The Board of Cricket of England and Wales (BCE) would have proposed to welcome the rest of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025. In particular, the season was suspended for a week while tensions between India and Pakistan degenerate. The competition between the Kings of Punjab and the capitals of Delhi on Thursday, which was the 58th match of the 2025 IPL, was canceled halfway for security reasons and the crowd on the site was evacuated. The next day, the Board of Control For Cricket In India (BCCI) postpones the 2025 IPL. The tournament has 16 other games to play, including the playoffs.
While uncertainty is looming on the future of IPL 2025, the Guardian reported that the director general of the ECB, Richard Gould, had already contacted his equivalent to the BCCI concerning the proposal of BCE welcoming the rest of the season.
“If India cannot restart the IPL after this one -week interruption, a suggestion is that England welcomes the remaining devices later in the year,” said the report.
“A Senior BCE source confirmed that this could be possible in September, although adding that no” active discussion “takes place,” he added.
The report also indicates that a similar offer had been made by the ECB when the IPL 2021 was postponed due to the threat of COVID-19. At that time, the tournament was suspended following multiple violations of bio-bubbles and an increase in the cases coated among players and staff in India. However, the season was taken over and completed in the United Arab Emirates around four months later.
Less than a day after having decided to move the Pakistani Super League in Dubai following the conflict with India, Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) turned around and decided to postpone the 10th edition of the T20 League based on the franchise for an indefinite period.
“Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) announces the postponement of the remaining eight games of the HBL PSL X,” PCB said in a statement on Friday.
The PCB made this announcement in a press release on its official website and said it had made the decision due to the increased air attacks from India and following the advice received from the Pakistani Prime Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif.
“The last 24 hours have seen an worsening of the location on the loc, an increased foray into 78 drones and the surface surface -to -surface missiles.
“The decision to report was made in accordance with the advice received from Prime Minister Mian Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif who kept in view of the imprudent assault of India which degenerated to a point where national attention and feelings are rightly concentrated on the courageous efforts of the Pakistan armed forces which lifts the PCB.
It is quite another question that India only answered the terrorist attack on the innocents in Pahalgam, which cost 26 lives, and also targeted terrorist and military facilities through the border.
(With the IANS inputs)
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