India – Mumbai: On Friday Lalit Modi the Indian Premier League chief cleared doubts about the holding of the tournament. He says the IPL was working on a revised schedule.
Modi Chairman and Commissioner of IPL said "We want to assure all our fans and sponsors that the IPL is on. There are lots of speculations. There is no question of IPL moving to any other country."
Modi, who is also the Vice-President of the Indian Cricket Board, said that the IPL is working on a revised fixture and it will be decided soon. He also said that the IPL will also come up with a security plan next week.
Modi said "We are rescheduling the fixture and we are touch with all the state associations. It is a cumbersome process and can’t be done overnight. We will shortly have a new schedule out." He added that there won’t be any matches on the day of the counting.
"There won’t be a match in a city also on election day. We are working on it and we have also 14 cities available and we have to shortlist eight from them," he said.
After the meeting of the IPL Governing Council Modi said, "We are extremely grateful and thankful to the Home Minister P.Chidambaram who has assured us that security will be provided for IPL matches. We will shortly have a new schedule out. The IPL is on."
Mr. Chidambaram clarified his stand on Friday saying, "I did not say IPL should be postponed. IPL and election schedules are overlapping. I don’t blame the IPL management at all. They finalized their dates earlier. But once the Election Commission announced the election dates on Monday, I saw that the election and IPL schedules were completely overlapping."
Leave Your Comments