BCCI ready for resumption of cricket including IPL: Ganguly tells states to get ready

BCCI President Sourav Ganguly is highly optimistic to resume cricket in coming months and have asked various state associations to be ready and prepared to hold future domestic fixtures including Indian Premier League.

'More details over a couple of weeks'

In a letter to various State Associations, a copy of which is with Republic TV, Ganguly said cricketing activities which had come to a complete standstill, "seems that it will take a couple of months to resume training and competitive cricket in India."

Ganguly ted that IPL which was scheduled to start from 29th March 2020, has been indefinitely postponed. " BCCI is working on all possible options to ensure that we are able to st IPL this year, even if it means playing tournament in empty stadiums. fans, franchisees, players, broadcasters, sponsors and all or stakeholders are keenly looking forward to possibility of IPL being hosted this year," he wrote.

BCCI president observed that re has been tremendous interest shown by a lot of players to resume cricket in India. 
"Recently a lot of players, both from India and or countries, participating in IPL have also shown ir keenness on being a part of this year IPL. We are optimistic and BCCI will shortly decide on future course of action on this."

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Ganguly also said that it was time for forward planning and moving ahead. "  BCCI is in process of planning domestic competitions for next cricketing season. We are working on various formats and options in our endeavour to ensure that various domestic tournaments are held, y stay competitive and participation is feasible. BCCI will come up with 
more details on this front over next couple of weeks."

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