{"id":321017,"date":"2020-03-13T10:16:15","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T10:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=321017"},"modified":"2020-03-13T10:16:15","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T10:16:15","slug":"ipl-2020-postponed-till-april-15-due-to-coronavirus-bcci","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/ipl-2020-postponed-till-april-15-due-to-coronavirus-bcci\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL 2020 postponed till April 15 due to Coronavirus: BCCI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-321018 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ipl.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"654\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/ipl.jpg 654w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/ipl-300x238.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/ipl-530x420.jpg 530w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 654px) 100vw, 654px\" \/>The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has decided to postpone the 13th edition of the IPL till April 15 as a precautionary measure against the ongoing Novel Corona Virus (COVID-19) situation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cAnnouncement: #VIVOIPL suspended till 15th April 2020 as a precautionary measure against the ongoing Novel Corona Virus (COVID-19) situation,\u201d IPL tweeted<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;The BCCI is concerned and sensitive about all its stakeholders, and public health in general, and it is taking all necessary steps to ensure that, all people related to IPL including fans have a safe cricketing experience,\u201d ,&#8221; the BCCI secretary Jay Shah said in a statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe BCCI will work closely with the Government of India along with the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and all other relevant Central and State Government departments in this regard,&#8221; he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This came after Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia announced that no IPL matches will take place in the National Capital amid coronavirus outbreak.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has decided to postpone the 13th edition of the IPL till April 15 as a precautionary measure against the ongoing Novel Corona Virus (COVID-19) situation. \u201cAnnouncement: #VIVOIPL suspended till 15th April 2020 as a precautionary measure against the ongoing Novel Corona Virus (COVID-19) situation,\u201d IPL tweeted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":321018,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[2516,1470],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321017"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321019,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321017\/revisions\/321019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/321018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}