“We three teams will be badly affected. The teams doing well are the ones who do well at home, win five or six home games and a few away, and that will take you through to the play-offs. Those five teams (Royals Challengers Bangalore, Chennai Super Kings, Kolkata Knight Riders, Delhi Capitals and Mumbai Indians) will have the home advantage, we will have to put up with all away game,” a franchise official said.
The report also states that the three franchises have already taken up the matter formally with BCCI CEO Hemang Amin, outlining their objections separately.
The franchises also intend to lodge a written protest too.
Recently, KT Rama Rao, son of the state’s chief minister, has offered support to the matches in Hyderabad and adding to that was former India captain Mohammed Azharuddin as well, who believes Hyderabad have the wherewithal to host games with the due restrictions in place.
“Open appeal to @BCCI and @IPL office bearers to include Hyderabad as one of the venues for…