Cricketing Kidda !!!: IPL 7 will be 50-50 in India!!!

Don’t worry readers IPL won’t be for 50 overs but it’s been confirmed that most of the matches will be held in India. Prior the meeting on Wednesday 05th of March 2014, the committee had to decide whether the league can be conducted in India or it had to be shifted to other venue like it did in 2009 in South Africa (partially or completely). The decision has been made, IPL will be conducted in India however complete league is not possible to be held due to election dates are clashing with the dates of IPL-7.

With the dates of the General Elections been finalised, Indian Premier League chairman Ranjib Biswal on Wednesday said matches of seventh edition of the Twenty20 tournament will be 50-50 or 60-70% held in India.

The decision to host "bulk of the matches" in India was taken after a meeting of BCCI bigwigs, including its president N Srinivasan, senior vice-president Rajeev Shukla, secretary Sanjay Patel, Biswal and IPL CEO Sundar Raman at a city hotel. Biswal insisted that since IPL is a domestic event, their main objective is to conduct majority of the matches in India.

"Now that the elections dates have been finalised, we are working towards hosting bulk of the matches in India. Since it is the Indian Premier League we need to accommodate as many matches in India," Biswal told reporters after coming out from a meeting of the IPL governing council at a city hotel.

"Today, we discussed about foreign venues but we haven't decided yet as we need couple of days more to finalise the offshore venue," he said.

The election commission today announced the dates of the 16th Lok Sabha polls, which will be held on nine days from April 7 to May 12 in the highest number of phases so far.
The counting of votes in all the 543 Lok Sabha constituencies involving an 81.4 crore voters will be done on May 16.

According to sources in the BCCI, the Twenty20 event -- the window of which has been kept from April 9 to June 3 -- will be shifted to India after the counting of votes.

"After May 16 IPL 7 matches will be held in India. But South Africa as an alternate venue has effectively been ruled out since South Africa wanted to host the entire tournament," a source said.

Besides South Africa, United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bangladesh were the other countries which are in fray to host part of IPL 7.

Points to be in lieu of deciding the venue:

· Srilanka as a venue had been dropped earlier due to climatic reason as it will rain most of the dates of the t20 league

· South Africa been ruled out as they wanted to host complete tournament and not partial

· Other options left with BCCI are UAE and Bangladesh.

¨ Now, as we all know India had stopped touring to UAE after match fixing saga in 2000 and it will be no different as it will be difficult to track players from 8 different franchises.

¨ On the other hand, Bangladesh pitches will be rough and be exhausted from back to back International tournaments like Asia Cup & ICC Twenty20 World Cup. And how Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) match fixing can be forgotten.

¨ Bangladesh has limited five-seven star hotels too.

It’s upto BCCI and IPL committee how they deal with the conditions and security of the players in context of fairness on the ground and more importantly off the field.