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BCCI president Sourav Ganguly makes a Big statement about hosting the remaining matches of IPL 2021 in India
BCCI president Sourav Ganguly has categorically ruled out the possibility of the rest of the 14th edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) taking place in India. The IPL 2021 was suspended on May 4 after the cases started to emerge inside the bio-bubble and slowly not one, not two, four teams got affected due to the COVID-19.
Indian players have two windows available to play the rest of the IPL, one in July after the World Test Championship (WTC) final and one in September after the Englalnbnd series and before the ICC T20 World Cup, however, the first one was also ruled out as Ganguly revealed that India will be playing a limited-overs series in Sri Lanka before heading back to England.
Speaking to Sportstar, Ganguly said that it was easier to say in hindsight that the tournament should have been postponed earlier as the decision came when India was seeing daily cases over 4 Lakh.
However, expressing his opinion about India’s tour of Sri Lanka, Ganguly has confirmed that big names such as the captain Virat Kohli and his deputy Rohit Sharma will not be part of the tour. Both Kohli and Rohit will be engaged in a marquee five-match Test series in England.
According to the ICC's Future Tours Program (FTP), India is scheduled to play three T20Is in Sri Lanka in July. Last year, India's tour was canceled due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
