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IPL to go back to its previous domestic and away structure in 2023, confirms Sourav Ganguly

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The Indian Premier League (IPL) will go back to its unique, pre-COVID-19, home-and-away structure from the 2023 season, BCCI President Sourav Ganguly has conveyed to the Board’s affiliated state devices.

The IPL has been held at just a few venues for the reason that outbreak of COVID-19 in 2020 because the profitable league spread out at the back of shut doorways throughout 3 venues in UAE — Dubai, Sharjah and Abu Dhabi.

In 2021 too, the match was once held throughout 4 venues — Delhi, Ahmedabad, Mumbai and Chennai.

Alternatively, with the pandemic beneath keep an eye on, the cash-rich league will go back to its previous structure during which every crew performs one domestic and one away fit.

“The following season of fellows’s IPL may even return to the house and away structure with all ten groups enjoying their domestic suits at their designated venues,” learn a Ganguly’s be aware to state devices.

IPL Trophy 2022. (FILE)

The be aware gave them a “snapshot” of the continuing home season.

The BCCI is carrying out a full-fledged home season for the primary time since 2020 and all multi-day tournaments may even go back to the standard domestic and away structure.

Anticipating Ladies’s IPL to to begin early subsequent yr

The BCCI could also be running to host the inaugural version of the much-anticipated Ladies’s IPL early subsequent yr.

PTI had ultimate month reported that the match is prone to happen in March after the Ladies’s T20 International Cup in South Africa.

“The BCCI is lately running at the much-awaited Ladies’s IPL. We expect to begin the primary season early subsequent yr,” Ganguly wrote within the letter dated September 20.

The Ladies’s IPL is anticipated to lift the usual of ladies’s cricket in India.

But even so the the Ladies’s IPL, the BCCI could also be launching a women under-15 ODI match.

“We’re happy to introduce a women U15 One Day match from this season. Ladies’s cricket has noticed extra special expansion internationally and our nationwide crew has been appearing smartly. This new match will create a pathway for our younger women to play on the nationwide and global stage,” Ganguly wrote.

The inaugural girls’s under-15 tournament will probably be performed from December 26 to January 12 throughout 5 venues — Bangalore, Ranchi, Rajkot, Indore, Raipur, Pune.