Will try our best to have an IPL in 2020: Ganguly

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BCCI President Sourav Ganguly said that the board will try their best to host the IPL in 2020 and in India. The first priority will be to find a window which will be available only if the ICC cancels the T20 World Cup.

“We don’t know yet as we don’t have a decision from ICC regarding the T20 World Cup. We keep hearing different things from the media but unless it is officially told to Board members, you don’t know what’s happening,” Ganguly said on India Today’s show Inspiration.

If the IPL does happen overseas, the BCCI has a lot of factors to take care of and Ganguly elaborated on the same.

“We don’t want the year 2020 to finish without an IPL. Our first priority is India and even if we get 35 to 40 days, we will host it. But we don’t know where. I will put it in this order. Firstly, whether we can (have an IPL) within the time frame as IPL has limited window. Secondly India. If it’s not possible then we are thinking of going out (abroad). But going out where…because if you go out it becomes expensive for everyone — franchises and board. Because of conversion rate and currency exchange rate it becomes expensive. So we are monitoring but as I said we are very keen to host it and got our fingers crossed,” Ganguly added.

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Will try our best to have an IPL in 2020: Ganguly

He also said that it is unlikely that cricket will happen in major cities.

“If it doesn’t happen in India because of COVID then places like Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata and Chennai; these have big teams in IPL but at this point, you can’t put hand to your heart and say cricket will happen in these places. Ahmedabad we were keen to go there. It’s an amazing stadium. I don’t know whether we can go there or not. It’s not easy at the moment to say we are going to host it in India.”

The Former Indian captain believes that it has helped that it is off-season for domestic cricket in India.

“See I want to have it as I said that cricket needs to be back. For us this is actually off season which has actually helped. We finished our season in March just after which IPL was about to start. And we had to cancel IPL which is the most important part of our domestic season. We want IPL to happen. Because life needs to be back to normal. Cricket needs to be back to normal.”

Ganguly remains committed to the IPL as he also remains committed to five-day Tests.

Written by Sarthak Karkhanis. Follow Sarthak on Twitter today.

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