Sourav Ganguly confirms Asia Cup 2020 has been cancelled a day before council meeting

In a major update on Wednesday, BCCI President Sourav Ganguly has confirmed that upcoming Asia Cup 2020 has been cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic. confirmation comes even before scheduled Asian Cricket Council (ACC) meeting on July 9. tournament has been a tug of war between India and Pakistan after Men in Blue refused to tour neighbours as Pakistan had acquired hosting rights. 

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'IPL important for Indian cricket'

In an Instagram Live Session with Vikrant Gupta, BCCI President confirmed that Asia Cup 2020 has been cancelled. He added that it is difficult to say which will be India's first international series after COVID forced break and highlighted that BCCI is monitoring things monthly. Ganguly also added that if T20 World Cup is cancelled, n BCCI will try everything to st IPL in India as it is important for Indian cricket. 

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Earlier, Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) had rejected any speculation that Asia Cup 2020 will get scrapped in favour of BCCI to organize IPL. In a recent media conference, PCB CEO spoke about prospects of Asia Cup 2020 and any possible cricketing commitments in place of T20 World Cup, should showpiece event gets shifted to a later date. Wasim Khan said that since Pakistan cricket team is set to tour England for three Tests and three T20Is in August, players will return back to country on September 2, i.e. in time for proposed Asia Cup 2020.

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T20 World Cup postponed? 

Meanwhile, Australian media has reported that T20 World Cup has been postponed. and that official anuncement will be made on Friday. sixth edition of T20 cricket's showpiece event was originally scheduled to take place in October-vember this year but according to various reports, tournament might be called off due ongoing global pandemic and might be rescheduled Down Under in 2022. 

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