The UAE will be hosting the IPL 2020 in the window vacated by the International Cricket Council (ICC), said Brijesh Patel, chairman of IPL.
The Board of Cricket in Control for India (BCCI) will try to make the tournament happen in the tentative time slot between September 26 and November 7.
Patel told Gulf News that the rationale behind choosing the UAE once they realised the inevitablity about shifting the tournament abroad in view of the spiralling outbreak of the virus in India. ‘‘The clincher for us was that the UAE have a great infra-structure there – from the venues to the practice facilities. There is a wide selection of hotels and most importantly, they know our expectations as they have hosted the event once in 2014,’’ he said.
The next step for the BCCI, according to Patel, is to host the governing council meeting and take a formal permission from the federal government of India to stage the tournament abroad. “The governing council meeting is expected to take place within a week. There will be discussions on the scheduling of the tournament and we will also look at the operational aspect,” Patel said.
