The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has revealed that they have decided to shift the rest of the IPL 2021 games to the UAE in the September-October window. They took the call in their SGM on Saturday. Notably, the league got suspended earlier this month after several players and support staff got infected by the deadly virus inside the bio-bubble.

It is also noteworthy that, the UAE has already successfully hosted the last edition of the cash-rich league. However, along with this, it has also been considered as a backup venue for the upcoming T20 World Cup later this year if the COVID-19 situation in India does not improve in the near future.

Meanwhile, BCCI Secretary Jay Shah has explained the decision why they decided to move the tournament to UAE, citing that the rainfall concerns in September-October in India which might cause a problem during the games as well.

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“See we took this decision to conduct IPL in the UAE because it will be monsoon here and it will not be feasible to hold matches here in September and that is why we are taking IPL to the UAE. We are moving IPL to the UAE only due to weather restrictions as we cannot hold IPL here at the time of monsoon. How can we hold IPL in September in Mumbai or Ahmedabad or any other venues at the time of monsoon? It doesn’t make any sense,” Jay Shah told ANI.

On the other hand, as for the T20 World Cup is concerned, the BCCI revealed that they will ask for more time from the ICC to take a call on it later.

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“And as far as the T20 World Cup is concerned, we will seek time from ICC and decide later. As of now, we are in the mind frame of holding tournaments in the safe zone and we will see how the situation is in the upcoming days. The only thing I can say for now is to seek time from ICC and decide accordingly,” he concluded.