UAE ready to host IPL
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|| CF Correspondent ||
The Emirates Cricket Board has admitted that they had expressed their intention to host the IPL this year.
Mubashshir Usmani, general manager of UAE Cricket board told to an English media that they already successfully hosted 2014 IPL and willing to host the 2020 IPL also.
“In the past, Emirates Cricket Board has successfully hosted IPL matches in UAE. We have a proven record of being hosts as a neutral venue for various bilateral and multi-nation cricket activities in the past,” Mubashshir Usmani was quoted as saying by the newspaper.
“Our state-of-the-art venues and facilities make the Emirates a desired place for hosting all types of cricket.”Usmani said the Emirates Cricket Board had, in fact, offered their venues to England and Wales Cricket Board to complete the English season here as well.”We have come forward and offered our venues to both England and India. We have also hosted matches involving the England team on multiple occasions previously. If our offer is taken up by either of the Boards, then we will be pleased to facilitate the hosting of their matches,” he added.
Due to the coronavirus pandemic cricketing events has all been shattered. The fate of the most lucrative franchise-based cricket tournament Indian Premier League [IPL] has also faced the same fate.
The tournament was scheduled to take place in late March but it has been pushed back and is not having a clash with another big event the ICC Twenty20 World Cup. If the quadrennial tournament got pushed back in next year then the tournament will take place in the October slot.
Earlier Sri Lanka Cricket Board made an offer to host the IPL in their turf if BCCI wants to hold the tournament abroad, now the UAE cricket board has also shown their interest.
