The Indian Premier League (IPL) will return to its initial, pre-COVID-19, home-and-away format from 2023 period, BCCI President Sourav Ganguly has actually communicated to the Board’s associated condition devices.
The IPL has-been held of them costing only a couple of venues because the outbreak of COVID-19 in 2020 since the profitable league unfolded behind close doorways across three venues in UAE — Dubai, Sharjah and Abu Dhabi.
In 2021 also, the competition occured across four venues — Delhi, Ahmedabad, Mumbai and Chennai.
However, using the pandemic in check, the cash-rich league will return to its old format in which each staff plays one home and one away fit.
“The next season of men’s IPL will also go back to the home and away format with all ten teams playing their home matches at their designated venues,” review a Ganguly’s note to condition devices.
IPL Trophy 2022. (FILE)
The note provided all of them a “snapshot” regarding the continuous domestic period.
The BCCI is carrying out a full-fledged domestic period the very first time since 2020 and all multi-day tournaments may also return to the standard home and away format.
Expecting Women’s IPL to begin early the following year
The BCCI normally working to number the inaugural version regarding the much-anticipated Women’s IPL early the following year.
PTI had final thirty days stated that the competition is probably to occur in March following the Women’s T20 World Cup in South Africa.
“The BCCI is currently working on the much-awaited Women’s IPL. We are expecting to start the first season early next year,” Ganguly typed in the page dated September 20.
The Women’s IPL is anticipated to enhance the standard of females’s cricket in India.
Besides the Women’s IPL, the BCCI normally releasing a girls under-15 ODI competition.
“We tend to be happy to introduce a girls U15 One Day competition out of this period. Women’s cricket has actually seen remarkable development around the world and our nationwide staff has-been doing really. This brand new competition can establish a pathway for the girls to perform during the nationwide and worldwide degree,” Ganguly typed.
The inaugural ladies’ under-15 occasion will undoubtedly be played from December 26 to January 12 across five venues — Bangalore, Ranchi, Rajkot, Indore, Raipur, Pune.