CSK expecting full-fledged IPL 2020

CSK expecting full-fledged IPL 2020: The second-best franchise is hoping to play a full-fledged regular season of the Indian Premier League.

Despite frequent discussions around the future of the 13th season of Indian Premier League, the BCCI hasn’t been able to find a confirmed slot for the cash-rich league after it was suspended in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Considering the ongoing unprecedented global crisis and uncertainty regarding the future, planning any kind of live event is no mean task. It is due to the same reason that IPL 2020 is yet to find a new slot in cricket’s busy calendar.

CSK expecting full-fledged IPL 2020

There is no hiding to the fact that a clear window for IPL 2020 will be available if the ICC T20 World Cup 2020 gets postponed. Considering Cricket Australia’s desire of hosting the world event next year and claiming it to happen this year as “unrealistic“, there are fair chances of IPL replacing the T20 World Cup.

If IPL 2020 manages to acquire the October-November slot, a potential challenge for the BCCI would be to conduct a full-fledged season. If a source close to Chennai Super Kings is to be believed, the franchise is expecting the BCCI to conduct a full season and not make any change in the format.

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“CSK will be okay with whatever decision the BCCI takes but then they wouldn’t much tinkering of the format. They would want a full-fledged IPL,” the source was quoted as saying by The Times of India.

Super Kings, who made a comeback into the tournament after a two-year ban in 2018, won that season before ending as runners-up last year. Having won three titles (all under Mahendra Singh Dhoni), Chennai are the second-best franchise after Mumbai Indians who have won four titles (all under Rohit Sharma).

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Born and brought up in Pathankot, Dixit Bhargav is an engineering and sports management graduate who works as a Cricket Editor at The SportsRush. Having written more than 10,000 articles across more than five years at TSR, his first cricketing memory dates back to 2002 when former India captain Sourav Ganguly had waved his jersey at the historic Lord’s balcony. What followed for an 8-year-old was an instant adulation for both Ganguly and the sport. The optimist in him is waiting for the day when Punjab Kings will win their maiden Indian Premier League title. When not watching cricket, he is mostly found in a cinema hall watching a Punjabi movie.

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