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IPL 2025’s Indian and overseas players have already started to head back home despite BCCI’s official statement saying that the league was suspended for ‘one week’.
Indian and overseas players of IPL 2025 have started to go home after the league’s suspension (BCCI)
IPL 2025’s participating players have all started to head back to their homes, despite the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI)’s statement that the league is, for now, being suspended for one week.
According to The Times of India, some overseas players were in ‘a lot of panic’ after the match between the Punjab Kings and Delhi Capitals at the HPCA stadium in Dharamsala on Thursday was called off midway through due to security concerns. On Friday, the BCCI announced the suspension of the league and is now busy helping the players — including by assisting them with their flights — return home.
“They will be heading back home, we will help with all the logistics but every foreign player and members of the support staff will be headed back to their respective country. Depending on what is decided in the future, a call will be taken on them returning for the league. But as now, they will be headed back home,” the newspaper cited an IPL official as saying.
“All players will be headed back home, including the overseas players,” a team’s official was quoted as saying in the report.
While some teams like the Mumbai Indians will come to Mumbai before dispersing, others like the Royal Challengers Bengaluru, who are in Lucknow, will go their separate ways from their current locations.
“The BCCI has decided to suspend the remainder of the ongoing IPL with immediate effect for one week,” BCCI secretary Devajit Saikia stated in a press release on Friday. “Further updates regarding the new schedule and venues of the tournament will be announced in due course after a comprehensive assessment of the situation in consultation with relevant authorities and stakeholders.
“At this critical juncture, the BCCI stands firmly with the nation. We express our solidarity with the Government of India, the Armed Forces and the people of our country. The Board salutes the bravery, courage, and selfless service of our armed forces, whose heroic efforts under Operation Sindoor continue to protect and inspire the nation, as they lead a resolute response to the recent terrorist attack and the unwarranted aggression by Pakistan’s armed forces,” the statement added.
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