CPL 2020 has no Indian broadcaster, Pravin Tambe's participation in doubt too: Report

COVID-19 pandemic has severely affected  lives of people across world. It has brought world to an unprecedented, perhaps war-like standstill that has affected global share markets as well. All sporting events have been affected by pandemic. financial market has also taken a massive hit due to pandemic and Indian sports TV rights market has been shrinking too.

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CPL brocast in India uncertain, travel issues for CPL-bound Indians including Pravin Tambe

Ar league which is being impacted by coronavirus pandemic is  Caribbean Premier League (CPL 2020), which is slated to start from August 18. To begin with, CPL 2020 has still t got an official brocaster for  CPL brocast in India. According to a Ahmedab Mirror report, re is a chance that Dream Sports' FanCode will live-stream games. At same time, if FanCode gets live-streaming rights, Star India or Sony Pictures Sports Network will have to assure CPL 2020 that se matches will t be shown in ir digital platforms, Disney+Hotstar and SonyLIV. re are also reports that Discovery may end up winning rights of CPL brocast in India, which was unlikely a year or two ago.

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re is also a question mark over travel of Indians bound for West Indies. Trinbago Knight Riders (TKR) and St Lucia Zouks are two Indian-owned franchises who are still working travel plans for Indians associated with CPL. Indian spinner Pravin Tambe is set to make his CPL 2020 debut with TKR but his travel plans are still in question. In fact, Pravin Tambe may have to charter a flight to Dubai from where he can fly to Trinid, where CPL will be held from August 18 to September 10. Ar option is to take help of overseas bound repatriation (Vande Bharat) flights.

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Besides Pravin Tambe, re is also doubt on participation of South African players like Imran Tahir, Tabraiz Shamsi, Rassie van der Dussen, Rilee Rossouw, Anrich rtje and Colin Ingram in CPL 2020 as borders of South Africa are closed. To make matters worse, players will have to compulsorily undergo a 14-day isolation period which means y will have to reach Caribbean by August 4.

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