Sports minister Kiren Rijiju gives IPL 2020 Update

Confusion regarding the IPL 2020 as to when it will be staged post the Covid-19 pandemic have reached a new conclusion as sports minister Kiren Rijiju gave his take on the possibility of the occurrence of the league. Here’s IPL 2020 Update from the minister.

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IPL was postponed in March and it is still not clear when the tournament will take place this year. It has been said that the IPL could take place in the September-October window if the T20 World Cup is postponed due to the infectious disease.

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Earlier, Rahul Johri, CEO of BCCI, had commented that there are plans in place to hold the Indian Premier League (IPL) with Indian and international players after the monsoon.

But considering the recent turn of events, the Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju talked in lengths about the future of sports in this post-COVID-19 world. He said that India will not host any international event in the near future. He also pointed out that fans will have to learn to cope up with this unusual situation of sporting activities happening behind closed doors in the post-COVID-19 world.

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“We have been working for quite some time now to resume sporting activities but before that we have to think about practice and training. We are not going to have a tournament kind of situation immediately,” Rijiju said.

“We have to learn to live with the situation where sporting events will have to be carried forward without spectators in stadiums and sports venues,” he added.

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When asked specifically about the 13th edition of IPL which is one of the biggest events hosted by India, Rijiju said it is the government’s prerogative to take a call on conducting any tournament in the country.

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“In India, the government has to take a call and it will take a call depending on the situation. We cannot put health at risk just because we want to have a sporting event.”

“Our focus is fighting Covid-19 and at the same time we will have to work a mechanism to get back to normalcy. It is difficult to confirm dates but I am sure we will have some kind of sporting events this year,” he said.