Indian government to decide fate of IPL, not cricket board eNCA
this year would be taken by the government, not the Indian cricket board, and would be based on how well the country has contained the novel coronavirus.Indian cricket board indefinitely suspends lucrative T20 IPL
"In India the government has to take a call and it will be depending on the situation of the pandemic, how we progress as a nation," Rijiju told the India Today television channel. "We can't put health of the nation at risk just because we want sporting events to be held. Our focus is fighting COVID-19."The BCCI, the richest cricket body in the world, had said it would consider staging the lucrative IPL in October/November if the T20 World Cup, which is scheduled to take place in Australia during those months, did not go ahead.
The IPL is worth almost $530-million to the BCCI and attracts the best international and Indian cricketers. It was scheduled to start at the end of March but was indefinitely postponed because of the pandemic.
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