Indore and Hyderabad have been kept as stand by venues for the IPL in case the COVID situation spirals out of control.
The BCCI remains hopeful of conducting the scheduled IPL matches in Mumbai from April 10-25 despite a massive surge in COVID-19 cases in the city and 10 members of the Wankhede Stadium staff testing positive for the deadly virus.
Indore and Hyderabad have been kept as stand by venues for the IPL in case the COVID situation spirals out of control. Mumbai is scheduled to host 10 games of the cash-rich league.
With in excess of 47,000 cases on Friday, Maharashtra is looking at a potential situation of mini-lockdown. Of equal concern to the organisers is the number of groundstaff at the Wankhede going up from 8 to 10 between Friday evening and Saturday morning.
If that wasn’t enough, around six members of the event management team have also tested positive for COVID-19 and have been sent to isolation.
“Yes, it was 8 positive cases yesterday as far as ground-staff…