Rest of IPL 2021 to be played between Sep 19-Oct 15: Rajeev Shukla
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NEW DELHI: The rest of the 2021 Indian Chief Group will be played between September 19 and October 15 in the Unified Middle Easterner Emirates (UAE), the Indian cricket board affirmed on Wednesday. "IPL will be held between September 19 and October 15," Rajeev Shukla, VP of the Leading body of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), told IANS on Wednesday.
There are 31 matches to be played, after the competition was suspended on May 4 because of Coronavirus positive cases in the camps of four of the eight establishments. The money rich group was suspended halfway, after the fulfillment of 29 matches.
BCCI VP Rajeev Shukla (TOI Photograph)
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The second 50% of the competition, to be played in UAE, will anyway be excessively near the beginning of the T20 World Cup that starts around mid-October.
Albeit the Global Cricket Board (ICC) has not formally reported the dates for the T20 World Cup that promptly follows the IPL, October 18 is the date being quibbled about in specific quarters.
The T20 World Cup, which will be facilitated by the BCCI, will probably be held in the UAE just as another bay country, conceivably Oman.
The BCCI has until June 28 to tell the ICC whether it is in a situation to have the competition as the Coronavirus pandemic is as yet not over in India.
The October 15 completion leaves just three days between the finish of IPL 2021 and the beginning of the T20 World Cup, on the off chance that it starts on October 18.
The ICC told IANS on Wednesday that there was no standard of a required hole between a homegrown competition and an ICC competition.
"We will deliver the dates and setting of the T20 World Cup just in July. We can't remark on it as of now. Yet, there is no standard on the requirement for a hole in front of an ICC occasion. The ICC needs 10 days to set up the pitch and the ground in front of an occasion. That also is a standard and not a standard," said an ICC official.
"The remainder of it is as yet being worked out between the BCCI and the ICC. We can discuss it just later," the authority said.
Inquired as to whether the hole will be excessively little for players to change from IPL to T20 World Cup, Shukla said the little hole shouldn't be an issue as the underlying period of T20 World is probably going to include non-Test playing countries.
"There ought to be no issue with the hole. The main period of the T20 World Cup will contain qualifiers [according to BCCI's knowledge]. So the principle groups like India and others will get adequate holes," said Shukla, suggesting that the non-Test playing countries could be playing the competition first.
There are 16 groups in the 2021 T20 World Cup, including five non-Test playing countries.
Papua New Guinea, the Netherlands, Namibia, Scotland and Oman are likewise taking an interest other than the 11 Test playing countries that incorporates Afghanistan and Ireland as well.
The underlying matches including more vulnerable groups could be facilitated in Oman.
The ICC, notwithstanding, said they couldn't affirm this since it is as yet being worked out.
"The cycle is as yet being worked out. We can't remark on it," said the ICC official.
On India's forthcoming visit through Sri Lanka in July, involving ODIs and T20Is, Shukla said that it is as yet under works and an official choice would be taken soon.
The telecasters Sony Sports India, notwithstanding, have effectively come out with the timetable expressing that the arrangement will start on July 13 and end on July 25.
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