The Indian Premier League has been the largest house of cricketing entertainment in India ever since its advent. Cricket fans in India are crazy about their home teams in the IPL and they keenly wait for the IPL to kickstart each year.
Indian Cricket League, by all means, is India’s favorite cricket league and perhaps world’s most famous T20 league for it offers the best cricketing action coming from the best cricketers around the world. But what if the 2019 Indian Premier League is not played in India?
AN INDIAN PREMIER LEAGUE TO BE PLAYED ABROAD?
The Indian Premier League may see itself being hosted by a different nation as the 12th edition of the IPL may clash with the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. As per reports, the gala cricket league of India may be hosted by South Africa in 2019. India will have general elections in the year 2019 and hence to avoid the chaos this move can be initiated.
NOT THE FIRST TIME
This is not the first time that the Indian Premier League would be hosted outside India. Even in the year 2009, the IPL was hosted by South Africa as in 2009 too India went into general elections.
In 2014 too the Indian Premier League was hosted by the United Arab Emirates as in 2014 too India had general elections. The league was shifted to the UAE for the first two weeks. A report by the Times Of India claims that the BCCI is pondering upon the shift of venue.
DISAPPOINTMENT FOR FANS
Each year the fans wait in anticipation for the IPL to begin so that they could hit the stands to cheer their favorite teams. But if the venue is shifted to another nation then it may come as a big disappointment to fans as well as the franchise owners who would see their costs rising then.
