Australia’s leading fast-bowler Pat Cummins said the coronavirus lockdown would make it “tight” for the big-money Indian Premier League to ...
Australia’s leading fast-bowler Pat Cummins said the coronavirus lockdown would make it “tight” for the big-money Indian Premier League to go ahead this month as planned, leaving some of cricket’s biggest stars in limbo.
“They obviously haven’t cancelled it or anything like that yet. It’s still a bit of a holding pattern,” the Kolkata Knight Riders-contracted Cummins said, speaking from home isolation near Sydney.
“We’re in contact with our teams every few days. Obviously, everyone’s still really keen for it to all go ahead. But you know the priority is to minimise risk of (coronavirus) spreading,” he said.
Play is scheduled to start on April 15, the day after India’s three-week lockdown is due to end and two months before restrictions on Australians travelling overseas could be lifted.
“I don’t expect anything too soon to happen,” Cummins said, hinting at a possible delay. “I mean obviously the preference would be to be over there playing but... I guess the silver lining is that we do get a bit of a break.”
The start of the IPL season had already been pushed back from March 29 until April 15 “as a precautionary measure” over the coronavirus, the Indian cricket board said.
Even if the tournament does start after April 15, it could be...
