ICC's Bio Safety Specialist team was to visit India from 26 April to inspect the sites, but the plan had to be canceled due to travel restrictions imposed by the UAE to India. The T20 World Cup can also be shifted to the UAE, given the state of the Kovid-19 epidemic in India.

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