{"id":81707,"date":"2020-03-17T11:40:36","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T11:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=81707"},"modified":"2020-03-17T11:40:37","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T11:40:37","slug":"ipl-franchises-get-into-huddle-after-league-postponement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/ipl-franchises-get-into-huddle-after-league-postponement\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL franchises get into huddle after league postponement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>IPL officials held discussions on Monday as a follow-up to a meeting with BCCI two days earlier with the league postponed until April 15 due to the novel coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The cricket board\u2019s decision followed steps taken by the government, including the suspension of visas. Most state governments have placed restrictions on public gathering, including sporting events. \u201cIt was a brief call. We wanted to discuss the safety and security of the players, if we manage to get underway,\u201d said a franchise official. \u201cWe will talk again next week. It was basically stock-taking,\u201d said another franchise head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saturday\u2019s meeting discussed various scenarios. The best was to start the league from April 16, in the same format but with more double headers. The franchises await an update from BCCI on visas for foreign players and support staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BCCI employees at its Mumbai headquarters were on Monday given the option to work from home as concern over the virus hit India\u2019s biggest sports body. \u201cThe office will remain open, but with all domestic and international cricket suspended for now, everyone has been allowed to work from home,\u201d an official said. <\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IPL officials held discussions on Monday as a follow-up to a meeting with BCCI two days earlier with the league postponed until April 15 due to the novel coronavirus pandemic. The cricket board\u2019s decision followed steps taken by the government, including the suspension of visas. Most state governments have placed restrictions on public gathering, including [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":81708,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81709,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81707\/revisions\/81709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}