CPL TWEAKS ITS SCHEDULE FOR IPL.
CPL CHANGES ITS SCHEDULE TO AVOID CLASH WITH REMAINDER OF IPL WHICH WAS SCHEDULED TO START ON AUG 28 BUT NOW RESCHEDULED.
The CPL was originally scheduled to start on August 28 and conclude on September 19. But with the BCCI request, the CPL might start two days early from August 25 to September 25 and this will allow four days of gap between IPL and CPL for the players to travel and get adequate rest before the tournament begins.
However, the West Indies Test tour of Pakistan is set to end by August 24, which makes it tough for the players in the test side to be available from the first game. This could possibly shift the date to August 26 with one day gap in between the tour. The likes of big-hitting Chris Gayle, spinner Sunil Narine and all-rounder DJ Bravo among others are part of different IPL franchisees.
The development would please the BCCI, especially when participation of the Australian players in the IPL is under doubt.
“Both IPL and CPL are important to CWI, to our cricketers and to fans,” Ricky Skerritt, the Cricket West Indies president said.
“CWI’s role was to facilitate arrangements for a non-overlapping and smooth transition from one tournament to the next. Cricket administrators must collaborate if cricket is to survive the risks and costs of COVID-19.”
Skerritt said they would also soon finalise the guidelines for the franchises to be part of the bio-secure bubble.
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