England did not belong on Friday the rest of the Indian Premier League while their players returned home from the suspended tournament.
ECB’s general manager Richard Gould promised to help his counterparts at the BCCI “where we can”, after the seven -day hiatus due to the climbing of hostility between India and Pakistan.
Indian cricket chiefs will weigh their options during the coming week, but by offering their full support ”, the ECB has thought of reflection – IPL has already moved abroad, especially twice during the Coide and in 2009 when it moved to South Africa to avoid running during Indian elections.
Some of the 10 English cricket players – whose number includes Jos Buttler, Jofra Archer, Jacob Bethell and Moeen Ali – have been reserved for flights outside India since late Thursday before the official announcement on Friday morning that the 12 remaining games in the competition phase of the competition and the direct elimination matches were postal.
Others planned to take the shortest jump to Dubai and wait to see how the situation is developing in the coming days.
“Other updates concerning the new calendar and the new places in the tournament will be announced in due course after a complete assessment of the situation in consultation with the authorities and the stakeholders concerned,” read a declaration of the IPL.
The Indian Premier League is interrupted for a week in the middle of increasing tensions between India and Pakistan
The director general of the ECB, Richard Gould, promised to help his counterparts in the BCCI ‘where we can’
Jos Buttler is one of the 10 England players who have been reserved on flights outside India since late Thursday before the official announcement
The IPL final is scheduled for May 25 in Kolkata, but to give things seven days will send it in June. Other delays, apparently inevitable, would endanger the summer schedule in England.
However, a spokesperson for the ECB said that they were still expecting the Five Tests from India here from next month “going forward as expected”.
The advantage of resuming the competition at 10 teams here would be that the players of India – who should arrive on British soil during the second week of June – would be on the ground and acclimatized before the first test in Headingley on June 20.