BCCI to suffer a huge loss of close to INR 2500 crore after the suspension of IPL: Reports

The 14^th edition of cash-rich league has been halted now due to the rise in COVID-19 cases inside the bio bubble and if reports are to believed which was later confirmed by the board president that they will be suffering a huge loss of INR 2500 crore.

However, there is a huge speculation, that the world’s richest cricket board is looking to conduct the remaining matches of IPL 2021 in the month of September.

BCCI is on the radar that they decided to conduct IPL in India rather than conducting it in UAE unlike last year to which board president Sourav Ganguly said “ When we thought initially to conduct the IPL the cases were pretty less unlike the one that we see now”.

Former India captain admitted that there is lot of shuffling that needs to be done in order to conduct the remaining matches of the tournament this year.

“There has got to be a lot of shuffling. Only a day has passed since we suspended the IPL. We have to speak to other boards and see if a window can be made available before the T20 World Cup. A lot of things are involved and we will slowly start working on them.

“If we fail to complete the IPL, the loss will be close to INR 2500 crore (USD 340 million approx). That is going by early estimates,” he said.

Ganguly assured that no protocols were breached by the players, support staff and other contingent members of IPL but still, cases were detected inside bio bubble is a thing we need to become cautious for future.

“I really don’t know what led to this situation inside the biosecurity bubble. We will have to do a post-mortem and look into the reasons behind this.

“But traveling could have been an issue. Last year [IPL 2020] in the UAE, everything was restricted to three venues and within a limited area. There was no air travel involved. Here we had six different venues,” the former India cricketer further added.