The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is planning to replace Champion League T20 with mini IPL.
According to a report in The Indian Express, BCCI’s new venture is likely to include top four IPL teams that make it to the playoffs in the IPL same season.
An official of BCCI said to newspaper, “The planning is on and we will have a meeting on this before this IPL gets over.”
The report in the news daily also said that the new BCCI secretary Anurag Thakur has already informed Cricket Australia and Cricket South Africa, who jointly own the CLT20 along with BCCI, about the Indian board’s desire to scrap the tournament which involved top clubs from all nations.
The official also said, “It (CLT20) was not serving any purpose, people weren’t attracted to it. We are looking at all possibilities of a substitute tournament to replace CLT20 and the initial idea is to have an IPL-2 so that Indian crowds could relate more to it.”
Bureau Report
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