Sri Lanka offers to host IPL 2020 as BCCI suspends the league indefinitely
After Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) suspended the
13th edition of India Premier League (IPL 2020) indefinitely, Sri Lanka board
has offered to host the cash-rich league.
IPL 2020 was slated
to start from March 29 but with the coronavirus outbreak
it was first deferred till April 15 and now with the extension of nation-wide lockdown in India
till May 3, it has been indefinitely suspended.
Apparently,
the Sri Lanka cricket board has written to their Indian counterparts wherein
they have offered to host the IPL.
"Apparently
it will cost the BCCI and its stakeholders more than $500 million to cancel the
IPL," ESPNcricinfo quoted Shammi Silva, Sri Lanka Cricket president.
"So
perhaps they can minimise those losses by hosting the tournament in another
country. If they play it in Sri Lanka, it's easy for Indian audiences to watch
the games on TV. There's precedent for this because they've played the IPL in
South Africa before. We're waiting for the Indian board to respond to our
proposal," he added.
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